Author: Henry PinnellPublisher:
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Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Philosophy Reformed & Improved in Four Profound Tractates
Author: Henry PinnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Scientific Studies
Author: Henry DirksPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752338237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Reproduction of the original: Scientific Studies by Henry Dirks
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Author: The Look of Van Dyck
Author: John PeacockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351542869
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Based on a close study of Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower, this book examines the picture's context in the symbolic discourses of the period and in the artist's oeuvre. The portrait is interpreted as a programmatic statement, made in the ambience of the Caroline court after Van Dyck's appointment as 'Principal Painter', of his view of the art of painting. This statement, formulated in appropriately visual terms, characterizes painting as a way of looking and seeing, a mode of vision. In making such a claim, the artist steps aside from the familiar debate about whether painting was a manual or an intellectual discipline, and moves beyond any idea of it as simply a means of representing the external world: the painter's definitive faculty of vision can reach further than those realities which present themselves to the eye. John Peacock analyses the motif of looking - the ways in which figures regard or disregard each other - throughout Van Dyck's work, and the images of the sunflower and the gold chain in this particular portrait, to reveal what is essentially an idealist conception of pictorial art. He contradicts previous opinions that the artist was pedestrian in his thinking, by showing him to be familiar with a range of ideas current in contemporary Europe about painting and the role of the painter.
From Physico-Theology to Bio-Technology
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004418571
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
For the last half century, Mikuláš Teich has made many eminent contributions to the histories of science, technology, medicine and society. His essentially Marxist historiographical stance has resisted the notion that science is an autonomous entity, and has instead stressed the interplay of the economic, the social and the scientific forces in history. At the same time, particularly in studies of biochemistry, he has emphasized the significance of the role of science and technology in modern economic change. In a career divided between Czechoslovakia and the UK, he has always been highly internationalist in his historical outlooks, combining what is valuable in Contentinal and British methods. This volume is to honour him on his eightieth birthday. Examining European developments since the sixteenth century, the essays, many by old friends and colleagues, cluster around themes close to his own personal scholarship and related to volumes which he has edited. The book is divided into sections on Questions of History; Scientific Lives; Disciplines; Natural History, and Science and Disease.
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Paracelsus: The Man and his Reputation, his Ideas and their Transformation
Author: Ole P. GrellPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004476792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Despite his fame Paracelsus remains an illusive character. As this volume points out it is somewhat of a paradox that the fascination with Paracelsus and his ideas has remained so widespread when it is born in mind that it is far from clear what exactly he contributed to medicine and natural philosophy. But perhaps it is exactly this enigma which through the ages has made Paracelsus so attractive to such a variety of people who all want to claim him as an advocate for their particular ideas. The first section of this book deals with the historiography surrounding Paracelsus and Paracelsianism and points to the need of reclaiming the man and his ideas in their proper historical context. A further two sections are concerned with the different religious, social and political implications of Paracelsianism and its medical and natural philosophical significance respectively.
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Author: Henry Sotheran LtdThe Petrine Instauration
Author: Robert CollisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004224394
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.