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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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The Eighteenth Century
Author: Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment
Author: Charles W. J. WithersPublisher: John Donald
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Writing to Dugald Stewart in June 1789, Thomas Jefferson enthused that as far as science was concerned, no place in the world can pretend to a competition with Edinburgh. Yet, despite similar encomiums down the years, the role of the natural sciences and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment is still neither generally appreciated nor fully understood. This collection of ten essays by scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the place of scientific and medical enquiry in Scotland during the period 1690-1815. Each chapter presents new research in order to reflect upon previous interpretations and to suggest fresh perspectives on the relationship between science and medicine and culture and society in 18th-century Scotland. Collectively, the essays illustrate both the centrality of natural and medical knowledge in enlightened culture and the wider implications of Scotland's story for an understanding of science and medicine in the modern world.
An Account of the Epidemical Catarrhal Fever, Commonly Called the Influenza
Author: Peter Dugud LesliePublisher:
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Category : Calcareous soils
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Parish Registers of England
Author: John Charles CoxPublisher:
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Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Roger Kenneth FrenchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521355100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1730, medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity and was influenced by the current developments of the day.
The Conquest of Smallpox
Author: P. E. RazzellPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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A History of Epidemics in Britain
Author: Charles CreightonPublisher:
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Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.