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Lombardia Illuminata

Author: Dianne Suzette Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Reinventing Eden

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136161244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.

Volta

Author: Giuliano Pancaldi
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188610
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. Examining the social and scientific contexts in which Volta operated--as well as Europe's reception of his most famous invention--Volta also offers a sustained inquiry into long-term features of science and technology as they developed in the early age of electricity. Pancaldi considers the voltaic cell, or battery, as a case study of Enlightenment notions and their consequences, consequences that would include the emergence of the "scientist" at the expense of the "natural philosopher." Throughout, Pancaldi highlights the complex intellectual, technological, and social ferment that ultimately led to our industrial societies. In so doing, he suggests that today's supporters and critics of Enlightenment values underestimate the diversity and contingency inherent in science and technology--and may be at odds needlessly. Both an absorbing biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, this book offers new insights into the legacies of the Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery.

American Doctoral Dissertations

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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Perspectives on Garden Histories

Author: Michel Conan
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022657
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Comprising ten papers which critically examine the field of garden history, presented at the twenty-first Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good

Lombardia Illuminata

Reinventing Eden

Volta

American Doctoral Dissertations

Perspectives on Garden Histories

The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection: Italian and Spanish books, fifteenth through nineteenth centuries

I Lutti di Lombardia. Austrian Assassinations in Lombardy. Edited by F. Prandi. Translated from the Italian

The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century

Landscape Journal

Milan and Lombardy in the Renaissance