Author: Patrick KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Oriental Metrology
Author: Patrick KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Modern Metrology
Author: Lowis D'Aguilar JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Length measurement
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia
Author: Evolutionary Theories and Religious Traditions
Author: Bernard LightmanPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822990075
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Before the advent of radio, conceptions of the relationship between science and religion circulated through periodicals, journals, and books, influencing the worldviews of intellectuals and a wider public. In this volume, historians of science and religion examine that relationship through diverse mediums, geographic contexts, and religious traditions. Spanning within and beyond Europe and North America, chapters emphasize underexamined regions—New Zealand, Australia, India, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire—and major religions of the world, including Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Islam; interactions between those traditions; as well as atheism, monism, and agnosticism. As they focus on evolution and human origins, contributors draw attention to European scientists other than Darwin who played a significant role in the dissemination of evolutionary ideas; for some, those ideas provided the key to understanding every aspect of human culture, including religion. They also highlight central figures in national contexts, many of whom were not scientists, who appropriated scientific theories for their own purposes. Taking a local, national, transnational, and global approach to the study of science and religion, this volume begins to capture the complexity of cultural engagement with evolution and religion in the long nineteenth century.
The Supplement to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Etc
Author: Edward BalfourThe Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australia
Author: The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China and Australasia
Author: The Asiatic Journal
Author: Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures
Author: Jan GyllenbokPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3319666916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
This second volume of Gyllenbok's encyclopaedia of historical metrology comprises the first part of the compendium of measurement systems and currencies of all sovereign states of the modern World (A-I). Units of measurement are of vital importance in every civilization through history. Since the early ages, man has through necessity devised various measures to assist him in everyday life. They have enabled and continue to enable us to trade in commonly and equitably understood amounts, and to investigate, understand, and control the chemical, physical, and biological processes of the natural world. The encyclopeadia will be of use not only to historians of science and technology, but also to economic and social historians and should be in every major academic and national library as standard reference work on the topic.
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