Author: Jacob Norton (of Boston.)Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Masonic Fiction Exploded
Author: Jacob Norton (of Boston.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The State of the Laboratory
Author: Coleridge
Author: Richard GarnettThe Royal Academy of Arts
Author: Algernon GravesPublisher:
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The History of Bath
Author: Richard WarnerThe Ferment of Knowledge
Author: George Sebastian RousseauPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521087186
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted by historians of science: The development of science is no longer described as a steady progress towards truth - certainties have given way to questions. The essays in this volume scrutinize these changing perspectives in historiography and recommend paths for future study. The eighteenth century has been a neglected and much-misunderstood era in the development of science, all too often viewed as something of a trough between the towering achievements of the 'Scientific Revolution' and the nineteenth century. Yet it was a period of notable developments; it saw the establishment of such fields as electricity and heat, the 'chemical revolution', the new science of gases, the isolation of oxygen, the nebular hypothesis in cosmology, the foundation of rational mechanics, and the birth pangs of biology, geology and psychology. It was, indeed, an age when knowledge was in ferment.
A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors
Author: John Foster KirkPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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The Post Office London Directory
Author: Yvain
Author: Chretien de TroyesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Gentlemen of Science
Author: Jack MorrellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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