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Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Polymath Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300250029
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Polymath written by Peter Burke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the western polymath, from the fifteenth century to the present day From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopaedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of their valuable achievements. In this engaging, erudite account, renowned cultural historian Peter Burke argues for a more rounded view. Identifying 500 western polymaths, Burke explores their wide-ranging successes and shows how their rise matched a rapid growth of knowledge in the age of the invention of printing, the discovery of the New World and the Scientific Revolution. It is only more recently that the further acceleration of knowledge has led to increased specialisation and to an environment that is less supportive of wide-ranging scholars and scientists. Spanning the Renaissance to the present day, Burke changes our understanding of this remarkable intellectual species.
Author : D.J. Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN 13 : 191370100X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Varro varius written by D.J. Butterfield and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-05-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome produced no man more erudite, eclectic, and energetic than Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 BC). Over a long and busy life, set against the backdrop of near-constant social and political upheaval, Varro studied and codified almost every conceivable topic for intellectual enquiry. His vast output – of at least seventy works in over 600 books – is breathtaking in its range and ambition: antiquity (in all its aspects), language, literary history, theology, philosophy, sociology, agriculture, geography, music, mathematics – to say nothing of his own poetic and satirical writings. In many of these fields Varro redefined the terms of study for the Roman world (and beyond); in some he founded a scholarly discipline and tradition without any precedent. Yet the greatest scholar of Rome has rarely enjoyed the attention he deserves from the modern world: although the fragmentary state of much of his corpus presents serious obstacles to enquiry, the extant material provides a rich and unparalleled insight into Roman scholarship of the first century BC. This volume of new essays on Varro seeks to analyze this multifaceted polymath from several angles, not only revisiting his better known writings and the problems they raise but also reconstructing his intellectual activity and its influence on the basis of insufficiently examined evidence.
Author : Waqas Ahmed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119508487
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Polymath written by Waqas Ahmed and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every human is born with multifarious potential. Why, then, do parents, schools and employers insist that we restrict our many talents and interests; that we 'specialise' in just one? We've been sold a myth, that to 'specialise' is the only way to pursue truth, identity, or even a livelihood. Yet specialisation is nothing but an outdated system that fosters ignorance, exploitation and disillusionment and thwarts creativity, opportunity and progress. Following a series of exchanges with the world’s greatest historians, futurists, philosophers and scientists, Waqas Ahmed has weaved together a narrative of history and a vision for the future that seeks to disrupt this prevailing system of unwarranted ‘hyper-specialisation.’ In The Polymath, Waqas shows us that there is another way of thinking and being. Through an approach that is both philosophical and practical, he sets out a cognitive journey towards reclaiming your innate polymathic state. Going further, he proposes nothing less than a cultural revolution in our education and professional structures, whereby everyone is encouraged to express themselves in multiple ways and fulfil their many-sided potential. Not only does this enhance individual fulfilment, but in doing so, facilitates a conscious and creative society that is both highly motivated and well equipped to address the complexity of 21st century challenges.
Author : Positive Party Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707225958
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (259 download)
Download or read book I Accept Polymath Notebook written by Positive Party Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 120-page journal features: 120 wide-ruled lined pages 6" x 9" size - big enough for your writing and small enough to take with you smooth 55# white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or colored pencils a cover page where you can enter your name and other information a matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments, and more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Journals to Write In offers a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. These journals also make wonderful gifts, so put a smile on someone's face today!
Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805110217
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Last Man Who Knew Everything written by Andrew Robinson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.
Author : Younes Jalali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319978373
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Taghi Erani, a Polymath in Interwar Berlin written by Younes Jalali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent civil servant, scientist, and intellectual, Taghi Erani was a pivotal figure in interwar Iran. Witness to two of the major political upheavals in the twentieth century—the rise of Pahlavi and the collapse of the Weimar Republic—he turned from fundamental science to leftwing activism and pacifism, leading to his arrest and death in prison. Younes Jalali traces his journey from Tehran to Berlin, where in the 1920s he crossed paths with the greatest German scientists and scholars of his day, including Max Planck, Albert Einstein, and Friedrich Rosen, and published seminal works on psychology and political philosophy. In the 1930s, as Reza Shah pursued rapprochement with the Third Reich, Taghi Erani was caught up in a crackdown on left-wing and pro-labor activists. His life and death offer a unique lens through which to view modern Iranian intellectual and political history.
