Author: Jeremiah JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Scientific Dialogues
Author: Jeremiah JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Scientific dialogues ... New edition, complete in one volume, with 185 wood cuts
Author: Jeremiah JOYCEScientific Dialogues
Author: Jeremiah JoycePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Scientific Dialogues ... A new edition, corrected and improved
Author: Jeremiah JOYCEEarly lessons
Author: Maria EdgeworthJuvenile Correspondence, Or, Letters, Designed as Examples of the Epistolary Style
Author: Lucy AikinJeremiah Joyce
Author: John IssittPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351155067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Jeremiah Joyce was one of the accused in the famous Treason Trials of 1794 which marked the suppression of radical agitation in Britain for the ensuing twenty years. He was a political radical who imbibed the traditions of the 'commonwealthman' and actively campaigned for a more democratic and representative state. Through the early 1790s he acted as the metropolitan political agent for his patron the Earl of Stanhope and he liased between radical groups whilst also distributing radical literature including Tom Paine's Rights of Man. He was one of the very few artisans at the end of the eighteenth century adopted by the literary and scientific intelligentsia and was unique in training to become a Unitarian minister at the age of 23 after serving a seven-year trade apprenticeship and having worked as a journeyman. This work traces the legacies, traditions and visions of the English Enlightenment as they are expressed through Joyce's life and literary production. It explores the evolution of these traditions against the threatening background of the French revolution and the developing imperatives for education in general, and science education in particular. By tracing the linkages between political, educational, scientific and publishing cultures, it reflects on the issues of late eighteenth century patronage, the literary forms of popular science and the evolution of the metropolitan book trade. In so doing the book recovers the life of a hitherto much neglected science writer and political activist and contributes to the histories of politics, education, science and the developing discipline of book history.
Useful Knowledge: A Familiar Account of the Various Productions of Nature, Minerals, Vegetables and Animals (Complete)
Author: William BingleyPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465583203
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 717
Book Description
The mode in which instruction has hitherto been conveyed, on the peculiar subjects of the present work, has chiefly been by small books, in question and answer, denominated catechisms. But such, however respectable in themselves, or however advantageous for children, are wholly insufficient for persons who are in search of extended knowledge, and desirous of furnishing their minds with useful information. On these subjects there has not hitherto been published any work in which they are collectively to be found; nor could a knowledge of them be obtained but by the consultation of many and expensive writings. That they are generally important to be known will not probably be denied. It has consequently been the object of the author to compress all the interesting information that could be obtained respecting them, within as narrow a compass, and at the same time to render this information as entertaining, and as devoid of technical words and phrases, as possible. The scheme of the work will, it is hoped, be found sufficiently simple. The passage in smaller characters at the head of each article, is in general so arranged as to reply to the questions, “What is?” “What are?” or “How do you know?” For instance: “What is flint?” The answer will be found thus: “Flint is a peculiarly hard and compact kind of stone, generally of smoke-grey colour, passing into greyish white, reddish, or brown. It is nearly thrice as heavy as water, and, when broken, will split in every direction, into pieces which have a smooth surface.” The author is aware that, in many instances, the definitions are defective: but this has, in general, arisen from a necessity of rendering them short, and at the same time of using such terms as would be likely to convey information to the minds of persons who have had no previous knowledge of the systems of natural history.
The Poetical Works of Hannah More
Author: Hannah MorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Author: Homer