Author: Thomas Horsfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Part I. II. Of A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Lepidopterous Insects Contained In The Museum of the Honourable East-India Company
History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870-1871
Author: Thomas Wiltberger Evans
Publisher:
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Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870-71
Author: Thomas Wiltberger Evans
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Category : Ambulances
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ambulances
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-century England
Author: Tony Hunt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913393
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses provide the key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. Teaching and Learning Latin is destined to become an essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913393
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Here at last is the first systematic study of the teaching and learning of Latin in thirteenth century England based on evidence from nearly 200 manuscripts where the text has been glossed in the vernacular. These glosses provide the key to discovering the linguistic competence and interest of students at an elementary level: men and women who needed a working knowledge of Latin for practical purposes. The received view that Latin was the exclusive language of the schoolroom is shown to be mistaken and the exhaustive recording of the vernacular glosses provides a hitherto untapped source of lexical materials in French and Middle English. Teaching and Learning Latin is destined to become an essential source-book for medievalists interested in language, literacy and culture.
Museum Humfredianum
Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c. Intended to Supersede the Use of Other Books of Reference
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The new encyclopædia; or, Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences
Author: Encyclopaedia Perthensis
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, Lately the Property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, Deceased: which Will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786, ... at Her Late Dwelling-house, in Privy-Garden, Whitehall; ...
Author: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Dazzled and Deceived
Author: Peter Forbes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178964
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious - but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature's ploys? "Dazzled and Deceived" tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes' cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178964
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world - including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes - have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or their surroundings, nature's fakers use mimicry to protect themselves, to attract and repel, to bluff and warn, to forage and to hide. The advantages of mimicry are obvious - but how does 'blind' nature do it? And how has humanity learnt to profit from nature's ploys? "Dazzled and Deceived" tells the unique and fascinating story of mimicry and camouflage in science, art, warfare and the natural world. Discovered in the 1850s by the young English naturalists Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazonian rainforest, the phenomenon of mimicry was seized upon as the first independent validation of Darwin's theory of natural selection. But mimicry and camouflage also created a huge impact outside the laboratory walls. Peter Forbes' cultural history links mimicry and camouflage to art, literature, military tactics and medical cures across the twentieth century, and charts its intricate involvement with the dispute between evolution and creationism.