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The Posthumous Works Of Robert Hooke Md Srs Geom Prof Gresh C Containing His Cutlerian Lectures And Other Discourses Read At The Meetings Of The Illustrious Royal Society In Which I The Present Deficiency Of Natural Philosophy Is Discoursed Of With The Methods Of Rendering It More Certain And Beneficial Ii The Nature Motion And Effects Of Light Are Treated Of Particularly That Of The Sun And Comets Iii An Hypothetical Explication Of Memory How The Organs Made Use Of By The Mind In Its Operation May Be Mechanically Understood Iv An Hypothesis And Explication Of The Cause Of Gravity Or Gravitation Magnetism C V Discourses Of Earthquakes Their Causes And Effects And Histories Of Several To Which Are Annext Physical Explications Of Several Of The Fables In Ovids Metamorphoses Very Different From Other Mythologick Interpreters Vi Lectures For Improving Navigation And Astronomy With The Descriptions Of Several New And Useful Instruments And Contrivances The Whole Full Of Curious Disquisitions And Experiments Illustrated With Sculptures To These Discourses Is Prefixt The Authors Life Giving An Account Of His Studies And Employments With An Enumeration Of The Many Experiments Instruments Contrivances And Inventions By Him Made And Producd As Curator Of Experiments To The Royal Society
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Download or read book Robert Hooke written by Michael Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are now being acclaimed in their own right. Curator of Experiments to the Royal Society when it was chartered in 1662 and author of the famous Micrographia (1665), Hooke also showed unparalleled ingenuity in designing machines and instruments, and played a crucial role as Surveyor to the City of London after the Great Fire. This volume represents a benchmark in the study of Hooke, bringing together a comprehensive set of studies of different aspects of his life, thought and artistry. Its sections deal with Hooke's life and reputation; his contributions to celestial mechanics and astronomy, and to speculative natural philosophy; the instruments that he designed; and his work in architecture and construction. The introduction places the studies in the context of our current understanding of Hooke and his milieu, while the book also contains a comprehensive bibliography. In all, it will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in a figure whose complexity and importance are becoming clear after centuries of neglect.
Book Synopsis Wicked Intelligence by : Matthew C. Hunter
Download or read book Wicked Intelligence written by Matthew C. Hunter and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monsters—all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the early Scientific Revolution. Wicked Intelligence reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London’s emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture such as St Paul’s Cathedral. Matthew C. Hunter brings to life this archive of experimental-philosophical visualization and the deft cunning that was required to manage such difficult research. Offering an innovative approach to the scientific image-making of the time, he demonstrates how the Restoration project of synthesizing experimental images into scientific knowledge, as practiced by Royal Society leaders Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren, might be called “wicked intelligence.” Hunter uses episodes involving specific visual practices—for instance, concocting a lethal amalgam of wax, steel, and sulfuric acid to produce an active model of a comet—to explore how Hooke, Wren, and their colleagues devised representational modes that aided their experiments. Ultimately, Hunter argues, the craft and craftiness of experimental visual practice both promoted and menaced the artistic traditions on which they drew, turning the Royal Society projects into objects of suspicion in Enlightenment England. The first book to use the physical evidence of Royal Society experiments to produce forensic evaluations of how scientific knowledge was generated, Wicked Intelligence rethinks the parameters of visual art, experimental philosophy, and architecture at the cusp of Britain’s imperial power and artistic efflorescence.
Book Synopsis Compass and Rule by : Anthony Gerbino
Download or read book Compass and Rule written by Anthony Gerbino and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners soon became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This stimulating book, which focuses in particular on the scientist, mathematician, and architect Sir Christopher Wren, explores the extent to which this new professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences. Featuring drawings, instruments, paintings, and other examples of the material culture of English architecture, the book discusses the role of mathematics in architectural design and building technology. It begins with architectural drawing in the 16th century, moves to large-scale technical drawing under Henry VIII, considers Inigo Jones and his royal buildings and Christopher Wren and the dome of St. Paul's, and concludes with the architectural education of George III. Interweaving text and visual image, the book investigates the boundaries between art and science in architecture--the most artistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the arts. Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (opens February 2010)
Book Synopsis The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren by : J. A. Bennett
Download or read book The Mathematical Science of Christopher Wren written by J. A. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers Wren's 'other' career as an astronomer, and shows how science informed his architectural philosophy.
