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The Cabinetmaker's Account

Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871692719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Cabinetmaker's Account written by Jay Robert Stiefel and published by American Philosophical Society Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "English joiner John Head (1688–1754) immigrated to Philadelphia in 1717 and became one of its most successful artisans and merchants. However, his prominence was lost to history until the author’s discovery of his account book at the Library of the American Philosophical Society. A find of great historical importance, Head’s account book is the earliest and most complete to have survived from any cabinetmaker working in British North America or in Great Britain. It chronicles the commerce, crafts, and lifestyles of early Philadelphia’s entire community: its shopkeeping, cabinetmaking, chairmaking, clockmaking, glazing, metalworking, needleworking, property development, agriculture, botany, livestock, transport, foodstuffs, drink, hardware, fabrics, furnishings, household wares, clothing, building materials, and export trade. Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, presents the definitive interpretation of the John Head account book and introduces many other discoveries. The culmination of nearly 20 years of research, this new volume serves as an essential reference work on 18th-century Philadelphia, its furniture and material culture, as well as an intimate and detailed social history of the interactions among that era’s most talented artisans and successful merchants. Profusely illustrated and in large format, the book includes a foreword from furniture historian Adam Bowett and an introduction by historian Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the American Philosophical Society Library" -- Provided by publisher.

Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer

Author : Sarah B. Pomeroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606181065
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the first book that focuses on Benjamin Franklin as a swimmer. Franklin thought swimming a valuable activity and swam whenever he could wherever he was. We can see Franklin's personality emerge through the lens of swimming, which offered him entrée into London society as a young man. The book includes excerpts from the journal of Benjamin Franklin Bache, Franklin's grandson"--

Patriot-improvers

Author : Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Patriot-improvers written by Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Luminescence

Author : E. Newton Harvey
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781516980413
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A History of Luminescence written by E. Newton Harvey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-13 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in depth history on the subject of luminescence. From elements to the sky to biological and more.

The Harmony of the World

Author : Johannes Kepler
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692092
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Harmony of the World written by Johannes Kepler and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.

Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691927
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century written by Kenneth Meyer Setton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in many ways a sequel to the 4 vols. of Setton's "Papacy & the Levant (1204-1571)," although the emphasis has shifted northward from the Holy See to Venice & Austria. Includes such topics as: Austrians & Turks in the Long War (1592-1606); the Bohemian Succession, & the Outbreak of the 30 Years' War; Gustavus Adolphus, Cardinal Richeliu, & the Hapsburgs; the Increasing Importance of France; The Treaties of Westphalia; Venice, Malta, & the Turks; The Long War of Candia; The Turco-Venetian War (1646-1653); Naval Battles at the Dardanelles (1654-1657); the Cretan War; Papal Aid to Venice; Surrender of Venice to the Turks; Turco-Venetian Relations (1670-1683) & the Turkish Siege of Vienna; The Conquests of the Austrians in Hungary, the Revolt of the Turkish Army, & the Venetians in the Morea (1684-1687); the Invasion of Attica, & the Destruction of the Parthenon; The Venetians' Withdrawal fron Athens; the Removal of Antiquities; Louis XIV, the Turks, & the War of the League of Augsburg; the Turkish Reconquest of the Morea; the Victories of Eugene of Savoy; & Venice as a Playground of Europe.

Emil Von Behring

Author : Derek S. Linton
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692559
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Emil Von Behring written by Derek S. Linton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in med. for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era and its develop. generated procedures for testing, standardizing, and regulating drugs. Emphasizes Behring's contrib. to the study of infectious disease, the formation of modern immunology, and research on remedies and vaccines against microbial infections. Explores his relations to the rival bacteriological schools of Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, the emergent German pharmaceutical industry, and the institutionalization of experimental therapeutic research. Also contains translations of 13 key articles by Behring and his assoc.

Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes

Author : Vincent Ilardi
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692597
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes written by Vincent Ilardi and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. "By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today." Eyeglasses served an important technological function at both the intellectual and practical level, not only easing the textual studies of scholars but also easing the work of craftsmen/small bus. During the 15th cent. two crucial developments occurred: the ability to grind convex lenses for various levels of presbyopia and the ability to grind concave lenses for the correction of myopia. As a result, eyeglasses could be made almost to prescription by the early 17th cent. Illus.

Native Writings in Massachusett

Author : Ives Goddard
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691859
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Native Writings in Massachusett written by Ives Goddard and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1988 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), and the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area and the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In two volumes.

The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity

Author : William Linn Westermann
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871690401
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by : William Linn Westermann

Download or read book The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity written by William Linn Westermann and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1955 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek slavery from Homer to the Persian wars -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave supply and slave numbers -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : slave employment and legal aspects of slavery -- From the Persian wars to Alexander : the social setting of polis slavery -- The eastern Mediterranean lands from Alexander to Augustus : the Delphic manumissions : slave origins, economic and legal approaches -- The eastern area from Alexander to Augustus : basic differences between pre-Greek and Greek slavery -- Slavery in Hellenistic Egypt : pharaonic tradition and Greek intrusions -- War and slavery in the West to 146 B.C. -- The Roman republic : praedial slavery, piracy, and slave revolts -- The later republic : the slave and the Roman familia -- The later republic : social and legal position of slaves -- Slavery under the Roman empire to Constantine the Great : sources and numbers of slaves -- The Roman Empire in the West : economic aspects of slavery -- Slavery under the Roman Empire : the provenance of slaves, how sold and prices paid -- The Roman Empire : living conditions and social life of slaves -- Imperial slaves and freedmen of the emperors : amelioration of slavery -- The moral implications of imperial slavery and the "decline" of ancient culture -- In the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire -- From Diocletian to Justinian : problems os slavery -- From Diocletian to Justinian : the eastern and the western developments -- From Diocletian to Justinian : leveling of position between free workers and slaves -- Upon slavery and Christianity -- Conclusion.

