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Giuseppe Campani Inventor Romae An Uncommon Genius
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Book Synopsis Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius by : Silvio Bedini
Download or read book Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius written by Silvio Bedini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius offers an account of the life and creations of the most talented maker of optic lenses, silent clocks and projector clocks of the second half of the seventeenth century but also provides you with unique insights into the scientific and technological landscape of baroque Rome and its links to a broader European scene.
Book Synopsis The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher by : Roberto Buonanno
Download or read book The Stars of Galileo Galilei and the Universal Knowledge of Athanasius Kircher written by Roberto Buonanno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author documents Kircher’s often intuitive work in many areas, including translating the hieroglyphs, developing sundials, and inventing the magic lantern, and explains how Kircher was a forerunner of Darwin in suggesting that animal species evolve. Galileo’s work on scales, telescopes, and sun spots is mapped and discussed, and care is taken to place his discoveries within their cultural environment. While Galileo is without doubt the “winner” in the comparison with Kircher, the latter achieved extraordinary insights by unconventional means. For all Galileo’s fine work, the author believes that scientists do need to regain the power of dreaming, vindicating Kirchner’s view.
Book Synopsis Apolline Project Vol. 1 by : Girolamo De Simone
Download or read book Apolline Project Vol. 1 written by Girolamo De Simone and published by Girolamo F. De Simone. This book was released on 2009 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ave Roma Immortalis by : Francis Marion Crawford
Download or read book Ave Roma Immortalis written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by New York Macmillan [1899]. This book was released on 1899 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Printing by : E. C. Bigmore
Download or read book A Bibliography of Printing written by E. C. Bigmore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume bibliography of printing, published 1880-6, quickly became a classic reference work, and is still of value today.
Book Synopsis A Classical Tour Through Italy and Sicily by : Sir Richard Colt Hoare
Download or read book A Classical Tour Through Italy and Sicily written by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire by : Cristiano Zanetti
Download or read book Janello Torriani and the Spanish Empire written by Cristiano Zanetti and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janello Torriani, or Juanelo Turriano (Cremona, ca. 1500 – Toledo, 1585), is the greatest––though forgotten–– among Renaissance inventors and constructors of machines. His story is foundational for the understanding of the roots of the Scientific and the Industrial Revolutions.
Book Synopsis Imago Cosmi by : Daniele L. R. Marini
Download or read book Imago Cosmi written by Daniele L. R. Marini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on an exploration of the Cosmos, from Mesopotamia and Egypt to China; it unveils the fascinating development of astronomy and mathematics. After an overview of the origins of these subjects, highlighting the contributions of Greek astronomers, the Arab culture, and Copernicus' solar system model, the book delves into the revolutionary work of Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton, leading to a comprehensive understanding of the solar system. Special attention is given to the instruments used by ancient astronomers, including the most important astronomical clocks and planetary machines. In light of this, the author examines Kepler's almost unknown design of a planetary machine and offers an interpretation using virtual reality techniques. The book also highlights the Chinese view of the Cosmos and the evolution of its astronomy and astronomical machines, offering readers a unique perspective and insight into the relationship between astronomy and technology in different cultures. Finally, the author provides a practical approach to understanding the construction and mechanics of astronomical machines, exploring the process of designing and manufacturing a Tellurium. The reading is enriched with short videos of the Tellurium, along with a translation of the description of the planetary machine by Christiaan Huygens. In addition, it provides a unique glimpse into the religious influences on astronomical studies during the mid-1700s through the translation of Johann Albrecht Bengel's book Cyclus. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of science and technology. It appeals to astronomers, mathematicians, physicists, and historians of science and technology alike, providing fascinating descriptions and insightful analysis of the vision of the Cosmos from its earliest conceptions to the present day.
Book Synopsis The Pope's Elephant by : Silvio A. Bedini
Download or read book The Pope's Elephant written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by Penguin Mass Market. This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the court of Pope Leo X in sixteenth-century Rome, and discusses the popularity of the Pope's white elephant, Hanno, a gift from the king of Portugal.