Author : Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535104233
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Space Science written by Herman J. Mosquera Cuesta and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-03-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The all-encompassing term Space Science was coined to describe all of the various fields of research in science: Physics and astronomy, aerospace engineering and spacecraft technologies, advanced computing and radio communication systems, that are concerned with the study of the Universe, and generally means either excluding the Earth or outside of the Earth's atmosphere. This special volume on Space Science was built throughout a scientifically rigorous selection process of each contributed chapter. Its structure drives the reader into a fascinating journey starting from the surface of our planet to reach a boundary where something lurks at the edge of the observable, light-emitting Universe, presenting four Sections running over a timely review on space exploration and the role being played by newcomer nations, an overview on Earth's early evolution during its long ancient ice age, a reanalysis of some aspects of satellites and planetary dynamics, to end up with intriguing discussions on recent advances in physics of cosmic microwave background radiation and cosmology.
Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691197091
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Ibn Khaldun written by Robert Irwin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas. Irwin tells how Ibn Khaldun, who lived in a world decimated by the Black Death, held a long series of posts in the tumultuous Islamic courts of North Africa and Muslim Spain, becoming a major political player as well as a teacher and writer. Closely examining the Muqaddima, a startlingly original analysis of the laws of history, and drawing on many other contemporary sources, Irwin shows how Ibn Khaldun's life and thought fit into historical and intellectual context, including medieval Islamic theology, philosophy, politics, literature, economics, law, and tribal life. Because Ibn Khaldun's ideas often seem to anticipate by centuries developments in many fields, he has often been depicted as more of a modern man than a medieval one, and Irwin's account of such misreadings provides new insights about the history of Orientalism. In contrast, Irwin presents an Ibn Khaldun who was a creature of his time--a devout Sufi mystic who was obsessed with the occult and futurology and who lived in an often-strange world quite different from our own"--Jacket.
Author : David James Butterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956838148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Varro Varivs written by David James Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over seventy works to his name, Marcus Terentius Varro (116-24 B.C.) was arguably the greatest scholar of the Roman world. This volume of essays addresses his often neglected output, shedding new light on the intellectual activity of the late Roman republic. Cambridge Classical Journal Supplement 39.
Author : Amy R. Hofer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440841675
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Transforming Information Literacy Instruction written by Amy R. Hofer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying important elements and connections between each concept, and relating theory to practical methods that can transform how librarians teach. A model that emerged from the Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments project in Great Britain, threshold concepts are those transformative core ideas and processes in a given discipline that define the ways of thinking and practicing shared by experts. Once a learner grasps a threshold concept, new pathways to understanding and learning are opened up. The authors of this book provide readers with both a substantial introduction to and a working knowledge of this emerging theory and then describe how it can be adapted for local information literacy instruction contexts. Five threshold concepts are presented and covered in depth within the context of how they relate and connect to each other. The chapters offer an in-depth explanation of the threshold concepts model and identify how it relates to various disciplines (and our own discipline, information science) and to the understandings we want our students to acquire. This text will benefit readers in these primary audiences: academic librarians involved with information literacy efforts at their institutions, faculty teaching in higher education, upper-level college administrators involved in academic accreditation, and high school librarians working with college-bound students.
Author : Paul-André Bempéchat
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754606833
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Jean Cras, Polymath of Music and Letters written by Paul-André Bempéchat and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Cras (1879-1932) was a remarkable man by anyone's measure. Twice a decorated hero of the Great War, this Rear-Admiral of the French navy, scientist, inventor, moral philosopher and war-hero, was also a highly esteemed composer during his lifetime, enjoying the same stature and level of recognition as Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. Since his death, however, both Cras and his music have been almost completely overlooked. In this, the first critical biography of Cras, Paul-Andre Bempechat situates the composer as a missing link between the French post-romantic generation of composers and the impressionists.
