Author: Dianne Suzette HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Lombardia Illuminata
Author: Dianne Suzette HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Volta
Author: Giuliano PancaldiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188610
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Giuliano Pancaldi sets us within the cosmopolitan cultures of Enlightenment Europe to tell the story of Alessandro Volta--the brilliant man whose name is forever attached to electromotive force. Providing fascinating details, many previously unknown, Pancaldi depicts Volta as an inventor who used his international network of acquaintances to further his quest to harness the power of electricity. This is the story of a man who sought recognition as a natural philosopher and ended up with an invention that would make an everyday marvel of electric lighting. Examining the social and scientific contexts in which Volta operated--as well as Europe's reception of his most famous invention--Volta also offers a sustained inquiry into long-term features of science and technology as they developed in the early age of electricity. Pancaldi considers the voltaic cell, or battery, as a case study of Enlightenment notions and their consequences, consequences that would include the emergence of the "scientist" at the expense of the "natural philosopher." Throughout, Pancaldi highlights the complex intellectual, technological, and social ferment that ultimately led to our industrial societies. In so doing, he suggests that today's supporters and critics of Enlightenment values underestimate the diversity and contingency inherent in science and technology--and may be at odds needlessly. Both an absorbing biography and a study of scientific and technological creativity, this book offers new insights into the legacies of the Enlightenment while telling the remarkable story of the now-ubiquitous battery.
Reinventing Eden
Author: Carolyn MerchantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136161244
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Perspectives on Garden Histories
Author: Michel ConanPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022657
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Comprising ten papers which critically examine the field of garden history, presented at the twenty-first Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good
American Doctoral Dissertations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Landscape Journal
Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection: Italian and Spanish books, fifteenth through nineteenth centuries
Author: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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MEFRIM
Author: New Examination Statutes
Author: University of OxfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1518
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