Author: Sue Ann Prince
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
The Princess & the Patriot
Author: Sue Ann Prince
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699619
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia's Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). The essays in this vol., pub. as a companion to an exhib. of the same title & on the occasion of the Franklin Tercentenary of 2006, highlight Dashkova as an accomplished Enlightenment woman. They explore how she, like Franklin, took up the challenge of living according to the newest ideals of her age. Nominated by Franklin in 1789 to become the first female member of the APS, she in turn made him the first Amer. member of the Russian Acad.
Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses
Author: Howard Pyle
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486448320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This volume contains more than sixty of Pyle's best works.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486448320
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
This volume contains more than sixty of Pyle's best works.
History Of The Girondists; Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots Of The French Revolution
Author: Alphonse De Lamartine
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Patriot Games
Author: Tom Clancy
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425109724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425109724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a nation and the enmity of its most dangerous men
Women in the History of Science
Author: Hannah Wills
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800084153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture. While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800084153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research. Arranged by time period, covering 1200 BCE to the twenty-first century, and across 12 inclusive and far-reaching themes, this book is an invaluable companion to students and lecturers alike in exploring women’s history in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, medicine and culture. While women are too often excluded from traditional narratives of the history of science, this book centres on the voices and experiences of women across a range of domains of knowledge. By questioning our understanding of what science is, where it happens, and who produces scientific knowledge, this book is an aid to liberating the curriculum within schools and universities.
Leonhard Euler
Author: Robert E. Bradley
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080471293
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler's innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science.- Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich- New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova- New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080471293
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy, the influence of the Russian Princess Dashkova, and Euler's philosophy. Others describe his influence on the subsequent growth of European mathematics and physics in the 19th century. Still others give technical details of Euler's innovations in probability, number theory, geometry, analysis, astronomy, mechanics and other fields of mathematics and science.- Over 20 essays by some of the best historians of mathematics and science, including Ronald Calinger, Peter Hoffmann, Curtis Wilson, Kim Plofker, Victor Katz, Ruediger Thiele, David Richeson, Robin Wilson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Karin Reich- New details of Euler's life in two essays, one by Ronald Calinger and one he co-authored with Elena Polyakhova- New information on Euler's work in differential geometry, series, mechanics, and other important topics including his influence in the early 19th century
The Princess's Garden
Author: Vanessa Berridge
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445643367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445643367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be.
Three Political Tragedies: Napoleon, The Lion at Bay, The Tyrolese Patriots
Author: Charles Gershom Fall
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The British Plutarch, Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Statesmen, Patriots, Divines ... of Great Britain and Ireland from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Present Time, Including a Complete History of that Æra. A New Edition. Revised ... and ... Enlarged by the Editor T. Mortimer [the Author of the Whole.]
History of the Girondists; or, Personal memoirs of the patriots of the French revoluton
Author: Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description