Download or read book Columbus Memorial Volume Classic Reprint written by Catholic Club of New York and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Columbus Memorial Volume But regard the figure of Columbus from another point Of view, and we are struck at once by his many modern traits, and impressed with the close connection between his career and the course of modern science. Convinced of the correctness of his cosmographic views, neither the coldness of patrons nor the opposition of the world shook him in his convictions. Time itself did not dampen his ardor to test by experiment his scientific opinions. Is not this the spirit of the modern investigator? Four times Columbus braved the perils of the sea, and trusted himself to men more treacher ous than the ocean, to prove the correctness of 1115 theories. Can modern science produce more brilliant examples of courage and perseverance? In his methods Columbus, while true to the mediaeval principle of authority, appealed to observation and fact as arguments of decisive importance. If, to support his theories that the extent of ocean between the west of Africa and the Indies was slight as compared with thevastness of the Old continent, he cited Aristotle and Averroes, Esdras and Seneca, and if he founded his scheme largely on the authority of Cardinal Pierre d'ailly, it is also true that, both at Porto Santo and at Lisbon, from his sailor relatives, and the most experienced mariners of the day, he gathered facts, indicating the existence of fertile inhabited lands to the westward. Again and again he dwelt on the fact that carved wood, strange trees, unknown species of reeds, nay, the corpses of two men unlike any race of the Old World, had drifted from the west to the Azores. How could he have anticipated more signally the methods of the modern explorer? How modern, too, was Columbus' manner of deal ing with a phenomenon that might well have struck earlier mariners as an ill-boding prodigy - the continuous variation of the magnetic needle on his first voyage. The Genoese sailor sought an explanation in science and made it the starting point of improved navigation. 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.
Download or read book A Memorial of Christopher Columbus written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Memorial of Christopher Columbus: From the City of Boston in Honor of His Discovery of America The portrait of Columbus which appears as the frontispiece of this volume is a version of a painting in the gallery at Versailles; the facts of its origin and the name of the artist are unknown. It has been as cribed to a pupil of the great master of the Low Countries, Jan van Eyck. 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.
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Download or read book Historic Life Leaves Vol 1 written by Hyland Clare Kirk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historic Life Leaves, Vol. 1: The Secret of Columbus; Quarterly, June, 1912 Various mysteries in the life of Christopher Colum bus have proved so puzzling to his biographers as to have been a source of perennial debate almost from the time of his demise to the present. His age, his birth-place, his lineage and language, his early career, his marital relations, certain of his later deeds, and his actuating motives throughout life, have all been more or less puzzling to the student of history. 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.
Download or read book A History of the Origin of Memorial Day written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Origin of Memorial Day: As Adopted by the Ladies' Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia, and Presented to the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the Confederacy, Under Whose Direction It Is Now Published A History of the Origin of Memorial Day: As Adopted By the Ladies' Memorial Association of Columbus, Georgia, and Presented to the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the Confederacy, Under Whose Direction It Is Now Published was written by an unknown author in 1898. This is a 41 page book, containing 14047 words. Search Inside is enabled for this title. 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.
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Download or read book They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus written by Elizabeth Weil and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic American tale of dreams and obsession--the suspenseful, brilliantly written account of one eccentric man’s hunger to open space travel to us all: to let us rocket into orbit, return to earth, and soar yet again--thus transforming space travel forever. They All Laughed at Christopher Columbus Gary Hudson was seven years old when Sputnik flew, nineteen when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and all he ever wanted to do was to travel into space. Between 1970 and 1996 he founded and disbanded five separate rocket-building companies, none meeting with much success. Then, in 1997, at the age of forty-seven, he launched Rotary Rocket. His goal was to develop and build the Roton, the world’s first manned, single-stage-to-orbit, fully reusable spaceship, capable of shuttling ordinary people into orbit and back in a single day. Elizabeth Weil followed Gary for two years, and in this book she brings to vivid life a seductively--perhaps delusionally--optimistic world where science and science fiction meld and fuse, and where imagination and invention collide. In California’s bleak and windswept Mojave Desert, Gary assembled a fanatical, mismatched crew of engineers and technicians, and Weil bears witness to their Roton endeavor, from first conception to final test flight. The cast includes a pyromaniacal engineer, a world expert on composite airframes, two former Navy test pilots, Gary’s infinitely patient wife, a third-generation Mojave motel owner, and an enigmatic and resourceful financier. At their center shines Gary himself, a man eternally reflecting the glow of a better, lighter, higher world--a world that, despite his flaws and failures, he perpetually convinces us we’re all about to reach.
