Author: Joannes JONSTONUS (M.D., Polonus.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, with their figures engraven in brass ... Translated into English by J. P.
Author: Joannes JONSTONUS (M.D., Polonus.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Milton's Visual Imagination
Author: Stephen B. DobranskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316368696
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Critics have traditionally found fault with the descriptions and images in John Milton's poetry and thought of him as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton's Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. He contends that Milton's imagery - traditionally disparaged by critics - advances the epic's narrative while expressing the author's heterodox beliefs. In particular, Milton exploits the meaning of objects and gestures to overcome the inherent difficulty of his subject and to accommodate seventeenth-century readers. Bringing together Milton's material philosophy with an analysis of both his poetic tradition and cultural circumstances, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of early modern visual culture as well as of Milton's epic.
The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects
Author: Edward TopsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136956573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2216
Book Description
First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.
The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts) Nobleman's letters. Goody Two-shoes. Index
Author: Oliver GoldsmithSports, Pastimes, Arts, Sciences
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
History of Four Footed Beasts and Serpents and Insects
Author: TopsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113662757X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Aristotle on How Animals Move
Author: Andrea FalconPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108865275
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus but is one of the least studied Aristotelian works both by ancient and modern interpreters. Yet it is a treatise where we can see, with some clarity and detail, Aristotle's methodology at work. This volume contains a new critical edition of the Greek text, an English translation, and nine in-depth interpretative essays. A general introduction that focuses on the explanatory strategies adopted by Aristotle in the De incessu animalium plus a historical essay on the reception of this work in antiquity and beyond open the volume. No other work of this kind has been published in any modern language.
The Animal World displayd or the Nature and qualities of living Creatures
Author: Frederick WatsonThe Animal World Displayed, Or the Nature and Qualities of Living Creatures Described
Author: Frederick WATSON (Naturalist)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A Philosophical Account of the Works of Nature
Author: Richard BradleyPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description