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Author : David Milne-Home
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Essay on Comets written by David Milne-Home and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : afterwards MILNE HOME MILNE (F.R.S.E., David)
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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Essay on Comets, etc written by afterwards MILNE HOME MILNE (F.R.S.E., David) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Schechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227675
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Author : Charles Burney
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book An Essay Towards a History of the Principal Comets that Have Appeared Since the Year 1742 written by Charles Burney and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Bayle
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791492737
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet written by Pierre Bayle and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I tremble when I recall the terrible appearance [the comet] had on Saturday evening in the clear sky, when it was observed by everybody with inexpressible astonishment. It seemed as though the heavens were burning, or as if the very air was on fire...[F]rom this little star stretched out such a wonderfully long tail that even an intellectual man was overcome with trembling; one's hair stood on end as this uncommon, terrible, and indescribable tail came into view...O wonderful almighty God! The heavens show thy might and the earth thy handiwork!" — Eyewitness account of a comet which appeared over Europe on December 24, 1680 The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print—the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment.
Author : John Winthrop
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : E.C. Patterson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400968396
Total Pages : 271 pages
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Download or read book Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840 written by E.C. Patterson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513298348
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Comet written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comet (1920) is a science fiction story by W. E. B. Du Bois. Written while the author was using his role at The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, to publish emerging black artists of the Harlem Renaissance, The Comet is a pioneering work of speculative fiction which imagines a catastrophic event not only decimating New York City, but bringing an abrupt end to white supremacy. “How silent the street was! Not a soul was stirring, and yet it was high-noon—Wall Street? Broadway? He glanced almost wildly up and down, then across the street, and as he looked, a sickening horror froze in his limbs.” Sent to the vault to retrieve some old records, bank messenger Jim Davis emerges to find a city descended into chaos. A comet has passed overhead, spewing toxic fumes into the atmosphere. All of lower Manhattan seems frozen in time. It takes him a few moments to see the bodies, piled into doorways and strewn about the eerily quiet streets. When he comes to his senses, he finds a wealthy woman asking for help. Soon, it becomes clear that they could very well be the last living people in the planet, that the fate of civilization depends on their ability to come together, not as black and white, but as two human beings. But how far will this acknowledgment take them? With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Comet is a classic work of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Reference Lists written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : James Hammond Trumbull
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Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the American library of ... George Brinley [by J.H. Trumbull]. (Special ed.). written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Brinley
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley of Hartford, Conn written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Brinley
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Download or read book Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley written by George Brinley and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Classified Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets on Modern Astronomy; the Literature Since 1800 written by William Wesley & Son and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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