Author: Antonius van DalePublisher:
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Category : Oracles
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests
Author: Antonius van DalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oracles
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests. Written in Latin by Dr. Van-Dale. Made English by Mrs. Behn [from Fontenelle's French Adaptation of A. Van Dale's Work “De Oraculis Ethnicorum,” Entitled “Histoire Des Oracles”].
![The History of Oracles, and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests. Written in Latin by Dr. Van-Dale. Made English by Mrs. Behn [from Fontenelle's French Adaptation of A. Van Dale's Work “De Oraculis Ethnicorum,” Entitled “Histoire Des Oracles”]. PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/z-ZoAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The History of Oracles and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests, Etc. [A Translation of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's “Histoire Des Oracles”, an Adaptation of Anthony Van Dale's Work “De Oraculis Ethnicorum”. The Translator's Dedicatory Epistle Signed: A. B., I.e. Alphra Behn.]
![The History of Oracles and the Cheats of the Pagan Priests, Etc. [A Translation of Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's “Histoire Des Oracles”, an Adaptation of Anthony Van Dale's Work “De Oraculis Ethnicorum”. The Translator's Dedicatory Epistle Signed: A. B., I.e. Alphra Behn.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/bLtjAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: The History of Oracles
Author: M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)Publisher:
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Category : Oracles
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Richard Henry PopkinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004095960
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This volume seeks to clarify and understand the challenges made to both the framework of thinking about God and religion in the 17th and 18th centuries and to the intellectual systems that had supported religious thinking earlier. Ample attention is given to early-modern interpretations of ancient Pyrrhonism and to biblical criticism.
Wonder and Science
Author: Mary Baine CampbellPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501705067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology—from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography.
Hey Presto!
Author: Hugh Ormsby-LennonPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 161149012X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
In Hey Presto! Swift and the Quacks, Hugh Ormsby-Lennon reveals how medicine shows, both ancient and modern, galvanized Jonathan Swift's imagination and inspired his wittiest satiric voices. Swift dubbed these multifaceted traveling entertainments his Stage-itinerant or "Mountebank's Stage." In the course of arguing that the stage-itinerant formed an irresistible model for A Tale of a Tub, Ormsby-Lennon also surmises that the mountebank's stage will disclose that missing link, long sought, that connects the dual objects of Swift's ire: gross corruptions in both Religion and Learning.
A catalogue of the library of the College of st. Margaret and st. Bernard, commonly called Queen's college, in the University of Cambridge
Author: Thomas Hartwell HornePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard
Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the Late John Henry Wrenn...
Author: University of Texas. Library. John Henry Wrenn libraryPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description