Author: John William BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monsters
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Teratogenesis: an Inquiry Into the Causes of Monstrosities. History of the Theories of the Past
Author: John William BallantynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monsters
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Margaret T. HodgenPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206711
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Although social sciences such as anthropology are often thought to have been organized as academic specialties in the nineteenth century, the ideas upon which these disciplines were founded actually developed centuries earlier. In fact, the foundational concepts can be traced at least as far back as the sixteenth century, when contact with unfamiliar peoples in the New World led Europeans to create ways of describing and understanding social similarities and differences among humans. Early Anthropology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries examines the history of some of the ideas adopted to help understand the origin of culture, the diversity of traits, the significance of similarities, the sequence of high civilizations, the course of cultural change, and the theory of social evolution. It is a book that not only illuminates the thinking of a bygone age but also sheds light on the sources of attitudes still prevalent today.
The Zoological Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 1074
Book Description
Indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered.
Edinburgh Medical Journal
Author: St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311069378X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
Author: Edinburgh Obstetrical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gynecology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes List of fellows on each vol.
A History of Embryology
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107475546
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
First published in 1959, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth to the close of the eighteenth century.
Heredity
Author: John Arthur ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genetics
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description