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Ingenious Pursuits

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720017
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Ingenious Pursuits written by Lisa Jardine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.

Worldly Goods

Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318661
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Worldly Goods written by Lisa Jardine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 184540274X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Utility written by Anthony Kenny and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume on the nature, ingredients, causes and consequences of human happiness by the father and son team of Anthony and Charles Kenny.

The Prose of Things

Author : Cynthia Sundberg Wall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622502X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Prose of Things written by Cynthia Sundberg Wall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object—a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.

Independence Hall in American Memory

Author : Charlene Mires
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812222822
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Independence Hall in American Memory written by Charlene Mires and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book I have long awaited, one that tells the life of a single building so as to illuminate American history from almost every angle—cultural, social, and political."—Mary Ryan, author of Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century

Companion to the Kaleidoscope... Illustrated with Some Useful Diagrams, on Copper Plate

Author : T. P.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Companion to the Kaleidoscope... Illustrated with Some Useful Diagrams, on Copper Plate written by T. P. and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408103540
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide written by Nick Rennison and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with navigation features to lead you on a rich journey through some the best literature to grace our shelves. This greatly expanded edition includes the latest contemporary authors and landmark novels, an expanded non-fiction section, a timeline setting historical events against literary milestones, prize-winner and book club lists. An accessible and easy-to-read guide that no serious book lover should be without. "The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing." Robert McCrum, The Observer

Freemasonry Birth Mod Science Pb

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610595476
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Freemasonry Birth Mod Science Pb written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

Author : Gerhild Scholz Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351873539
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany written by Gerhild Scholz Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth century. By relating these individual works to a number of contemporaneous writings, Williams shows how Praetorius constructed a panorama in print in which wonders, the occult, the emerging scientific way of thinking, family and social mores are recurrent themes. Included in Praetorius's portrait of the mid-seventeenth-century are discussions of Paracelsus's scientific theories and practice; early modern German theories on witchcraft and demonology and their applications in the seventeenth century. Furthermore, we read about the early modern beginnings of ethnography, anthropology, and physical geography; gender theory, early modern and contemporary notions of intellectual property, and competing and sometimes conflicting early modern scientific and theological explanations of natural anomalies. Moreover, throughout his work and certainly in those texts chosen for this study, Praetorius appears before us as an assiduous reporter of contemporary European and pan-European events and scientific discoveries, a critic of common superstitions, as much a believer in occult causes and signs and in God's communication with His people. In his writings, in his way of telling, he offers strategies by which to comprehend the political, social, and intellectual uncertainties of his century and, in so doing, identifies ways to confront the diverse interpretive authorities and the varieties of structures of knowledge that interacted and conflicted with each other in the public arena of knowing.

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030788516X
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition written by Bill Bryson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge yet: to understand—and, if possible, answer—the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining.

The Basset Table

Author : Susanna Centlivre
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551116782
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Basset Table written by Susanna Centlivre and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Basset Table follows the fortunes of Lady Reveller, who runs a table where her friends play the card game basset, and her struggle to avoid marrying Lord Worthy. Meanwhile, Lady Reveller’s cousin, Valeria, spends her time conducting scientific experiments and dissections, but her father intends to marry her off to the bluff sea-captain Hearty. How can Lady Reveller be persuaded to forego the delights of gambling? And how can Valeria avoid an unwanted marriage? This witty play paints a seductive picture of the thrills of the Restoration gaming table and challenges contemporary stereotypes of the learned lady. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include materials on female education, gambling, and writing for the stage, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critical writing on Centlivre and The Basset Table.

The Scientific Revolution

Author : Caroline Kennon
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1534563881
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Revolution written by Caroline Kennon and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scientific Revolution is known as the time period when modern science was born. Without the people who made discoveries, theories, and inventions during this time, the world as we know it today would not exist. Readers are introduced to the figures, discoveries, and events that defined the Scientific Revolution through annotated quotes from historians and historical documents, primary sources, fact-filled sidebars, and a detailed timeline. As readers explore this essential social studies topic, they also learn the important connections that can be made between history and STEM, broadening their view of each topic.

