Author: Baltimore Peabody inst, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Author: George W. Childs
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265954911
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Excerpt from Public Ledger Almanac, 1876 Pennsylvania, by vote of her assembly, elected her delegates September 15, 1774, with direction merely that they should attend the Congress, and with no instruction as to what they should do. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: C. Albert White
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Coverage of publications outside the UK and in non-English languages expands steadily until, in 1991, it occupies enough of the Guide to require publication in parts.

Author: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
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Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 934

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Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.

Author: George Beckwith
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Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 948

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Author: Aby Warburg
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892365371
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.