Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise I-VIII.: Geology and mineralogy considerd with reference to natural theology, by William Buckland. 2d ed
Author: The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise I-VIII.: On the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation of animals, by William Kirby. 2d ed
Author: Catalogue of the Parliamentary Library of South Australia
Author: Parliamentary Library of South AustraliaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
"Brings forward the previous catalogue to the end of July, 1871."--Pref.
The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise I-IX.: On the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation of animals, by William Kirby. 2d ed
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Essay on Classification
Author: Louis AgassizPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486151352
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A major influence on the development of American scientific culture, Swiss-born Louis Agassiz (1807–73) was one of the great scientists of his day. A student of anatomist Georges Cuvier, Agassiz adapted his teacher's pioneering techniques of comparative anatomy to paleontology, and he rose to prominence as a distinguished systematist, paleontologist, and educator. Agassiz introduced science to ordinary citizens to an unprecedented degree; people around the world read his books, sent him specimens, and consulted his opinion. Agassiz was also a staunch opponent of the theory of evolution, and he was among the last of the reputable scientists who continued to reject the concept after the publication of The Origin of the Species. All of nature bore testimony to a divine plan, Agassiz believed, and he could not reconcile himself to a theory that did not invoke God's design. Ironically, his 1851 Essay on Classification provided Darwin and other evolutionists with evidence from the fossil record to support the theory of natural selection. A treasure of historically valuable insights that contributed to the development of evolutionary biology, this volume introduced the landmark contention that paleontology, embryology, ecology, and biogeography are inextricably linked in classifications that reveal the true relationships between organisms. Its emphasis on advanced and original work gave major impetus to the study of science directly from nature, and it remains a classic of American scientific literature.
The Catalogue of the History of Science Collections of the University of Oklahoma Libraries
Author: University of Oklahoma. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Function and Fantasy: Iron Architecture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Paul DobraszczykPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317131401
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The introduction of iron – and later steel – construction and decoration transformed architecture in the nineteenth century. While the structural employment of iron has been a frequent subject of study, this book re-directs scholarly scrutiny on its place in the aesthetics of architecture in the long nineteenth century. Together, its eleven unique and original chapters chart – for the first time – the global reach of iron’s architectural reception, from the first debates on how iron could be incorporated into architecture’s traditional aesthetics to the modernist cleaving of its structural and ornamental roles. The book is divided into three sections. Formations considers the rising tension between the desire to translate traditional architectural motifs into iron and the nascent feeling that iron buildings were themselves creating an entirely new field of aesthetic expression. Exchanges charts the commercial and cultural interactions that took place between British iron foundries and clients in far-flung locations such as Argentina, Jamaica, Nigeria and Australia. Expressing colonial control as well as local agency, iron buildings struck a balance between pre-fabricated functionalism and a desire to convey beauty, value and often exoticism through ornament. Transformations looks at the place of the aesthetics of iron architecture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period in which iron ornament sought to harmonize wide social ambitions while offering the tantalizing possibility that iron architecture as a whole could transform the fundamental meanings of ornament. Taken together, these chapters call for a re-evaluation of modernism’s supposedly rationalist interest in nineteenth-century iron structures, one that has potentially radical implications for the recent ornamental turn in contemporary architecture.
Catalogue of a collection of books formed by William G. Medlicott
Author: William Gibbons MedlicottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: A-L
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description