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An Historical Miscellany of the Curiosities and Rarities in Nature and Art. Comprising New and Entertaining Descriptions of the Most Surprising ... Phenomena of Nature, Etc. [With Plates.]
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Author: MISCELLANYGeneral catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 480
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Author-title Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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The Catalogue of the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries
Author: University of Oklahoma. LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Democracy and Education
Author: John DeweyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Author: Lorraine DastonPublisher: Princeton University Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Discusses how European scientists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonders, monsters, curiosities, marvels, and other phenomena to envision the natural world.
Art in History/History in Art
Author: David FreedbergPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362014
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.