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Author: Jennifer S. Uglow Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374528888 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 625
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In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
Author: Jennifer S. Uglow Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374528888 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 625
Book Description
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
Author: Carl J. Becker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450224504 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 358
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While the discoveries of modern academia have deconstructed and replaced all of Victorian science in detail we remain addicted to the Darwinian theory of biological evolution. Darwinists bicker with their dialectical counterpart, Creationism, as if nothing else could possibly exist. Is it not past time for us to evolve into the 21st century and reflect the database of modern science, or is this yet another cultural institution that is too big to fail? Letters of Recommendation I thoroughly enjoy your writing and your play with ideas. Dare I confess that I keep your book on my night table and sample it at the end of the evening to settle my mind for sleep. I am pleased to know you as my former student. Walter J. Freeman III, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Thank you for your most enjoyable MS. A lovely piece: scholarly and entertaining, witty-ironic and educational, comic and playful, fine-tuned psychologically and easily flowing-streaming Roland Fischer, Department of Philosophy, University of the Balearic Islands As a microbiologist, I must say that it is impeccable. Mario Vaneechoutte, Department of Clinical Chemistry, University Hospital, Ghent The kind of work you are doing, which has merit in itself, is not appreciated by any run-of-the-mill academic unit in Universities that I know. Roger Hahn, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Author: Kathy Farmer Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665599065 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 82
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Now in her 90th year Kathy’s book contains compelling fragments of her life. Her story vividly chronicles so many aspects of her amazing and varied life across the years - from being a WW2 child evacuee with her twin brother, her first job after leaving school and her first fascinating boyfriends. “Fragments” relates how her parents forced decisions upon her which she regretted at the time. The book explains how Kathy came to meet John - her first husband, and their long marriage of 48 years until his death. Kathy speaks about her exciting experiences as a singer and actress on the amateur stage in the Midlands. In her mid years we learn how Kathy became drawn to the Christian faith, and how she became a Reader in the Anglican Church, where for many years she preached and ministered in the country churches along Offa’s Dyke. The story allows us to appreciate how keen a horsewoman she was and how Kathy was steeped in country lore. Finally Kathy tells how it is possible to live once again after facing the traumatic loss of her first husband.
Author: Christopher Upham Murray Smith Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9780754636717 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 452
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The Genius of Erasmus Darwin provides insight into the full extent of Erasmus Darwin's exceptional intellect. He is shown to be a major creative thinker and innovator, one of the minds behind the late eighteenth-century industrial revolution, and one of the first, if not the first, to perceive the living world (including humans) as part of a unified evolutionary scenario. The contributions here provide contextual understandings of Erasmus Darwin's thought, as well as studies of particular works and accounts of the later reception of his writings. In this way it is possible to see why the young Samuel Taylor Coleridge was moved to describe Darwin as 'the first literary character in Europe, and the most original-minded man'.Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was one of the leading intellectuals of eighteenth-century England. He was a man with an extraordinary range of interests and activities: he was a doctor, biologist, inventor, poet, linguist and botanist. He was also a founding member of the Lunar Society, an intellectual community that included such eminent men as James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood.
Author: Keith Johnson Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003850200 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 171
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Landmarks in the History of the English Language identifies twelve key landmarks spread throughout the language’s history to provide a lively and interesting introduction to the history of English. Each landmark focuses on one individual associated with the key moment which helps to engage the reader and provide the history of the language with a ‘human face’. The landmarks range from Alfred the Great and his attempts to further English through its use in education, to the spread of English worldwide and the work of the linguist Braj Kachru. The final chapter takes a look into the future through the writings of David Crystal. Whilst focusing on the specific events and people, the book includes a broad outline of the history of English so that the reader can locate each landmark within the language’s history. Written in a student-friendly style and with short activities available online, this book provides a brief introduction for those coming to the topic for the first time, as well an engaging supplementary text for those studying modules on the history of English on degrees in English Language, Linguistics and Literature. General readers with an interest in the English language and its history will also find the book engaging.
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