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Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Bizarre; Notes and Queries; a Monthly Magazine of History, Folk-lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc
Author: Miscellaneous Literary, Scientific, and Historical Notes, Queries, and Answers, for Teachers, Pupils, Practical and Professional Men
Author: The Western Antiquary
Author: William Henry Kearley WrightPublisher:
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Undying Soul And Other Writings of Alexander Wilder
Author: Alexander WilderPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365645231
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Thirty-eight articles by Alexander Wilder (1823-1908), Introduction, Addendum and Index. Wilder was a Platonist scholar, Physician, historian, translator, editor and prolific writer. He had hundreds of articles in publications of his time on Platonic, medical, philosophic and hermetic subjects, was editor of H.P. Blavatsky's "Isis Unveiled" and author of much of the Introductory chapter. Blavatsky held that only Wilder and Thomas Taylor had a deep intuition on Platonic subjects.
The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book
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Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The mathematical visitor
Author: Artemas MartinThe Medical Imagination
Author: Sari AltschulerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812249860
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Medical Imagination traces the practice of using imagination and literature to craft, test, and implement theories of health in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. This history of imaginative experimentation provides a usable past for conversations about the role of the humanities in health research and practice today.
New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art
Author: Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice
Author: Arie WallertPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363223
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author: Julian JaynesPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547527543
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry