Author: Roger D. StonePublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611686563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The true story of the last Renaissance man
The Lives of Dillon Ripley
Author: Roger D. StonePublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1611686563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The true story of the last Renaissance man
The Lives of Dillon Ripley
Author: Roger D. StonePublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 151260061X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a Òcourtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearerÓ who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During his watch, from 1964 to 1984, the SI added eight new museums and seven new research centers and began publication of the Smithsonian magazine. It was RipleyÕs vision that transformed Òthe nationÕs atticÓ from a dusty archive to a vibrant educational and cultural institution, just as he had transformed YaleÕs Peabody museum before it. Prior to his career at the SI, and running parallel with it for the rest of his life, was RipleyÕs work as an ornithologist, begun in New Guinea in the 1930s, continued through his PhD from Harvard in 1943, and culminating in his landmark thirty-year project documenting the bird life of India. His lifelong passion for ornithology led him to positions of leadership in worldwide nature conservation. In the midst of these endeavors he was recruited in 1944 to the Office of Strategic Services, a Yalie club at the outset that became the forerunner of the modern CIA. Posted to Ceylon, he recruited and ran agents who reported from and infiltrated Japanese-held Southeast Asia. Roger D. Stone worked with Ripley on the board of the World Wildlife Fund. He has access to the Ripley familyÕs archives and photos, as well as to the voluminous archives at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and to over forty hours of transcribed interviews, conducted with Ripley at the Smithsonian.
Music and the Making of Modern Science
Author: Peter PesicPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543907
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line.
The sacred grove
Author: Sidney Dillon RipleyPublisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1684941407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
New York Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Includes decisions of the Supreme Court and various intermediate and lower courts of record; May/Aug. 1888-Sept../Dec. 1895, Superior Court of New York City; Mar./Apr. 1926-Dec. 1937/Jan. 1938, Court of Appeals.
The New York Supplement
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
"Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State). Court of Appeals.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Volume contains: 192 NY 538 (Matter of Hansen) 192 NY 564 (Matter of Hansen) 192 NY 35 (Matter of Goldsticker) 192 NY 538 (Matter of Hoyt) 192 NY 536 (Matter of Ripley)
Supreme Court
Author: The Miscellaneous Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Surrogate's Courts of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Surrogates' CourtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description