Author: Paul EdmondsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526134543
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
John Hall, Master of Physicke
Author: Paul EdmondsonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526134543
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
John Hall, Master of Physicke
Author: Greg WellsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781526134530
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Written by Shakespeare's son-in-law John Hall, The Little Book of Cures is a fascinating look into the life of a doctor in seventeenth-century Stratford-upon-Avon.
Select Observations on English Bodies, Or, Cures Both Empericall and Historicall Performed Upon Very Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases
Author: John HallSonnets. Poems
Author: William ShakespeareWhy Geese Don't Get Obese (And We Do)
Author: Eric P. WidmaierPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466807067
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
What drives us to eat and accounts for different appetites? Why is breathing at high altitudes easy for birds and difficult for humans? Why do animals have two sets of sensory organs--eyes, ears, nostrils, etc...? In Why Geese Don't Get Obese, physiologist Eric Widmaier describes the astonishing ways humans and other creatures have adapted to their environmental challenges in order to survive. Surprising examples, a sense of humor, and some insightful science make this book a delightful and lively read.
Wonders and the Order of Nature 1150–1750
Author: Lorraine DastonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
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.
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Author: John SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780598359865
Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Devil in Britain and America
Author: John AshtonThe Clarke Papers
Author: Sir William ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Life After Gravity
Author: Patricia FaraPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198841027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The story of Isaac Newton's decades in London - as ambitious cosmopolitan gentleman, President of London's Royal Society, Master of the Mint, and investor in the slave trade. Isaac Newton is celebrated throughout the world as a great scientific genius who conceived the theory of gravity. But in his early fifties, he abandoned his life as a reclusive university scholar to spend three decades in London, a long period of metropolitan activity that is often overlooked. Enmeshed in Enlightenment politics and social affairs, Newton participated in the linked spheres of early science and imperialist capitalism. Instead of the quiet cloisters and dark libraries of Cambridge's all-male world, he now moved in fashionable London society, which was characterized by patronage relationships, sexual intrigues and ruthless ambition. Knighted by Queen Anne, and a close ally of influential Whig politicians, Newton occupied a powerful position as President of London's Royal Society. He also became Master of the Mint, responsible for the nation's money at a time of financial crisis, and himself making and losing small fortunes on the stock market. A major investor in the East India Company, Newton benefited from the global trading networks that relied on selling African captives to wealthy plantation owners in the Americas, and was responsible for monitoring the import of African gold to be melted down for English guineas. Patricia Fara reveals Newton's life as a cosmopolitan gentleman by focussing on a Hogarth painting of an elite Hanoverian drawing room. Gazing down from the mantelpiece, a bust of Newton looms over an aristocratic audience watching their children perform a play about European colonialism and the search for gold. Packed with Newtonian imagery, this conversation piece depicts the privileged, exploitative life in which this eminent Enlightenment figure engaged, an uncomfortable side of Newton's life with which we are much less familiar.