Author: H. B.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Boston Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God 1692
Author: H. B.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700
Author: Bruce Stanley BurdickPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140205X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This magisterial annotated bibliography of the earliest mathematical works to be printed in the New World challenges long-held assumptions about the earliest examples of American mathematical endeavor. Bruce Stanley Burdick brings together mathematical writings from Mexico, Lima, and the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York. The book provides important information such as author, printer, place of publication, and location of original copies of each of the works discussed. Burdick’s exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the Americas before 1703, Burdick gives scholars one of their first chances to discover Jacob Taylor’s 1697 Tenebrae, a treatise on solving triangles and other figures using basic trigonometry. He also goes beyond the English language to discuss works in Spanish and Latin, such as Alonso de la Vera Cruz's 1554 logic text, the Recognitio Summularum; a book on astrology by Enrico Martínez; books on the nature of comets by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and Eusebio Francisco Kino; and a 1676 almanac by Feliciana Ruiz, the first woman to produce a mathematical work in the Americas. Those fascinated by mathematics, its history, and its culture will note with interest that many of these works, including all of the earliest ones, are from Mexico, not from what is now the United States. As such, the book will challenge us to rethink the history of mathematics on the American continents.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
The Devil's Dominion
Author: Richard GodbeerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Devil's Dominion examines the use of folk magic by ordinary men and women in early New England. The book describes in vivid detail the magical techniques used by settlers and the assumptions which underlaid them. Godbeer argues that layfolk were generally far less consistent in their beliefs and actions than their ministers would have liked; even church members sometimes turned to magic. The Devil's Dominion reveals that the relationship between magical and religious belief was complex and ambivalent: some members of the community rejected magic altogether, but others did not. Godbeer argues that the controversy surrounding astrological prediction in early New England paralleled clerical condemnation of magical practice, and that the different perspectives on witchcraft engendered by magical tradition and Puritan doctrine often caused confusion and disagreement when New Englanders sought legal punishment of witches.
Almanack
Author: Dictionary of Books relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375019939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
A dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375251017X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The "true Professional Ideal" in America
Author: Bruce A. KimballPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847681433
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Bruce A. Kimball attacks the widely held assumption that the idea of American "professionalism" arose from the proliferation of urban professional positions during the late nineteenth century. This first paperback edition of The "True Professional Ideal" in America argues that the professional ideal can be traced back to the colonial period. This comprehensive intellectual history illuminates the profound relationships between the idea of a "professional" and broader changes in American social, cultural, and political history.