Author: John TimbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Author: Charles W. VincentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements of the Past Year; in Mechanics and the Useful Arts; Natural Philosophy; Electricity; Chemistry; Zoology and Botany; Geology and Mineralogy; Meteorology and Astronomy by John Timbs
Author: John TimbsYear-book of Facts in Science and the Arts
Author: Charles W. VincentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
Author: John TimbsThe Historical Finger-Post ... Second Edition
Author: Edward SHELTON (Miscellaneous Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Knowledge for the Time
Author: John TimbsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732631788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Knowledge for the Time by John Timbs
The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
School-days of Eminent Men, Or, Early Lives of Celebrated British Authors, Philosophers, and Poets, Inventors and Discoverers, Divines, Heroes, Statesmen and Legislators
Author: Timbs (John)Knowledge for the Time: A Manual of Reading, Reference, and Conversation on Subjects of Living Interest, Useful Curiosity, and Amusing Research
Author: John TimbsPublisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736413866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The great value of contemporary History—that is, history written by actual witnesses of the events which they narrate,—is now beginning to be appreciated by general readers. The improved character of the journalism of the present day is the best evidence of this advancement, which has been a work of no ordinary labour. Truth is not of such easy acquisition as is generally supposed; and the chances of obtaining unprejudiced accounts of events are rarely improved by distance from the time at which they happen. In proportion as freedom of thought is enlarged, and liberty of conscience, and liberty of will, are increased, will be the amount of trustworthiness in the written records of contemporaries. It is the rarity of these high privileges in chroniclers of past events which has led to so many obscurities in the world's history, and warpings in the judgment of its writers; to trust some of whom has been compared to reading with "coloured spectacles." And, one of the features of our times is to be ever taking stock of the amount of truth in past history; to set readers on the tenters of doubt, and to make them suspicious of perversions; and to encourage a whitewashing of black reputations which sometimes strays into an extreme equally as unserviceable to truth as that from which the writer started. It is, however, with the view of correcting the Past by the light of the Present, and directing attention to many salient points of Knowledge for the Time, that the present volume is offered to the public. Its aim may be considered great in proportion to the limited means employed; but, to extend what is, in homely phrase, termed a right understanding, the contents of the volume are of a mixed character, the Author having due respect for the[v] emphatic words of Dr.