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A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language

Author: Hermann Michaelis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description

A Phonetic Dictionary of the English Language

Author: Hermann Michaelis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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The Book Nobody Read

Author: Owen Gingerich
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802718124
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
After three decades of investigation, and after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles across the globe-from Melbourne to Moscow, Boston to Beijing-Gingerich has written an utterly original book built on his experience and the remarkable insights gleaned from examining some 600 copies of De revolutionibus. He found the books owned and annotated by Galileo, Kepler and many other lesser-known astronomers whom he brings back to life, which illuminate the long, reluctant process of accepting the Sun-centered cosmos and highlight the historic tensions between science and the Catholic Church. He traced the ownership of individual copies through the hands of saints, heretics, scalawags, and bibliomaniacs. He was called as the expert witness in the theft of one copy, witnessed the dramatic auction of another, and proves conclusively that De revolutionibus was as inspirational as it was revolutionary. Part biography of a book, part scientific exploration, part bibliographic detective story, The Book Nobody Read recolors the history of cosmology and offers new appreciation of the enduring power of an extraordinary book and its ideas.

Correspondence

Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Evolution in the Past

Author: Henry Robert Knipe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Collectors and Curiosities

Author: Krzysztof Pomian
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745606804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
This outstanding and highly original study examines the history of collecting in early modern Europe, and describes the myriad treasures, from paintings and antiques to religious relics, that found their way into the private collections and public museums of the time. The author looks at the types of people who formed collections, from the harmless eccentrics to the wily speculators, and examines what they collected and why. He develops a historical anthropology of collecting and sheds new light upon the genesis of the modern museum. Pomian charts the changes in fashion which characterised the world of collecting, arguing that such shifts can be seen as a sign of wider and more profound changes in mentality and can be analysed in terms of a conflict between aesthetic and historical sensibilities.