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Author : John Winthrop
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets, written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Winthrop
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Winthrop
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Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Winthrop
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330377451
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Lectures on Comets That class of readers, whose intellectual survey is more exact, will not think it unprofitable to revise the details on which are founded the results which they may have embraced. All, it may be hoped, will regard with complacency this renewed diffusion of performances, honourable to the authors and to our country. It was intended to have completed this re-impression at an earlier day. The delay that has occurred, has been caused by a wish to render the work more valuable to the reader. Opportunity has been given to procure a detailed account of the present comet, from European observations, as well as from domestic sources. This account will be found in the Supplement, with incidental remarks connected with the subject. From the friend who furnished those additions, the publishers have also been favoured with sketches of the lives and characters of the learned and estimable men, whose writings they have copied. These biographical notices were considered as a proper appendage to the volume. It, by this publication, the editors and those who have co-operated with them, should in any degree promote a taste and spirit for astronomical science and philosophical research, it will be a source of gratification; for they are persuaded that pursuits of this description, while they are no injurious impediment to occupations of more immediate interest, have a decided tendency to improve the individual and to elevate the national character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Winthrop
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1759 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Winthrop
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Download or read book Two Lectures on Comets written by John Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Rothschild
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595617611
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book Two Brides for Apollo written by Robert Rothschild and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Williams (1743-1817) was a minister, astronomer, newspaper editor, surveyor, social historian, and philosopher. While a student at Harvard, he assisted John Winthrop on an expedition to Newfoundland to observe the 1761 transit of Venus. Following Winthrop as Hollis Professor of Natural Philosophy, Williams modernized the teaching of science at Harvard, taught such illustrious students as John Quincy Adams, and led a Harvard expedition to observe the solar eclipse of 1780. He was a major force in the founding of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, contributing many of its first scientific papers. To escape a charge of forgery Williams fled to Vermont by night on horseback. There he preached the Enlightenment view that mankind could achieve the greatest happiness in a life based on the God-given power of reason. Williams founded and edited the Rutland Herald, wrote one of the first histories of the American Revolution, and one of the first state histories, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont. He was co-founder of the University of Vermont and taught astronomy there. Superior surveying skills enabled him in 1806 to add 600 square miles of Canadian-claimed territory to the state of Vermont. In 1970, the American Philosophical Society published Williams's Philosophic Lectures, yet Williams has remained little known. The author hopes this book will correct this.
Author : Sara Schechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227675
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Author : Dionysius LARDNER
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Course of Lectures ... on the Sun, Comets, the Fixed Stars, Electricity, &c. Eight double lectures revised and corrected ... Second edition written by Dionysius LARDNER and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Dickson White
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Doctrine of Comets written by Andrew Dickson White and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 580 pages
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Download or read book Halley's Comet written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Subject-catalogue of the Library of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John KEILL
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book An introduction to the true astronomy: or, Astronomical lectures ... The fifth edition, corrected written by John KEILL and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dionysius Lardner
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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book The Second Course of Dr. Lardner's Lectures on the Sun, Comets, the Fixed Stars, Electricity, Light and Sound, Steam Navigation, &c. &c written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John KEILL
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Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book An Introduction to the true Astronomy or Astronomical Lectures read in the Astronomical School of the University of Oxford. Translated from the Latin written by John KEILL and published by . This book was released on 1748 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 606 pages
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Download or read book The National Cyclopedia of American Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
