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Author: Isaac WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth Made Easy ... The Fifth Edition, Corrected. [With Plates.]
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Author: Isaac WattsThe knowledge of the heavens and the earth made easy, or the first principles of astronomy and geography explain'd by the use of globes and maps, etc. Edited by J. Eames
Author: Isaac WattsThe Knowledge of the Heavens & the Earth Made Easy
Author: Isaac WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth made easy ... The sixth edition, corrected. With plates
Author: Isaac WattsThe Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth Made Easy: Or, The First Principles of Astronomy and Geography
Author: Isaac WattsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Knowledge of the Heavens and the Earth Made Easy, Or the First Principles of Astronomy and Geography Explain'd by the Use of Globes and Maps, Etc. [Edited by J. Eames.]
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Author: Isaac WattsAstronomy ‘playne and simple’
Author: Isabel MoskowichPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027272506
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume includes methodological considerations and descriptions of some of the texts compiled in The Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), together with a number of pilot studies using these texts showing how the corpus can be used to investigate English Astronomy writing between 1700 and 1900, from a synchronic and a diachronic perspective.CETA is part of the Coruña Corpus of English Scientific Writing (CC). Since the CC was designed in 2003 with a sampling method by which extracts of 10,000 words were selected, this method has been followed in CETA, with samples from 42 different authors both from Europe and North America. Some extralinguistic parameters, such as year of publication, sex, geographical provenance and text-types/genres have been considered for text selection. According to late Modern English text typology, the samples in CETA can be grouped in eight different categories and such categories, as well as some other metadata information, can be used to search the corpus. CETA, together with the Coruña Corpus Tool purpose-designed software by IrLab, was originally made available with the volume on CD-rom. As of early 2019, these are also accessible online at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850 and CETA at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21848
The Geographic Revolution in Early America
Author: Martin BrücknerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
Four Centuries of Special Geography
Author: O.F.G. SitwellPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
Enlightenment, Modernity and Science
Author: Paul A. ElliotPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857718967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Scientific culture was one of the defining characteristics of the English Enlightenment. The latest discoveries were debated in homes, institutions and towns around the country. But how did the dissemination of scientific knowledge vary with geographical location? What were the differing influences in town and country and from region to region? Enlightenment, Modernity and Science provides the first full length study of the geographies of Georgian scientific culture in England. The author takes the reader on a tour of the principal arenas in which scientific ideas were disseminated, including home, town and countryside, to show how cultures of science and knowledge varied across the Georgian landscape. Taking in key figures such as Erasmus Darwin, Abraham Bennett, and Joseph Priestley along the way, it is a work that sheds important light on the complex geographies of Georgian English scientific culture.