Author : Positive Party Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707729326
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Just Hodl It Polymath Notebook written by Positive Party Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 120-page journal features: 120 wide-ruled lined pages 6" x 9" size - big enough for your writing and small enough to take with you smooth 55# white-color paper, perfect for ink, gel pens, pencils or colored pencils a cover page where you can enter your name and other information a matte-finish cover for an elegant, professional look and feel This journal can be used for writing poetry, jotting down your brilliant ideas, recording your accomplishments, and more. Use it as a diary or gratitude journal, a travel journal or to record your food intake or progress toward your fitness goals. The simple lined pages allow you to use it however you wish. Journals to Write In offers a wide variety of journals, so keep one by your bedside as a dream journal, one in your car to record mileage and expenses, one by your computer for login names and passwords, and one in your purse or backpack to jot down random thoughts and inspirations throughout the day. Paper journals never need to be charged and no batteries are required! You only need your thoughts and dreams and something to write with. These journals also make wonderful gifts, so put a smile on someone's face today!
Author : James Pickett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750259
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Polymaths of Islam written by James Pickett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth. James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone. Through a high cultural complex that he terms the "Persian cosmopolis" or "Persianate sphere," Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In Polymaths of Islam he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.
Author : Melinda A. Cro
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626167761
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom written by Melinda A. Cro and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language classrooms provide unique opportunities for intellectual growth, cognitive skill development, and cultural exchange. In Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom, Melinda A. Cro makes the case for bringing the digital humanities (DH) into that sphere, strengthening students’ language skills while furthering their critical thinking and research abilities. Written as a practical guide for language instructors new to DH, Cro addresses practitioners’ most common questions: What are the benefits of DH for language learning in particular? How can DH be used at different levels of instruction? What types of DH tools are out there, and what kinds of knowledge must students and teachers bring to the table? Integrating the Digital Humanities into the Second Language Classroom is filled with real-world examples and concrete recommendations, making it an ideal introduction for language teachers intrigued by the potential of DH.
Author : David Cahan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654916X
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Helmholtz written by David Cahan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, chemical thermodynamics, and meteorology. With Helmholtz: A Life in Science, David Cahan has written a definitive biography, one that brings to light the dynamic relationship between Helmholtz’s private life, his professional pursuits, and the larger world in which he lived. ? Utilizing all of Helmholtz’s scientific and philosophical writings, as well as previously unknown letters, this book reveals the forces that drove his life—a passion to unite the sciences, vigilant attention to the sources and methods of knowledge, and a deep appreciation of the ways in which the arts and sciences could benefit each other. By placing the overall structure and development of his scientific work and philosophy within the greater context of nineteenth-century Germany, Helmholtz also serves as cultural biography of the construction of the scientific community: its laboratories, institutes, journals, disciplinary organizations, and national and international meetings. Helmholtz’s life is a shining example of what can happen when the sciences and the humanities become interwoven in the life of one highly motivated, energetic, and gifted person.
Author : Yan?kkaya, Berrin
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799848302
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency written by Yan?kkaya, Berrin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, it has remained a significant challenge for women to be heard within crucial components of society. Male domination has a vast history of restricting the visibility and voices of women in areas including economics and politics. In recent years, however, those longstanding barriers are beginning to crumble as feminism and women’s rights have become vital areas of research. Understanding the importance of having a voice and its relation to the construction of women’s empowerment, as well as existing limitations in global regions, is imperative. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Women, Voice, and Agency is a collection of innovative research on the examination of giving voice to women’s issues in the contemporary world and their increasing impact within the various pillars of society. While highlighting topics including social change, digital activism, and inclusion, this book is ideally designed for researchers, activists, policymakers, practitioners, politicians, advocates, educators, and students seeking current research on women empowerment and the interpretation of women’s voices throughout the globe.