Download or read book Ryerson Memorial Volume written by J. George Hodgins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ryerson Memorial Volume: Prepared on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Ryerson Statue I have two reasons to give for the part which I have taken in the preparation of the latter part of this Memorial Volume. The first is mentioned in the following paragraph from the brief resume of the historical and personal facts given in the volume, and which I read on the day of the unveiling of the statute, as follows: - "It devolves upon me, as Chairman of the (Ryerson Memorial Statue) Committee, and at the kind request of my colleagues - no less than as the life-long friend and fellow-labourer of him whose deeds and memory we honour to-day - to trace back to their source the origin and underlying principles of our system of education, and to show that these underlying principles and other vital forces were so combined by a master-hand as to form the groundwork, as they have, in their combination, become the charter of our educational system of to-day." The second reason is contained in the following paragraphs - containing a brief record of Dr. Ryerson's thirty-two years in the Public Service, taken from The Story of My Life, page 351. "During my connection with the Education Department - from 1844 to 1876 - I made five educational tours of inspection and enquiry to educating countaies in Europe and the United States. I made an official tour through each county in Upper Canada, once in every five years, to hold a County Convention of municipal councillors, clergy, school trustees, teachers and local superintendents, and thus developed the School system as the result of repeated inquiries in foreign countries, and the freest consultation with my fellow-citizens of all classes, in the several County Conventions, as well as on many other occasions. "During the nearly thirty-two years of my administration of the Education Department, I met with strong opposition at first from individuals - some on personal, others on religious and political grounds; but that opposition was, for most part, partial and evanescent. During these years I had the support of each successive administration of Government, whether of one party or the other, and, at length, the co-operation of all religious persuasions; so that in 1876 I was allowed to retire, with the good-will of all political parties and religious denominations, and without diminution of my public means of susbsitence. "I leave to Dr. J. George Hodgins, my devoted friend of over forty years, and my able colleague for over thirty of these years, the duty of filling up the details of our united labours in founding a system of education for my native Province which is spoken of in terms of strong commendation, not only within, but by people outside of the Dominion." 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."
Download or read book Official Documents Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books written by Edward Wilson-Lee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.
Download or read book The United States Catalog Books in Print January 1 1912 written by Marion Effie Potter and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dial written by Francis Fisher Browne and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ohio State University in the Sixties written by William J. Shkurti and published by Trillium. This book was released on 2016 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed highway patrol officers, Ohio National Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus city police, university and state officials feared they could not maintain order in the face of growing student protests. Students, faculty, and staff were ordered to leave; administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories were closed. The campus was sealed off. Never in the first one hundred years of the university's existence had such a drastic step been necessary. Just a year earlier the campus seemed immune to such disruptions. President Nixon considered it safe enough to plan an address at commencement. Yet a year later the campus erupted into a spasm of violent protest exceeding even that of traditional hot spots like Berkeley and Wisconsin. How could conditions have changed so dramatically in just a few short months? Using contemporary news stories, long overlooked archival materials, and first-person interviews, The Ohio State University in the Sixties explores how these tensions built up over years, why they converged when they did and how they forever changed the university.
Download or read book Poems for the Millennium Volume Three written by Jerome Rothenberg and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previous two volumes of this acclaimed anthology set forth a globally decentered revision of twentieth-century poetry from the perspective of its many avant-gardes. Now editors Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson bring a radically new interpretation to the poetry of the preceding century, viewing the work of the romantic and post-romantic poets as an international, collective, often utopian enterprise that became the foundation of experimental modernism. Global in its range, volume three gathers selections from the poetry and manifestos of canonical poets, as well as the work of lesser-known but equally radical poets. Defining romanticism as experimental and visionary, Rothenberg and Robinson feature prose poetry, verbal-visual experiments, and sound poetry, along with more familiar forms seen here as if for the first time. The anthology also explores romanticism outside the European orbit and includes ethnopoetic and archaeological works outside the literary mainstream. The range of volume three and its skewing of the traditional canon illuminate the process by which romantics and post- romantics challenged nineteenth-century orthodoxies and propelled poetry to the experiments of a later modernism and avant-gardism.
Download or read book Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University Citizen Cuk written by Avery Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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