Author: George Lightfoot HuyshePublisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Red River Expedition, 1870
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Red River Expedition
Author: George Lightfoot HuyshePublisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Red River Expedition, 1870
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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.
The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo
Author: José ChabásPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401702136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is for historians working in the fields of astronomy, science, the Middle Ages, Spanish and other Romance languages. It is also of interest to scholars interested in the history of Castile, in Castilian-French relations in the Middle Ages and in the history of patronage. It explores the Castilian canons of the Alfonsine Tables and offers a study of their context, language, astronomical content, and diffusion. The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo is unique in that it: includes an edition of a crucial text in history of science; provides an explanation of astronomy as it was practiced in the Middle Ages; presents abundant material on early scientific language in Castilian; presents new material on the diffusion of Alfonsine astronomy in Europe; describes the role of royal patronage of science in a medieval context.
Derrotero de las Costas de España en el O. Atlántico
Author: Vicente TOFIÑO DE SAN MIGUELPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Theorica Verdadeira Das Marés, Conforme À Philosophia Do Incomparavel Cavalhero Isaac Newton ... Illustrado Tudo com Variedade de Figuras, Etc
Author: Jacob de Castro SarmentoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Thesouro de prudentes ... Nouamente acrescentado, e ampliado com as estampas emendadas, nesta quinta impressão ... Correcto ... e acrescentado de hũ Tratado pera se saber de cor as horas da marè ... pello Sargento Mayor Gonçalo Gomes Caldeira, etc
Author: Gaspar CARDOZO DE SEQUEIRAPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Astronomy and Empire in the Ancient Andes
Author: Brian S. BauerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This joint project of an astrophysicist (Dearborn) and an archeologist (Bauer) was written for the use of astronomers, archeologists, and historians. Includes sufficient background information for readers with little or no knowledge of the Andes. Text sheds new light on relationship between Inca cosmology and social structure"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Clave Historical Con Que Se Abre la Puerta a la Historia Eclesiastica Y Politica (etc.) 2. Ed. Corr
Author: Henrique FlorezMemorias Antiguas Historiales Y Políticas Del Perú
Author: Sabine HylandPublisher: Yale Peabody Museum
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This is a transcription of Spanish priest and explorer Fernando de Montesinos' 1644 manuscript for Book II of Memorias historiales, a rare reference on early Peru and Andean culture. Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum
The Return of Astraea
Author: Frederick A. de ArmasPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813181933
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
In classical mythology Astraea, the goddess of justice, chastity, and truth, was the last of the immortals to leave Earth with the decline of the ages. Her return was to signal the dawn of a new Golden Age. This myth not only survived the Christian Middle Ages but also became a commonplace in the Renaissance when courtly poets praised their patrons and princes by claiming that Astraea guided them. The literary cult of Astraea persisted in the sixteenth century as writers saw in Elizabeth I of England the imperial Astraea who would lead mankind to peace through universal rule. This and other late flowerings of the Astraea myth should not be taken as the final phases of her history. Frederick A. de Armas documents in this book what may well be the last great rebirth of Astraea, one that is probably of greater political, religious, and literary significance than others previously described by historians and literary critics. The Return of Astraea focuses on the seventeenth-century Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and analyzes the deity's presence in thirteen of his plays, including his masterpiece, La Vida es Sueho. Her popularity in this period is partially attributed to political motives, reflecting the aspirations and fears of the Spanish monarch Philip IV. In this broad study, grounded on such diverse fields as astrology, iconography, history, mythology, and philosophy, de Armas explains that Astraea adopts many guises in Calderón's dramas. Ranging from the Kabbalah to Platonic thought and from satires on Olivares to cosmogonic myths, he analyzes and reinterprets Calderón's theater from a wide range of perspectives centered on the playwright's utilization of the myth of Astraea. The book thus represents a new view of Calderón's dramaturgy and also documents the popularity and significance of this astral-imperial myth during the Spanish Golden Age.