The Art of Revolutions

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ISBN 13 : 9781606180952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Revolutions written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Philosophical Society exhibition, Curious Revolutionaries: The Peales of Philadelphia (April-December 2017), curated by Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Drs. Diana Marsh and Amy Ellison, offered visitors a look at the lives, accomplishments, and legacies of Charles Willson Peale and his talented family. Expanding on the exhibition, "The Art of Revolutions" conference, cosponsored by the American Philosophical Society, the Museum of the American Revolution, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, explored the role of imagery in influencing and giving meaning to the political revolutions that defined the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The conference was held October 26-28, 2017, at the American Philosophical Society. Included here is a selection of the talks presented at the conference, revised and updated. The volume also contains an introduction by Cathy Kelley and a compelling preface by Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the APS Library.

The Order Microsauria

Author : Robert Lynn Carroll
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691262
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Order Microsauria written by Robert Lynn Carroll and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1978 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses in particular the suggested relationship of microsaurs with reptiles and the determination of the ancestry of the various groups of living amphibians. Twenty-five general of microsaurs are recognized in this work. Contents: History of the Microsaur Concept; Definition of Micrausaurs; Methods of Study; Taxonomy; Systematic Description; Comparative Anatomy; Relationships of Microsaurs; Geological and Geographical Distribution and Biology of Microsaurs; Summary; and References Cites. Illustrations.

Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus

Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692337
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus written by Alexander Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt. Through these documents we obtain the first coherent picture of the range of astronomical activity, chiefly in the service of astrology, during the Roman Empire. The astronomy of this period turns out to have been much more varied than we previously thought, with Babylonian arithmetical methods of prediction coexisting with tables based on geometrical models of orbits. Editions of the texts are accomp. by facing translations & explanatory & philological commentaries. The intro. provides the first comprehensive treatment of astronomical papyri, explaining their contents & purpose, the underlying astronomical theories, & strategies for analyzing & dating them. Tables & graphs.

Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry

Author : Joseph Stewart Fruton
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692450
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry written by Joseph Stewart Fruton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought & action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, & other events & practices that have contributed to the field of modern chemistry. The story begins with the influence of alchemy on early Greek numerology and philosophy, followed by the historical account of chemical composition and phlogiston. The life and work of Antoine Lavoisier receive extensive coverage in Chapter Three, with the remaining six chapters devoted to atoms, equivalents, and elements; radicals and types; valence and molectualr structure; stereochemistry and organic synthesis; forces, equilibria, and rates; and electrons, reaction mechanisms, and organic synthesis.

Cavendish

Author : Christa Jungnickel
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871692201
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Cavendish written by Christa Jungnickel and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cavendishes flourished during the high tide of British aristocracy following the revolution of 1688-89, and the case can be made that this aristocracy knew its finest hour when Henry Cavendish gently laid his delicate weights in the pan of his incomparable precision balance. For this it took two generations and two kinds of invention, one in social forms and the other in scientific technique. This biography tells how it came to pass."--Book jacket

Public Organization in Ancient Greece

Author : Nicholas F. Jones
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691767
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Public Organization in Ancient Greece written by Nicholas F. Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1987 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Greek city-states typically administered themselves through more or less permanent divisions of their populations or territories. The Athenian system of phylai ("tribes"), trittyes ("Thirds") & demes ("villages") is the familiar example, but something is known of the arrangements of about 200 other states representing all regions of the Greek world. Drawing upon the predominantly epigraphic record, Dr. Jones provides the first comprehensive analysis, arranged on a state-by-state basis, of these organizations. The book documents the widespread tendency of the public units, quite apart from their state-wide administrative roles, to be organized internally as self-sustaining associations. Constituting a public social organization, these "new communities" addressed the problem of the persistence within the state of inherited regional or political pluralism. Precisely because of their artificiality, the public associations offered an innocuous alternative to the old, divisive loyalties. Thereby a degree of stability might be secured for these often deeply fragmented societies.

"Realms of Gold"

Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691958
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book "Realms of Gold" written by American Philosophical Society and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1991 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a catalog of the rich & extensive collection of maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) in Philadelphia. it contains information on some 1,750 printed maps, over 1,000 manuscript maps, 136 atlases, two globes, & one model. Murphy Smith began this project in 1985 shortly after he retired from his long career as Associate Librarian of the Society, when Librarian Edward C. Carter II named him Andrew W. Mellon Sr. Research Fellow. Smith came to be recognized as one of the most knowledgeable & helpful historical RCRA librarians in the country. Illustrations.