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Author : Frank M. Chambers
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ISBN 13 : 9780871691675
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society written by Frank M. Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : American Philosophical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780871692719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)
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.
Author : David Pingree
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692139
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. written by David Pingree and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Martin Guralnick
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ISBN 13 : 9780871691095
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society written by Stanley Martin Guralnick and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin Wolf
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692573
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Library of Benjamin Franklin written by Edwin Wolf and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.
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Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edith Balas
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692160
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Michelangelo's Medici Chapel written by Edith Balas and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Speculation about its meaning began quite early, for Michelangelo's contemporaries were apparently no better informed than we. An interpretation made by Benedetto Varchi in 1549 & since universally accepted, was by his own admission a personal opinion, not confirmed by the artist. In the 16th century, interpretations quite at variance with modern scholarly assumptions were made. Here, Dr. Edith Balas contends that the artist deliberately veiled his meaning in obscurity, making his images, like the language of Neoplatonic philosophers, intelligible only to an intellectual elite. Assuming the role of the Magus, Michelangelo conceived a cryptic, magical world of potent allegorical images designed not simply or primarily to commemorate the departed Medici but to help achieve elevation for their souls. Illus.
Author : Harvey Chisick
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ISBN 13 : 9780871691989
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society written by Harvey Chisick and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek S. Linton
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692559
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
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.
Author : Christopher Charles Booth
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692542
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (925 download)
Download or read book John Haygarth, FRS (1740-1827) written by Christopher Charles Booth and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to medicine & to philanthropy. He became a physician in Chester in 1767. There he introduced separate wards in the Chester Infirmary where patients with fever could be isolated & cared for. It was the stimulus for the development of the fever hospitals of 19th cent. England. He also played a major role in the foundation of the Bath Provident Institution for savings, a model for the savings-bank movement in England. Black & white illustrations.
Author : Ives Goddard
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871691859
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)
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.
Author : Robert Francis Jones
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692023
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The King of the Alley written by Robert Francis Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.
Author : Yung Sik Kim
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692351
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (923 download)
Download or read book The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200) written by Yung Sik Kim and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2000 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specialized knowledged in such "scientific" traditions as astronomy, harmonics, med., etc. This study of Chu Hsi's thought gives a systematic account of the basic concepts of his natural philosophy. Also discusses Chu Hsi's actual knowledge about the natural world. And examines the relation between Chu Hsi and Chinese "scientific" traditions and compares his natural knowledge with that of the Western scientific tradition.
Download or read book Patriot-improvers written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eliakim Hastings Moore
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ISBN 13 : 9781258569754
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)
Download or read book General Analysis, Part 1 written by Eliakim Hastings Moore and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael A. Houlden
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ISBN 13 : 9780871691705
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (917 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society written by Michael A. Houlden and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth Meyer Setton
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871692016
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom written by Kenneth Meyer Setton and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tall tales of medieval pilgrims and the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the Middle Ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet and the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: Early legends and prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz and the "Red Apple"; and Translations of the Koran and Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illustrations.