The Accommodated Animal

Author : Laurie Shannon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924165
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Accommodated Animal written by Laurie Shannon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastifss, and hell-hounds. But he used the word 'animal' only eight times in his work - which was typical for the 16th century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in this book, the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the 17th century, with Descartes's famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: 'I think, therefore I am'.

Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture

Author : Mark R. Cruvellier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558099
Total Pages : 1504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Model Perspectives: Structure, Architecture and Culture written by Mark R. Cruvellier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a unique collection of various perspectives on the relationship between structures and the forms and spaces of architecture. As such it provides students and professionals alike with an essential sourcebook that can be mined for visual inspiration as well as for textually rich and authoritative insight into the links between structure, architecture, and cultural context. The chapters address fundamental structural elements and systems: columns, walls, beams, trusses, frames, tensile structures, arches, domes and shells. Each chapter is subdivided into two parts: • The essays – introduce the chapters with the reprinting of a curated set of essays and excerpts by various authors that uniquely address how particular structural elements or systems relate in essential fashion to architectural design concepts. • The model studies – physical models of the overall structural systems of several notable contemporary buildings from Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia are illustrated with large photographs, detail close-ups, and views of their external forms and internal spaces that establish the exceptional qualities of these projects in connecting structural form to architectural design objectives. Mosaic layouts complete the chapters with a collection of photographs of yet more models whose particular details and unique features serve to extend the visual repertoire of the structural type being considered. The combination, juxtaposition and mutual positive reinforcement of these two collections, one largely textual and the other image based, provides the reader with unique and multifaceted insights into how structural forms and systems can be related to architectural design intentions. Conveyed by a strong and deliberate graphical design format, this assembly of materials gets to the very essence of structures within the context of architecture, and will inspire students and practitioners alike to make strategic design decisions for their own projects.

The Scientific Revolution

Author : Don Nardo
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1420506137
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Revolution written by Don Nardo and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Don Nardo discusses the scientific revolution in Europe that led to what we now know as modern science. Readers will be introduced to the forerunners of modern science. They will become acquainted with advances such as the telescope and with advances in scientific methods. Newton and gravitation are covered, as well as enlightenment and beyond. Full-color photographs, maps, illustrations, timelines, and sidebars support the text.

Qualifications

Author : Sjur Bergan
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9287161259
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Qualifications written by Sjur Bergan and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualifications are a key element of higher education policies in general and of the Bologna Process in particular. Much work has been accomplished in this area over the past few years, and a proper understanding of qualifications is essential to making the European Higher Education Area a reality. This book provides a systematic overview of the concept of qualifications, discusses its main elements, such as Ievel, workload, quality, profile and learning outcomes, examines generic and subject-specific competences. The author also considers the development of qualifications frameworks and explores the impact of our understanding of the concept of qualifications on recognition.Sjur Bergan is Head of the Department of Higher Education and History Teaching of the Council of Europe, a member of the Bologna Follow-Up Group and one of the authors of the Council of Europe/UNESCO Recognition Convention. He has played an active role in the development of the overarching qualifications framework of the European Higher Education Area.

Rocket Man

Author : David A. Clary
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401398332
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Rocket Man written by David A. Clary and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the sound barrier. Supported by Charles Lindbergh and Harry Guggenheim, through fiery, often explosive, experiments at Roswell, New Mexico, he invented the methods that carried men to the moon. Today, no rocket or jet plane can fly without using his inventions. Yet he is the "forgotten man" of the space age. His own government ignored his rocketry until the Germans demonstrated its principles in the V-2 missiles of World War II. The American government usurped his 214 patents, while suppressing his contributions in the name of national security, until it was forced to pay one million dollars for patent infringement. Goddard became famous again, monuments and medals raining upon his memory. But his renewed fame soon faded, and Goddard's pivotal role in launching the Space Age has been largely forgotten.