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Author: Thomas Ignatius M. ForsterPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or rather written] by T. Forster
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Author: Thomas Ignatius M. ForsterPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack
Author: Thomas ForsterPublisher:
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Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
The Perennial Calendar, and Companion to the Almanack; Illustrating the Events of Every Day in the Year, as Connected with History, Chronology, Botany, Etc. With Useful Rules of Health, Observations on the Weather, Etc. Compiled from Scientific Authorities as Well as from the Manuscripts of Several Distinguished Persons, and Revised and Edited by T. F.
Author: Thomas FORSTER (F.L.S.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Perpetual Companion; or, Key to the almanack, giving a faithful explanation of the origin and nature of almanacks ... Corrected and improved
Author: Catalogue of the Library
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Seasons
Author: Nick GroomPublisher: Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1782392068
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to us now that we lead increasingly atomized and urban lives and our weather becomes ever more unpredictable or extreme? Will it matter if we no longer hear, even notice, the first cuckoo call of spring or rejoice in the mellow fruits of harvest festival? How much will we lose if we can no longer find either refuge or reassurance in the greater natural—and meteorological—scheme of things? Nick Groom's splendidly rich and encyclopedic book is an unabashed celebration of the English seasons and the trove of strange folklore and often stranger fact they have accumulated over the centuries. Each season and its particular history are given their full due, and these chapters are interwoven with others on the calendar and how the year and months have come to be measured, on important dates and festivals such as Easter, May Day and, of course, Christmas, on that defining first cuckoo call, on national attitudes to weather, our seasonal relationship with the land and horticulture and much more. The author expresses the hope that his book will not prove an elegy: only time will tell.
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Investigating the Origin of the Asteroids and Early Findings on Vesta
Author: Clifford J. CunninghamPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331958118X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807. Wilhelm Olbers, who discovered Vesta, suggested that the asteroids were the result of a primordial planet’s explosion. Cunningham studies that idea in detail through the writings of Sir David Brewster in Scotland, the era's most prolific writer about the asteroids. He also examines the link between meteorites and asteroids, revealing a synergy between Ernst Chladni, Romantic symbolism, and the music of the spheres. Vesta was a lightning rod for controversy throughout the nineteenth century with observers arguing over its size and color, and the astounding notion that it was self-luminous. It was also a major force for change, as new methods in the field of celestial mechanics were developed to study the orbital perturbations it is subject to. A large selection of private correspondence and scientific papers complete the first comprehensive historical study of Vesta ever published. With a synoptic look at the four asteroids, Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta, Cunningham provides a valuable resource on asteroid origins and explains how they were integrated into the newly revealed solar system of the early nineteenth century.
Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Writers to the Signet. In Four Parts, with a General Index. (Rules and Regulations for the Library, Etc.)
Author: Society of Writers to the Signet (EDINBURGH). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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