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Author : Maxwell Craven
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book John Whitehurst of Derby written by Maxwell Craven and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maxwell Craven
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ISBN 13 : 9781781552650
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (526 download)
Download or read book John Whitehurst FRS written by Maxwell Craven and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Whitehurst was one of a select number of men of science living and working in the eighteenth century whose minds were as remarkable for their breadth as their talents were for their diversity. Although remembered today mainly as a notable clockmaker from Derby the town in which he lived and worked for over forty years Whitehurst was also an instrument maker, mechanical engineer, hydraulicist, home improver, meteorologist, the father of modern geology and he had a hand in the development of the steam engine.
Author : John Whitehurst
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Inquiry Into the Original State and Formation of the Earth written by John Whitehurst and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Powers
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ISBN 13 : 9781003408000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book PHILOSOPHY AND THE NEW PHYSICS. written by Jonathan Powers and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1982 Philosophy and the New Physics is a compact and yet remarkably rich excursion through the history of physics from Newtonian mechanics to quantum physics. The theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and ideas about the fundamental constituents' of matter have attracted a great deal of philosophical comment. Indeed, the originators of some of these theories thought they were solving philosophical problems as well as scientific ones. Classical physics is often portrayed as epitomizing mechanistic materialism', and the revolution in modern physics is variously claimed to vindicate logical positivism', operationalism', organicism', dialectical materialism' and Buddhist metaphysics'. In this book Jonathan Powers criticizes all of these claims and argues that such varied and conflicting interpretations are possible because of ineradicable elements of conventionality in scientific theories. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy of science and philosophy in general.
Author : Jennifer S. Uglow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528888
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Lunar Men written by Jennifer S. Uglow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
Author : Christopher Holliday
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351681419
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Fantasy/Animation written by Christopher Holliday and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).
Author : Denis Cosgrove
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521389150
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (891 download)
Download or read book The Iconography of Landscape written by Denis Cosgrove and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1988, draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explicate the status of landscape as a cultural image.
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Author : Edward J. Wood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Curiosities of Clocks and Watches written by Edward J. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Loomes
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Brass Dial Clocks written by Brian Loomes and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1998 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new title discusses the origins, style and development of domestic brass dial clocks made between the early seventeenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries. The book provides a detailed examination of eight day and thirty-hour clocks with hundreds of illustrated examples of longcase, bracket, lantern derivatives, hook-and-spike and hooded clocks. It examines the development and distribution of each, with a complete re-examination of prototype thirty-hour clockwork and the work of clocksmiths, with a detailed discussion on the recognition of styles of the various regions/countries. Some of these aspects are discussed here for the first time. This new title will have a wide appeal as the author assumes no prior knowledge of the subject from his reader and concerns himself exclusively with a discussion of accessible clocks, not the rare museum pieces so often featured in other horological publications. He concentrates mainly on regional types, but also includes a very small number of London clocks in order that comparisons may be made, and uses examples from all over Britain, including Scotland and Ireland, and many from America.
Author : Matthew Craske
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781913107123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Joseph Wright of Derby written by Matthew Craske and published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive figure - one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment - Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the artist's paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces. In doing so, he recovers Wright's deep engagement with the landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain's most ambitious and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author : Jonathan Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954577964
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and Darwin's 'lunaticks' written by Jonathan Powers and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Granville Hugh Baillie
Publisher : Robert Hale Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719800405
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World written by Granville Hugh Baillie and published by Robert Hale Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 36,000 entries, this reference book documents watchmakers and clockmakers throughout the world, from the earliest records of the 14th century to 1825. Localities and dates are given in each case, together with work in museums and collections and historical notes.
Author : Vere Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781550151
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Two Duchesses written by Vere Foster and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Two Duchesses' is family correspondence of and relating to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire, Earl of Bristol (Bishop of Derry), the Countess of Bristol, Lord Byron, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Augustus Foster and others 1777-1859, focusing on the period from America's independence to the fall of Napoleon. Single letters are also included from Gibbon; Sheridan; Fox; the Prince Regent; General Moreau and Alexander, Emperor of Russia. The Devonshires were one of the first families of the land they were highly connected with George, Prince of Wales being a regular visitor to Devonshire house along with James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and other politicians and celebrities of the day. They were at the centre of society and their interest to history is heightened by the celebrated ménage à trois and other affairs which led both duchesses--at separate times--to seek a quiet period abroad to bear illegitimate children; Georgiana's daughter Eliza Courtney was sired by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, who later became prime minister; Elizabeth's children, Caroline St Jules and Augustus Clifford were sired by William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire, who she later married. Vere Foster, Elizabeth's grandson, had unique access to the papers and over a period of years produced accurate transcriptions of these historically important letters--often working from abdominal scrawl--to provide us with fascinating window into the pinnacle of society of the period.
Author : Erasmus Darwin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752374144
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)
Download or read book The Temple of Nature written by Erasmus Darwin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Temple of Nature by Erasmus Darwin
Author : Maxwell Craven
Publisher : Pitkin
ISBN 13 : 9780752463483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Derby Then & Now written by Maxwell Craven and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an ancient chartered settlement with Roman origins, Derby was caught up in the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution and became the important manufacturing city and regional capital that it is today. Fortunately, despite its rapid expansion, Derby has managed to preserve much of its stunning medieval core, but much has also changed in Derby’s streets. In ninety fascinating archive and modern photographs comparing the Derby of old and the Derby of today, historian Maxwell Craven takes a fond look at the changes that have taken place in his hometown over the decades.
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Horological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
