Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Sylva sylvarum: or a Naturall Historie. In ten centuries ... Published after the Authors death. By William Rawley. (New Atlantis. A Worke unfinished.) With an engraved portrait
Author: Francis BaconA Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Sylva Sylvarum: Or, A Natural History. In Ten Centuries;
Author: Francis BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Cataloque of the Books in the Bencher's Library of the Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, with an Index of Subjects
Author: Gray's Inn. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World
Author: Margaret CavendishPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460405900
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing World, Cavendish depicts her heroine, the Empress, in multiple roles. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned from Earth. A companion volume to Cavendish’s important Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Blazing World is the first science-fiction novel known to have been written and published by a woman, and represents a pioneering female scientific utopia. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish’s role in the intellectual world of her time.
Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University: Serial publications - Authors and titles
Author: Arnold Arboretum. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Paper Bodies
Author: Margaret CavendishPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1770487883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.
Discovering Gilgamesh
Author: Vybarr Cregan-ReidPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526102382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian ‘slush pile’, George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah’s Flood. His research suggested this ‘Deluge Tablet’ pre-dated the writing of Genesis by a millennium or more. Smith went on to translate what later became The Epic of Gilgamesh, perhaps the oldest and most complete work of literature from any culture. Against the backdrop of innovative readings of a range of paintings, novels, histories and photographs (by figures like Dickens, Eliot, James, Dyce, Turner, Macaulay and Carlyle), this book demonstrates the Gordian complexity of the Victorians’ relationship with history, while also seeking to highlight the Epic’s role in influencing models of time in late-Victorian geology. Discovering Gilgamesh will be of interest to readers, students and researchers in literary studies, Victorian studies, history, intellectual history, art history and archaeology.
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of ManchesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description