Author: IJ. van der MeulenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : nl
Pages : 7
Book Description
Nog een woord over 't afdammen der Zuiderzee
Author: IJ. van der MeulenEen woord over de afdamming der Zuiderzee
Author: IJ. van der MeulenJournal of economic and social geography
Author: Ocean Energy
Author: R. H. CharlierPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540779329
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Engineers’ dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true. Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tidal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those most successfully put the work. Large scale plants are capital intensive but smaller ones, particularly built in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitiveness considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.
Verklarend handwoordenboek der Nederlandsche taal
Author: Matthijs Jacobus KoenenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutch language
Languages : nl
Pages : 1224
Book Description
Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages
Author: Peter SchrijverPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134254490
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
History, archaeology, and human evolutionary genetics provide us with an increasingly detailed view of the origins and development of the peoples that live in Northwestern Europe. This book aims to restore the key position of historical linguistics in this debate by treating the history of the Germanic languages as a history of its speakers. It focuses on the role that language contact has played in creating the Germanic languages, between the first millennium BC and the crucially important early medieval period. Chapters on the origins of English, German, Dutch, and the Germanic language family as a whole illustrate how the history of the sounds of these languages provide a key that unlocks the secret of their genesis: speakers of Latin, Celtic and Balto-Finnic switched to speaking Germanic and in the process introduced a 'foreign accent' that caught on and spread at the expense of types of Germanic that were not affected by foreign influence. The book is aimed at linguists, historians, archaeologists and anyone who is interested in what languages can tell us about the origins of their speakers.
Galileo's Mistake
Author: Wade RowlandPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1611451566
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In a revisionist look at the seventeenth-century battle between ecclesiastical authorities and Galileo Galilei, Rowland provocatively challenges the prevailing view of the episode. The central issue for the inquisitors investigating Galileo's orthodoxy, insists Rowland, was never the sun-centered astronomy of Copernicus. No, much broader philosophical issues were at stake. And on these issues, Rowland argues, the church stood closer to the truth than did Galileo. The astronomer erred--in Rowland's judgment--not in his advocacy of Copernican theory but rather in his endorsement of a thoroughgoing mathematical empiricism. And while everyone now agrees with Galileo in accepting Copernicus, the doctrinaire empiricism Galileo deployed to advance Copernicanism looks as shallow and misleading to today's quantum physicists as it once did to the Renaissance theologians who forced Galileo to recant.
Globi Neerlandici
Author: Peter Van Der KrogtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004614079
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries, ca. 1525-1800.
Amsterdam
Author: Geert MakPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409000850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank. In this fascinating examination of the city's soul, part history, part travel guide, Geert Mak imaginatively recreates the lives of the early Amsterdammers, and traces Amsterdam's progress from waterlogged settlement to a major financial centre and thriving modern metropolis
A Short History of Amsterdam
Author: Richter RoegholtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Languages : nl
Pages : 168
Book Description