Download or read book The Light of Nature written by J.D. North and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays is meant as a tribute to Alistair Crombie by some of those who have studied with him. The occasion of its publication is his seven tieth birthday - 4 November 1985. Its contents are a reflection - or so it is hoped - of his own interests, and they indicate at the same time his influence on subjects he has pursued for some forty years. Born in Brisbane, Australia, Alistair Cameron Crombie took a first degree in zoology at the University of Melbourne in 1938, after which he moved to Je sus College, Cambridge. There he took a doctorate in the same subject (with a dissertation on population dynamics - foreshadowing a later interest in the history of Darwinism) in 1942. By this time he had taken up a research position with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Cambridge Zoological La boratory, a position he left in 1946, when he moved to a lectureship in the his tory and philosophy of science at University College, London. H. G. Andrewa ka and L. C. Birch, in a survey of the history of insect ecology (R. F. Smith, et al. , History of Entomology, 1973), recognise the importance of the works of Crombie (with which they couple the earlier work of Gause) as the principal sti mulus for the great interest taken in interspecific competition in the mid 194Os.
Book Synopsis The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture by : K. A. E. Enenkel
Download or read book The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture written by K. A. E. Enenkel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the various strategies of construing appropriate pasts in scholarship, literature, art, architecture and literature, in order to create "national", regional or local identities, in late medieval and early modern Europe.
Book Synopsis The "Acta Eruditorum" Under the Editorship of Otto Mencke (1644-1707) by : A. H. Laeven
Download or read book The "Acta Eruditorum" Under the Editorship of Otto Mencke (1644-1707) written by A. H. Laeven and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies by : Manuela D’Amore
Download or read book The Royal Society and the Discovery of the Two Sicilies written by Manuela D’Amore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates a lesser-known aspect of the British history of travel in the Enlightenment: that of the Royal Society’s special contribution to the “discovery” of the south of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. By exploring primary source journal entries of philosophy and travel, the book provides evidence of how the Society helped raise the Fellows’ curiosity about the Mediterranean and encouraged travel to the region by promoting cultural events there and establishing fruitful relations with major Italian academic institutions. They were especially devoted to revealing the natural and artistic riches of the Bourbon Kingdom from 1738 to 1780, during which the Roman city of Herculaneum was discovered and Vesuvius and Etna were actively eruptive. Through these examples, the book draws attention to the role that the Royal Society played in establishing cultural networks in Italy and beyond. Tracing a complex path starting in Restoration times, this new insight into discourse on learned travel contributes to a more challenging vision of Anglo-Italian relations in the Enlightenment.
Book Synopsis The Craftsman's Handbook by : Cennino Cennini
Download or read book The Craftsman's Handbook written by Cennino Cennini and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteenth-century handbook, written by a working artist of the day, reveals techniques of the masters in drawing, oil painting, frescoes, panel painting, gilding, casting, more. Direct link to artists of Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis The History of the Barometer by : W. E. Knowles Middleton
Download or read book The History of the Barometer written by W. E. Knowles Middleton and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1997 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was marked by 6 important inventions that made possible the acceleration of man's scientific understanding. The barometer enabled accurate air pressure measurements to be made, and this reference work examines its history and development.
Book Synopsis Science and Instruments in Seventeenth-century Italy by : Silvio A. Bedini
Download or read book Science and Instruments in Seventeenth-century Italy written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten articles published over the course of 30 years focus on the role of the mathematical practitioners who made the early optical instruments of 17th-century Italy and the men who used them for scientific discovery. They discuss the instruments of Galileo, Giuseppe Campini, and Bernardo Facini, and the Vatican's astronomical paintings, science collections, and compound microscopes. Also included is a translation of a brief manuscript from the period describing how to make a wooden tube for a telescope; it is anonymous but may be by Campini. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Pulse of Time by : Silvio A. Bedini
Download or read book The Pulse of Time written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by Olschki. This book was released on 1991 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
