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Download or read book Great Books of the western world written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: Hippocrates. Galen written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Title Catalog.
Author : Bruce Cole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671747282
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Art of the Western World written by Bruce Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-12-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fresh insight into what the great works meant when they were created and why they appeal to us now, here is a vivid tour of painting, sculpture, and architecture, past and present. "Illuminating . . . a notable accomplishment".--The New York Times. Illustrated.
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Great Books of the Western World written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: The great conversation written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive set of classic books includes the most influential works of literature, philosophy, and science, in the history of the West.
Author : Max Caspar
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486151751
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Kepler written by Max Caspar and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive biography covers Kepler's scientific accomplishments — laws of planetary motion, work with calculus, optics, more — plus public and personal life, more. Introduction and Notes by Owen Gingerich.
Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins written by Robert Maynard Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Great Books of the Western World: The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Isacoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703306
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Temperament written by Stuart Isacoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the relationship between the notes of the musical scale was seen as a key to the very nature of the universe. In this engaging and accessible account, Stuart Isacoff leads us through the battles over that scale, placing them in the context of quarrels in the worlds of art, philosophy, religion, politics and science. The contentious adoption of the modern tuning system known as equal temperament called into question beliefs that had lasted nearly two millenia–and also made possible the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and all who followed. Filled with original insights, fascinating anecdotes, and portraits of some of the greatest geniuses of all time, Temperament is that rare book that will delight the novice and expert alike.
Author : Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191579459
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book World Music: A Very Short Introduction written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. World Music is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories. The book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians - such as Bob Marley, Bartok, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - and attempts to account for world music's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Robert D. Huerta
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0838756069
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Vermeer and Plato written by Robert D. Huerta and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are thirty-six illustrations."--Jacket.
Author : Ross W. Duffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393075648
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (and Why You Should Care) written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-10-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and genuinely accessible guide....Educating, enjoyable, and delightfully unscary."—Classical Music What if Bach and Mozart heard richer, more dramatic chords than we hear in music today? What sonorities and moods have we lost in playing music in "equal temperament"—the equal division of the octave into twelve notes that has become our standard tuning method? Thanks to How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony, "we may soon be able to hear for ourselves what Beethoven really meant when he called B minor 'black'" (Wall Street Journal).In this "comprehensive plea for more variety in tuning methods" (Kirkus Reviews), Ross W. Duffin presents "a serious and well-argued case" (Goldberg Magazine) that "should make any contemporary musician think differently about tuning" (Saturday Guardian). Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.
Author : Robert B. Edgerton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451602324
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Sick Societies written by Robert B. Edgerton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.
Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313027587
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Planetary Motions written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-07-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students in an introductory physics class learn a variety of different, and seemingly unconnected, concepts. Gravity, the laws of motion, forces and fields, the mathematical nature of the science - all of these are ideas that play a central role in understanding physics. And one thing that connects all of these physical concepts is the impetus the great scientists of the past had to develop them - the desire to understand the motion of the planets of the solar system. This desire led to the revolutionary work of Copernicus and Galileo, Kepler and Newton. And their work forever altered how science is practiced and understood.
Author : Andrew James Hicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190658207
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Composing the World written by Andrew James Hicks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking in hand the current "discovery" that we can listen to the cosmos, Andrew Hicks argues that sound-and the harmonious coordination of sounds, sources, and listeners-has always been an integral part of the history of studying the cosmos. In Composing the World, Hicks presents a narrative tour through medieval Platonic cosmology with reflections on important philosophical movements along the way. The book will resonate with a variety of readers, and it encourages us to rethink the role of music and sound within our greater understanding of the universe.
Author : Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241360641
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)
Download or read book The Dawn of Modern Cosmology written by Nicolaus Copernicus and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history. Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman
Author : Tot Taylor
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783523212
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)
Download or read book The Story of John Nightly written by Tot Taylor and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I loved the creativity, the unpredictability, its dazzling coverage of so many ideas' Rob Cowan 'Superb . . . An original character and an original book' David Quantick, Record Collector Can John Nightly be brought back to life again? John Nightly (b. 1948) finds his dimension in pop music, the art form of his time. His solo album becomes one of 1970's bestselling records – but success turns out to have side effects. Supermaxed in LA after a dazzling career, John renounces his gift, denying music and his very being, until he is rediscovered in Cornwall thirty years later by a teenage saviour dude, who persuades him to restore and complete his quasi-proto-multimedia eco-Mass, the Mink Bungalow Requiem. This epic novel mixes real and imagined lives in the tale of a young singer-songwriter, to tell a story about creativity at the highest level – the level of genius.
