Author: James WallacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and Practical Astronomy Or a Comprehensive View of the System of the World
Author: James WallaceA New Treatise on the Use of the Globes, and Practical Astronomy; Or a Comprehensive View of the System of the World. In Four Parts. ... The Whole Serving as an Introduction to the Higher Astronomy and Natural Philosophy, is Illustrated with a Variety of Important Notes, Useful Remarks, &c. and Each Problem with Several Examples. The Necessary Astronomical Instruments are Pointed Out, and the Most Useful Tables are Inserted in the Work. Designed for the Instruction of Youth, and Particularly Adapted to the United States. By J. Wallace, ..
Author: James WallaceThe Bicentennial History of Georgetown University: From academy to university, 1789-1889
Author: Robert Emmett CurranPublisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878404858
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
"Sets Georgetown's story within the larger educational context quite expertly."-Catholic Historical Review.
Crossings and Dwellings
Author: Kyle B. RobertsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004340297
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
In Crossings and Dwellings, Kyle Roberts and Stephen Schloesser, S.J., bring together essays by eighteen scholars in one of the first volumes to explore the work and experiences of Jesuits and their women religious collaborators in North America over two centuries following the Jesuit Restoration. Long dismissed as anti-liberal, anti-nationalist, and ultramontanist, restored Jesuits and their women religious collaborators are revealed to provide a useful prism for looking at some of the most important topics in modern history: immigration, nativism, urbanization, imperialism, secularization, anti-modernization, racism, feminism, and sexual reproduction. Approaching this broad range of topics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume provides a valuable contribution to an understudied period.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Sophie's World
Author: Jostein GaarderPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
A History of Natural Philosophy
Author: Edward GrantPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521869315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Passion of the Western Mind
Author: Richard TarnasPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307804526
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe
Author: William Carpenter Publisher: Ravenio Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
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.
Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World
Author: Sir Isaac NewtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321723
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1934.