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This Earthly Globe

Author : Andrea Di Robilant
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307597075
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book This Earthly Globe written by Andrea Di Robilant and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair (“A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing” —The Washington Post), the story of an Italian Renaissance book editor who introduced European minds to the wider world through his passion for geography In the autumn of 1550, a thick volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans, with startling wood-cut maps of Africa, India and Indonesia, was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). The editor of this remarkable collection of travelogues, journals and classified government reports remained anonymous. Two additional volumes delivered the most accurate information on Asia and the “New World” available at the time. The three volumes together constituted an unparalleled release of geographical data into the public domain. It was, Andrea di Robilant writes, the biggest Wikileak of the Renaissance. In This Earthly Globe, di Robilant brings to life the palace intrigues, editorial wheedling, delicate alliances and vibrant curiosity that resulted in this coup by the editor Giovambattista Ramusio. Learned and self-effacing, he gathered a vast array of both popular and closely guarded narratives, from the journals of Marco Polo (he fact-checked them!) to detailed reports on Northern African cultures from the Muslim scholar and diplomat al-Hasan ibn Mohammad al-Wazzan (later known as Leo Africanus). Diverse voices spill out from these chapters as di Robilant recounts how Ramusio pursued the sources, and how he understood both the darker episodes of “exploration” involving colonial violence and the voyage stories which included accounts of people from African and Asian lands, who had a great deal to share about their cultures. The result is a far-flung and delightful homage to one of the founding fathers of modern geography.

THIS EARTHLY GLOBE

Author : ANDREA DI. ROBILANT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857891815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book THIS EARTHLY GLOBE written by ANDREA DI. ROBILANT and published by . This book was released on 2025 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proctor's "Planet Earth"

Author : Willam CARPENTER (of Greenwich.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proctor's "Planet Earth" written by Willam CARPENTER (of Greenwich.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geography Anatomiz'd ... The nineteenth edition ... with a set of new maps by Mr. Senex

Author : Patrick GORDON (F.R.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Geography Anatomiz'd ... The nineteenth edition ... with a set of new maps by Mr. Senex written by Patrick GORDON (F.R.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, The Geographical Grammar

Author : Patrick Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography Anatomiz'd: Or, The Geographical Grammar written by Patrick Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1704 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe?

Author : Alex Gleason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986130540
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe? written by Alex Gleason and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Alex Gleason, creator of the New Standard Map of the World. Is the Bible from Heaven? Is the Earth a Globe? In Two Parts - Does Modern Science and the Bible Agree? Also, an Accurate Chronology of All Past Time Containing a Classification of All the Eclipses from Creation.Alexander Gleason, creator of the Gleason New Standard Map of the World, makes the case for a flat earth. Includes an accurate chronology of all past time containing a classification of all the eclipses from creation. Over 400 pages of Gleason's original text and illustrations.

The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth Made Easy ... The Sixth Edition, Corrected. [With Plates.]

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth Made Easy ... The Sixth Edition, Corrected. [With Plates.] written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons

Author : Kippis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons written by Kippis and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Academy of Science and Art

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Academy of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Round About the Earth

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439100063
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet. For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and 270 men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not including Magellan, who died in the Philippines. Starting with these dangerous voyages, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook. Eventually sea travel grew much safer and passengers came on board. The most famous was Charles Darwin, but some intrepid women became circumnavigators too—a Lady Brassey, for example. Circumnavigation became a fad, as captured in Jules Verne’s classic novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Once continental railroads were built, circumnavigators could traverse sea and land. Newspapers sponsored racing contests, and people sought ways to distinguish themselves—by bicycling around the world, for instance, or by sailing solo. Steamships turned round-the-world travel into a luxurious experience, as with the tours of Thomas Cook & Son. Famous authors wrote up their adventures, including Mark Twain and Jack London and Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (better known as Nellie Bly). Finally humans took to the skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Not much later, Sputnik, Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation— in orbit. Through it all, the desire to take on the planet has tested the courage and capacity of the bold men and women who took up the challenge. Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as home. Round About the Earth is itself a thrilling adventure.

Understanding the Universe

Author : George Greenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139618873
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Universe written by George Greenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student-active introduction to astronomy, emphasizing inquiry learning so students will clearly understand our universe and the scientific method. Within-text and end-of-chapter questions check understanding of concepts and require the student to think critically through astronomy-based problems. 'Nature of Science' and 'Detectives on the Case' sections in each chapter encourage students to take on the role of a scientist and so develop an understanding of how scientific progress is made, leading students through a chain of arguments of forming and testing hypotheses, in the context of specific astronomical topics. By focusing on key topics, the student is able to develop a deeper understanding of the core areas of astronomy. Math is used to make intuitive points and kept simple by using a two-track system to first describe the logic of the calculation followed by a more detailed example. Simple illustrations support the text and step students through concepts visually.

Worldly Shakespeare

Author : Wilson Richard Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411339
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Worldly Shakespeare written by Wilson Richard Wilson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Rancire and Slavoj A iA ek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'.Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'.

Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects

Author : James Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects written by James Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Is the Earth a Globe

Author : Alexander Gleason
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781365529030
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Is the Earth a Globe written by Alexander Gleason and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Is the Bible from Heaven? or is the Earth a Globe?- First published as a 95 page soft cover book in 1890 to expound upon these questions. The 402 page second edition was released in 1893. We release this 160 page modern edition of the second portion of that book, Is the Earth A Globe? for new consideration. In this portion Gleason disproves the arguments generally advanced in favor of the so-called Copernican theory, and then proceeds to demonstrate beyond any reasonable doubt, that the earth is not a globe, that it does not move or rotate, that the sun moves, that the moon is not an opaque or non-luminous body, etc. The writer shows to the satisfaction of common sense that the modern universally accepted and taught theoretical astronomy, which claims the earth to be a globe, revolving around the sun, etc., is based on very weak arguments indeed, and that, on the contrary, it is not at all antagonistic to true science to accept the teachings of the Bible as they read. - Lutheran Witness, April 21, 1891

One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe

Author : William Carpenter
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe written by William Carpenter and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much may be gathered, indirectly, from the arguments in these pages, as to the real nature of the Earth on which we live and of the heavenly bodies which were created for us. The reader is requested to be patient in this matter and not expect a whole flood of light to burst in upon him at once, through the dense clouds of opposition and prejudice which hang all around. Old ideas have to be gotten rid of, by some people, before they can entertain the new; and this will especially be the case in the matter of the Sun, about which we are taught, by Mr. Proctor, as follows: “The globe of the Sun is so much larger than that of the Earth that no less than 1,250,000 globes as large as the Earth would be wanted to make up together a globe as large as the Sun.” Whereas, we know that, as it is demonstrated that the Sun moves round over the Earth, its size is proportionately less. We can then easily understand that Day and Night, and the Seasons are brought about by his daily circuits round in a course concentric with the North, diminishing in their extent to the end of June, and increasing until the end of December, the equatorial region being the area covered by the Sun’s mean motion. If, then, these pages serve but to arouse the spirit of enquiry, the author will be satisfied.

A briefe introduction to Geography containing a description of the grounds and generall part thereof, etc

Author : William PEMBLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A briefe introduction to Geography containing a description of the grounds and generall part thereof, etc written by William PEMBLE and published by . This book was released on 1658 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: