Download or read book Histoire de L Academie Royale Des Inscriptions Et Belles Lettres V2 1740 written by Paul Tallemant and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Histoires de la Terre written by Louise Lyle and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, etc.) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon's seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important French philosophers, novelists, political theorists, historians and popularizers of science of the time. This book charts the original and influential ways in which French writers and thinkers, such as Buffon, d'Holbach, Balzac, Sand, Verne, Gide and Malraux, exploited the earth sciences for very different ends. This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of French literature in the modern period, cultural historians of modern France, scholars of European studies, of French political history, of the History of Ideas or the History of Science as well as researchers in landscape and physical geography.
Download or read book Histoire de L Imprimerie Royale Du Louvre written by Auguste Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warfare and the Age of Printing 4 vols written by Louis Sloos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft
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Download or read book History and Its Images written by Francis Haskell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
Download or read book A catalogue of the library of the Athen um With Suppl 1 2 and additions to the library 1859 93 95 written by Athenaeum club libr and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Information Master written by Jacob Soll and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager." ---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge "Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning attention to detail Colbert used knowledge in the service of enhancing royal power. Jacob Soll's scholarship is impeccable and his story long overdue and compelling." ---Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles "Nowadays we all know that information is the key to power, and that the masters of information rule the world. Jacob Soll teaches us that Jean-Baptiste Colbert had grasped this principle three and a half centuries ago, and used it to construct a new kind of state. This imaginative, erudite, and powerfully written book re-creates the history of libraries and archives in early modern Europe, and ties them in a novel and convincing way to the new statecraft of Europe's absolute monarchs." ---Anthony Grafton, Princeton University "Brilliantly researched, superbly told, and timely, Soll's story is crucial for the history of the modern state." ---Keith Baker, Stanford University When Louis XIV asked his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert---the man who was to oversee the building of Versailles and the Royal Academy of Sciences, as well as the navy, the Paris police force, and French industry---to build a large-scale administrative government, Colbert created an unprecedented information system for political power. In The Information Master, Jacob Soll shows how the legacy of Colbert's encyclopedic tradition lies at the very center of the rise of the modern state and was a precursor to industrial intelligence and Internet search engines. Soll's innovative look at Colbert's rise to power argues that his practice of collecting knowledge originated from techniques of church scholarship and from Renaissance Italy, where merchants recognized the power to be gained from merging scholarship, finance, and library science. With his connection of interdisciplinary approaches---regarding accounting, state administration, archives, libraries, merchant techniques, ecclesiastical culture, policing, and humanist pedagogy---Soll has written an innovative book that will redefine not only the history of the reign of Louis XIV and information science but also the study of political and economic history. Jacket illustration: Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683), Philippe de Champaigne, 1655, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Wildenstein Foundation, Inc., 1951 (51.34). Photograph © 2003 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Download or read book Bibliotheca Pinelliana A Catalogue of the Magnificent and Celebrated Library of Maffei Pinelli Late of Venice Comprehending an Unparalleled Collection of the Greek Roman and Italian Authors from the Origin of Printing a Considerable Number of Curious Greek and Latin Manuscripts of the 11 12 13 14 15 and 16 Centuries on Monday March 2 1789 and the Twenty two Following Days Sunday Excepted at the Great Room Opposite the Chapel in Conduit Street Hanover Square London Catalogues to be Had of Mess Robson and Clarke Booksellers New Bond Street Mr Edwards Booksellers Pall Mall and of the Principal Booksellers Throughout Europe written by Maffeo Pinelli and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography pt 3 A notice of the principal works extant on literary history in general and on bibliography in particular incl catalogues of the principal British private libraries and foreign private libraries Appendix Books of images Works printed on paper of different colours Principal vignettes or marks used by the antient printers Monograms and devices of antient printers Unique and illustrated copies Works in the macaronic style Notices of some of the most eminent printers of the 15th 16th 17th and 18th centuries and of the principal editions executed by them Codex Ebnerianus Collections of large works written by Thomas Hartwell Horne and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Bibliography written by Thomas Hartwell Horne and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touched by the Graces written by Buford Norman and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After situating the libretti in the context of French classicism, the author first discusses the prologues to the Quinault-Lully operas, then devotes a chapter to each of the libretti in which he examines such traditional literary elements as performance history, plot, characterization, and style, as well as issues more specifically related to musical theater. The concluding chapter summarizes what opera can tell us about French classicism and explores in depth some of the key theoretical issues such as representation, imitation, and recognition.
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Arranged in Classes written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of Books Arranged in Classes Comprising All Departments of Literature Many of Them Rare Valuable and Curious Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Herodotea written by N. G. Wilson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is often thought that Herodotus is a simple author, and that his Histories do not contain many passages requiring textual criticism, closer investigation reveals this view to be inaccurate. Written to accompany and augment the new Oxford Classical Texts edition of the Histories - which has been substantially revised by Nigel Wilson from the original edition by Danish scholar C. Hude in 1906 - this volume attempts to take account of discussion of numerous passages where there is reason to question whether the text as transmitted in ancient or medieval manuscripts is exactly what the author intended. A wide range of conjectures is represented, and work by scholars whose contributions have been neglected or insufficiently appreciated, in particular J. V. Pingel, H. Richards, and J. E. Powell, is taken into account.
