Author: Camillo CornerPublisher:
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Languages : it
Pages : 72
Book Description
Tre Dissertazioni Sui Principii Della Repubblica Di Venezia ... di C. C.
Author: Camillo CornerHistorical Seismology
Author: Julien FréchetPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402082223
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is dedicated to the use of new approaches and presents a state-of-the-art in historical seismology. Selected historical and recent earthquakes are chosen to document and constrain related seismic parameters using updated methodologies in the macroseismic analysis, field observations of damage distribution and tectonic effects, and modelling of seismic waveforms.
Debating Lapita
Author: Stuart BedfordPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760463310
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
‘This volume is the most comprehensive review of Lapita research to date, tackling many of the lingering questions regarding origin and dispersal. Multidisciplinary in nature with a focus on summarising new findings, but also identifying important gaps that can help direct future research.’ — Professor Scott Fitzpatrick, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon ‘This substantial volume offers a welcome update on the definition of the Lapita culture. It significantly refreshes the knowledge on this foundational archaeological culture of the Pacific Islands in providing new data on sites and assemblages, and new discussions of hypotheses previously proposed.’ — Dr Frédérique Valentin, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system represented on it and on further incised pots. Modern research now encompasses a whole range of aspects associated with Lapita and this is reflected in this volume. The broad overlapping themes of the volume—Lapita distribution and chronology, society and subsistence—relate to research questions that have long been debated in relation to Lapita.
The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment
Author: Kostas GavrogluPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792365631
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.
Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi
Author: Bella Brover-LubovskyPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253351294
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
"The book combines theory and practice, discussing the theoretical aspects and practical realization of the arrangement of tonal space in terms of their contemporary reception. Brover-Lubovsky's approach is therefore directed toward a study of the musical repertory mapped onto the canvas of contemporary musical thought, including theory, pedagogy, reception, and aesthetics. Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi is a substantial contribution to a better understanding of Vivaldi's individual style, while illuminating wider processes of stylistic development and of the diffusion of artistic ideas in the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Giambattista Nolli and Rome
Author: Ian Verstegen Allan CeenPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105989704
Category : Cartographers
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Linnaeus in Italy
Author: Marco BerettaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty MuiseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892360062
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 4 is a compendium of articles and notes pertaining to the Museum’s permanent collections of decorative arts. This volume includes an introduction and two articles by Gillian Wilson, Curator of Decorative Arts. Volume 4 also features articles by Jiří Frel, the Museum’s Curator of Antiquities; Edith Standen, Curatorial Consultant, Department of Western European Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Geraldine Hussman, California State University at Northridge; Jean-Luc Bordeaux, Professor of Art History and Director of the Fine Arts Gallery, California State University at Northridge; and Faya Causey, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Passovers of Blood
Author: Ariel ToaffPublisher: Clemens & Blair, LLC
ISBN: 9781734804218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
For centuries, Jews have been accused of something called "blood libel" or "ritual murder": the killing of non-Jews, often children, to use their blood in bizarre religious ceremonies or to make food. For centuries, this has been denied by Jews. But in fact there may be some truth to such claims after all.
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