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Author: Nicholas Goodison Publisher: ACC Distribution ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
The definitive history of domestic barometers made between 1680 and 1860, their makers and retailers. The book provides a brief technical introduction explaining how barometers work, biographies of the fifty most important makers and a listing of 2,000 other makers.
Author: Nicholas Goodison Publisher: ACC Distribution ISBN: Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
The definitive history of domestic barometers made between 1680 and 1860, their makers and retailers. The book provides a brief technical introduction explaining how barometers work, biographies of the fifty most important makers and a listing of 2,000 other makers.
Author: Vladimir Jankovic Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226392165 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
Author: Gerard L'Estrange Turner Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520051607 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 346
Book Description
Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity
Author: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0198024274 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.
Author: A Stimson Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004616845 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
With a historical introduction and detailed descriptions of 65 mariner's astrolabes. All astrolabes described are illustrated on full pages.
Author: Hazel Conway Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134887159 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge of design history, art or architecture is assumed.
Author: Nicholas Goodison
Author: Nicholas Goodison
Author: N. Goodison
Author: Nicholas Goodison
Author: John M. Goodison
Author: Nicholas Goodison
Author: Vladimir Jankovic
Author: Gerard L'Estrange Turner
Author: Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
Author: A Stimson
Author: Hazel Conway