Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
J.C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften ...: bd. A-L. 1863
Author: Johann Christian PoggendorffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : un
Pages : 808
Book Description
Visualizing the invisible with the human body
Author: J. Cale JohnsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110642689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external characteristics and behaviour. This volume focuses initially on two types of descriptive literature in Mesopotamia: physiognomic omens and what we might call ekphrastic description. These modalities are traced through ancient India, Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the physiognomic features of famous historical figures such as Themistocles, Socrates or Augustus in the Graeco-Roman world, where physiognomic discussions become intertwined with typological analyses of human characters. The Arabic compendial culture absorbed and remade these different physiognomic and ekphrastic traditions, incorporating both Mesopotamian links between physiognomy and medicine and the interest in characterological ‘types’ that had emerged in the Hellenistic period. This volume offer the first wide-ranging picture of these modalities of description in antiquity.
J.C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches Handwhorterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften ...: bd. A-L. 1863
Author: Johann Christian PoggendorffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : un
Pages : 814
Book Description
J. C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches handwörterbuch für mathematik, astronomie, physik mit geophysik, chemie, kristallographie und verwandte wissensgebiete ...: Bd. A-L. 1863
Author: Johann Christian PoggendorffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : un
Pages : 816
Book Description
Courting Disaster
Author: Hilary M CareyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349218006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
J. C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches handwörterbuch für mathematik, astronomie, physik mit geophysik, chemie, kristallographie und verwandte wissensgebiete ...: bd. A-L. 1863
Author: Johann Christian PoggendorffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : un
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Indian System of Human Marks
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004299823
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
In The Indian System of Human Marks, Zysk offers a literary history of the Indian system of knowledge, which details divination by means of the marks on the bodies of both men and women. In addition to a historical analysis, the work includes texts and translations of the earliest treatises in Sanskrit. This is followed by a detailed philological analysis of the texts and annotations to the translations. The history follows the Indian system’s evolution from its roots in ancient Mesopotamian collections of omen on the human body to modern-day practice in Rajasthan in the north and Tamilnadu in the south. A special feature of the book is Zysk’s edition and translation of the earliest textual collection of the system in the Gargīyajyotiṣa from the 1st century CE. The system of human marks is one of the few Indian textual sources that links ancient India with the antique cultures of Mesopotamia and Greece.
Bede
Author: Saint Bede (the Venerable)Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 184631495X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The Venerable Bede composed On the Nature of Things and On Times at the outset of his career in AD 703, shaping a mass of difficult and sometimes dangerous material on the mathematical and physical basis of time into a lucid and well-organized account that laid the framework for much of Carolingian and Scholastic scientific thought. (Barnes and Noble).
Schooling and Society
Author: Alasdair A. MacDonaldPublisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042914100
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The present volume, number VI in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, offers a selection of papers presented at the International Conference 'Knowledge and Learning' held in Groningen in November 2001. It is the second of three volumes. The first (volume V in the series), entitled Learned Antiquity: Scholarship and Society in the Near East, the Greco-Roman World, and the Early Medieval West has been edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald, Michael W. Twomey and Gerrit J. Reinink. The third one (volume VII in the series) bears the title Scholarly Environments: Centres of Learning and Institutional Contexts 1600-1960 and will be edited by Alasdair A. MacDonald and Arend H. Huussen. The present volume, Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, contains new studies on a wide range of matters pertaining to scholarship (and to changes in scholarship, in the European West) from the early Middle Ages throught to the Renaissance and beyond. The disciplines discussed include: literature, philosophy, cultural history, and education.