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Book Synopsis Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy by : Richard L. Thompson
Download or read book Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy written by Richard L. Thompson and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries of the fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam have long puzzled students of Vedic cosmography and astronomy. Confronted with a description of the universe that seems much at variance with the information provided by our senses and standard astronomical calculations, foreign observers and even Indian commentators from the middle ages up to the present have concluded that the Bhagavatam`s account elaborated in other Puranas must be mythological. On the other hand the same persons have been much impressed with vedic astronomical treatises the jyotisasastras which provide remarkably accurate measurements of the solar system.
Book Synopsis Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece by : Renaud Gagné
Download or read book Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds slowly.
Book Synopsis The Cosmography of Paradise by : Alessandro Scafi
Download or read book The Cosmography of Paradise written by Alessandro Scafi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe considers the general theme of paradise from various comparative perspectives. The focus has been on the way the relationship between 'the other world' and the structure of the whole cosmos has been viewed in different ages and traditions around the Mediterranean basin, spanning from the ancient Near East to medieval Europe. Scholars coming from different fields discuss in this volume the various ways the relationship between paradise and the general features of the universe has been viewed within their own field of work. The historical formation of the notion of paradise, defined as a perfect state beyond time and space, relied heavily upon a variety of temporally and culturally conditioned concepts of the physical cosmos as a finite and imperfect realm. It is precisely the emphasis on cosmography that allows the discussion of several traditions: Sumerian, ancient Iranian, Greek, Jewish, early Christian, Gnostic, Byzantine, Islamic, Scandinavian, and Latin Western.
Book Synopsis Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece by : Renaud Gagné
Download or read book Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece written by Renaud Gagné and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the extraordinary record of ancient Greek thought on Hyperborea as a case study of cosmography and anthropological philology.
Book Synopsis An Ottoman Cosmography by : Kātib Çelebi
Download or read book An Ottoman Cosmography written by Kātib Çelebi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cihānnümā is a summa of the Islamic geographical tradition and the first Muslim adaptation of the early modern atlas as the scientific representation of the world. Our translation of Müteferriḳa’s printed edition takes full account of Kātib Çelebi’s original manuscript.
Book Synopsis Historiography | Cosmography by : Ishwar Dayal Gaur
Download or read book Historiography | Cosmography written by Ishwar Dayal Gaur and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to study Panjab historiography from the viewpoint of cosmography, the concept derived from the cosmological paradigm which Professor Harjeet Singh Gill, an eminent semiotician, developed in his oeuvre. Since its introduction in the colonial Panjab, the discipline of historiography subdued the indigenous craft of history writing such as katha, qissa, janamsakhi, and jangnama wherein what Professor Gill has conceptualized as “the dialectic of representation and transcendence” remained ever active. This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Book Synopsis Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution by : David Barrado Navascués
Download or read book Cosmography in the Age of Discovery and the Scientific Revolution written by David Barrado Navascués and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
Book Synopsis The Dove; Or, Passages of Cosmography by : Richard Zouch
Download or read book The Dove; Or, Passages of Cosmography written by Richard Zouch and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cosmography and Geography of Africa by : Leo Africanus
Download or read book The Cosmography and Geography of Africa written by Leo Africanus and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa. The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals. Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it. Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff
Download or read book Cosmographie written by Peter Heylyn and published by Thoemmes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Heylyn's Cosmographie is the most comprehensive description of the known world written in 17th-century England. Produced in the turmoil of the English Civil War, Cosmographie's significance in English intellectual life far outlasts its origins. Composed by combing relevant texts for information the work is ordered according to a spatial framework of continents and nations. With its seductive prose style and enlivened subject matter, generations of scholars have found in this work an incomparable source of information. A high proportion of scholars and gentlemen in the late 17th and early 18th centuries perused Cosmographie. This popularity continued throughout the 20th century and as an acknowledged classic of geographical writing Cosmographie is an text for modern scholars across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, who seek to understand Stuart England and more generally the intellectual culture of the late Renaissance.
Book Synopsis The Dove; Or Passages of Cosmography; a Poem ... Reprinted ..., with a Memoir and Notes Collected and Arranged by R. Walker by : Richard ZOUCH
Download or read book The Dove; Or Passages of Cosmography; a Poem ... Reprinted ..., with a Memoir and Notes Collected and Arranged by R. Walker written by Richard ZOUCH and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Secret Science by : María M. Portuondo
Download or read book Secret Science written by María M. Portuondo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular were charged with turning their observations of the New World into a body of knowledge that could be used for governing the largest empire the world had ever known. As María M. Portuondo here shows, this cosmographic knowledge had considerable strategic, defensive, and monetary value that royal scientists were charged with safeguarding from foreign and internal enemies. Cosmography was thus a secret science, but despite the limited dissemination of this body of knowledge, royal cosmographers applied alternative epistemologies and new methodologies that changed the discipline, and, in the process, how Europeans understood the natural world.
Author :R. Buckminster Fuller Publisher :The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller ISBN 13 :0025418505 Total Pages :287 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (254 download)
Book Synopsis Cosmography by : R. Buckminster Fuller
Download or read book Cosmography written by R. Buckminster Fuller and published by The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller. This book was released on 1992 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the concept of synergetics and its relationship with politics and history to illustrate the crucial link between humanity and nature
Download or read book Nebulae written by Dana Wilde and published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nebulae: A Backyard Cosmography peers into the vast elsewheres of the planets, stars and galaxies, bringing astronomical facts into focus with everyday experience. These writings provide accessible, entertaining, and thought-provoking interfaces between the commonplace and the cosmos.
Book Synopsis The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister by : Aethicus Ister
Download or read book The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister written by Aethicus Ister and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most skilful forgeries of the Middle Ages, the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister has puzzled scholars for over 150 years, not least because of its challenging Latinity. Written at a western centre in the first part of the eighth century, the work purports to be a heavily censored epitome made by St. Jerome of a cosmography by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. This writer, who is otherwise unknown, describes a flat-earth universe resembling that of Cosmas Indicopleustes, then gives an eye-witness account of his travels to the isles of the gentiles in the North and East. There he encounters not only savage races, but also monsters, Amazons, and other figures of mythology. Alexander the Great also figures prominently by immuring the unclean races, who will escape to ravage the world at the coming of the Anti-Christ. Not all is fiction. The author's observations on volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis will interest the scientific reader. The last part deals in coded fashion with contemporary events in the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, and may provide a clue to the author's origins. The present volume offers a new critical text, the first translation, and a detailed commentary covering every aspect of the work.
Book Synopsis Cosmography and Chaography by : Patricia Lynn Bornhofen
Download or read book Cosmography and Chaography written by Patricia Lynn Bornhofen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Cosmography of Man by : Theresa Schön
Download or read book A Cosmography of Man written by Theresa Schön and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily on the representation of contemporary manners. In shaping such behavioural images, the authors made use of the satirical character sketch. Their character sketches (re)create social interactions between fictionalised representatives of moral types of men and women located in contemporary London. This study examines how Addison and Steele employed the character sketch to create a ‘cosmography’ of (wo)man by actively engaging with the observational approaches of contemporary naturalists. Addison and Steele adapted distinctly empirical methods (e.g. induction and deduction, note taking, repeated and collective observation) and appropriated the (medico-legal) case study to communicate and disseminate socio-moral knowledge. At the same time, the character sketch served them as a means to establish a taxonomic order of the socio-moral knowledge conveyed in the texts. The study sheds new light on the literary techniques and the methodological frameworks of two journals essentially associated with the British - and the European - Enlightenment.