Book Synopsis Register of the University of Oxford by : University of Oxford
Download or read book Register of the University of Oxford written by University of Oxford and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire by : Thomas Fiddian Reddaway
Download or read book The Rebuilding of London After the Great Fire written by Thomas Fiddian Reddaway and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Architecture Public & Private by : Kerry Downes
Download or read book English Architecture Public & Private written by Kerry Downes and published by Continuum. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.
Book Synopsis Miniatura; Or, The Art of Limning by : Edward Norgate
Download or read book Miniatura; Or, The Art of Limning written by Edward Norgate and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis British Architectural Books and Writers by : Eileen Harris
Download or read book British Architectural Books and Writers written by Eileen Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1990, this account of architectural books printed in Britain surveys a body of complex literature largely uncharted in bibliographical terms. It is however, more than a work of reference, and will fascinate anyone interested in British cultural and social history, the relationship between Britain and continental Europe, and the history of the book trade. For each of the 220 authors covered there is an essay discussing his interests, the purpose and the genesis of his publications. A detailed bibliographical description of the author's architectural publications follows each essay and gives details of the first and subsequent editions of some four hundred titles. The main body of the text is preceded by general essays on books on the Orders, bridges, archaeology, engraving, publishing and bookselling; manuals of carpentry and design; and pattern-books. There are detailed indexes.
Book Synopsis On a Grander Scale by : Lisa Jardine
Download or read book On a Grander Scale written by Lisa Jardine and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Sir Christopher Wren from one of Britain's best writers and historians
Book Synopsis A Description of Pocket and Magazine Cases of Mathematical Drawing Instruments by : Sir John Barrow
Download or read book A Description of Pocket and Magazine Cases of Mathematical Drawing Instruments written by Sir John Barrow and published by . This book was released on 1792* with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Establishing the New Science by : Michael Hunter
Download or read book Establishing the New Science written by Michael Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1989 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunter's reputation as one of the foremost students of Restoration science in England can only be further enhanced by this volume.' NATURE For anyone interested in the scientific revolution these essays are compulsory reading. Elegantly written and carefully researched, they are a welcome addition to the already extensive literature on the early years of the Royal Society.'HISTORYIn a series of detailed case studies, Michael Hunter presents a fresh view of the formative years of Britain's oldest scientific institution; The Royal Society of London, founded in 1660.
Book Synopsis The Image of Restoration Science by : Michael Hunter
Download or read book The Image of Restoration Science written by Michael Hunter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English science. The use of such plates to celebrate and legitimise the ‘new’ science of the period falls into a tradition that was well-established both in Britain and in Europe more generally, and which has increasingly attract attention from historians. Nevertheless, there are many questions to be asked about it and how it came into being. Was it an original composition by Evelyn, or is it based on earlier exemplars? Can all the scientific instruments, books and other objects that appear in it be identified, and what significance should be attached to their inclusion? Above all, how did the plate come to be designed in the first place, and what is its true relationship with Sprat’s book? In order to assess such issues, this study provides a full analysis of Evelyn’s image in its Royal Society setting and the wider world of early-modern science. The book first considers the overall iconography of the image and its message concerning Evelyn’s conception of the society’s role, before moving on to examine the myriad of details included in the plate and their significance. It concludes by considering the print’s history after publication, including the extent to which Evelyn used copies to exemplify the combination of technological and artistic accomplishment to which he believed the society should aspire.
Book Synopsis The History of Bethlem by : Jonathan Andrews
Download or read book The History of Bethlem written by Jonathan Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.
Book Synopsis The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge by : Thomas Sprat
Download or read book The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge written by Thomas Sprat and published by . This book was released on 1734 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge by : Thomas Sprat
Download or read book The History of the Royal Society of London, for the Improving of Natural Knowledge written by Thomas Sprat and published by . This book was released on 1667 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700 by : Michael Cyril William Hunter
Download or read book The Royal Society and Its Fellows, 1660-1700 written by Michael Cyril William Hunter and published by History of Science. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
