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Book Comoediae

    Book Details:
  • Author : Terence
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Comoediae written by Terence and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Song of Italy

Download or read book A Song of Italy written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Western Astrolabes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum
  • Publisher : Adler Planetarium, Astronomy
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Western Astrolabes written by Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum and published by Adler Planetarium, Astronomy. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum in Chicago is home to one of the world's great collections of astrolabes. Roderick and Marjorie Webster, Adler Curators Emeriti, present the Western astrolabes from the Adler's collection. The earliest of these instruments dates from the 13th century, others are from the workshops of the greatest craftsmen of the Renaissance. All are described here and illustrated lavishly with photographs showing the front, the back and additional details such as the maker's signature. Introductory essays by the Websters and Sara Schechner Genuth explain the use of the astrolabe and its role in cultural and social history, while the appendices and bibliography provide information essential to the specialist.

Book Between Demonstration and Imagination

Download or read book Between Demonstration and Imagination written by John David North and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume reflect the wide-ranging interests of John D. North, distinguished historian of science and philosophy. They take up various themes to which he has made important contributions: the development of scientific knowledge and methodology, the style of scientific and philosophical thought, and the uses of scientific knowledge in the making of instruments or the casting of horoscopes. These essays will be of much interest to all historians of science and philosophy.

Book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet     tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759  Tomo primo   sesto

Download or read book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759 Tomo primo sesto written by and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet     tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759  Tomo primo   sesto

Download or read book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759 Tomo primo sesto written by and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet     tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759  Tomo primo   sesto

Download or read book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759 Tomo primo sesto written by and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome

Download or read book Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome written by M. J. T. Lewis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of ancient surveying instruments together with translations of all the ancient sources.

Book Stars  Mind   Fate

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. D. North
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 1989-07-01
  • ISBN : 0826424945
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Stars Mind Fate written by J. D. North and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and angelic hierarchies from the planetary spheres, theology from the theory of the continuum, celestial laws from terrestrial, or the work of the clockmaker from the work of God himself, namely the universe. Surveying the work of such controversial scholars as Alexander Thom and Immanuel Velikovsky this varied volume brings together current scholarship on cosmology, and as the title suggest considers the confluence of matters of the stars, fate and the mind. The collection is accompanied by further commentary from the author and new illustrations.

Book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet     tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759  Tomo primo   sesto

Download or read book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759 Tomo primo sesto written by and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet     tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759  Tomo primo   sesto

Download or read book Lezioni di fisica esperimentale dell abate Nollet tradotte dalla lingua francese sopra l edizione di Parigi dell anno 1759 Tomo primo sesto written by and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ciphers of the Monks

Download or read book The Ciphers of the Monks written by David A. King and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of an ingenious number-notation from the Middle Ages that was devised by monks and mainly used in monasteries. A simple notation for representing any number up to 99 by a single cipher, somehow related to an ancient Greek shorthand, first appeared in early-13th-century England, brought from Athens by an English monk. A second, more useful version, due to Cistercian monks, is first attested in the late 13th century in what is today the border country between Belgium and France: with this any number up to 9999 can be represented by a single cipher. The ciphers were used in scriptoria - for the foliation of manuscripts, for writing year-numbers, preparing indexes and concordances, numbering sermons and the like, and outside the scriptoria - for marking the scales on an astronomical instrument, writing year-numbers in astronomical tables, and for incising volumes on wine-barrels. Related notations were used in medieval and Renaissance shorthands and coded scripts. This richly-illustrated book surveys the medieval manuscripts and Renaissance books in which the ciphers occur, and takes a close look at an intriguing astrolabe from 14th-century Picardy marked with ciphers. With Indices. "Mit Kings luzider Beschreibung und Bewertung der einzelnen Funde und ihrer Beziehungen wird zugleich die Forschungsgeschichte - die bis dato durch Widerspruechlichkeit und Diskontinuit�t gepr�gt ist - umfassend aufgearbeitet." Zeitschrift fuer Germanistik.

Book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy

Download or read book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy written by Robert R. Newton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.

Book The History of Ptolemy   s Star Catalogue

Download or read book The History of Ptolemy s Star Catalogue written by Gerd Graßhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest shares with Euclid's Elements the glory of being the scientific text longest in use. From its conception in the second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. During this time the Almagest was not only a work on astronomy; the subject was defined as what is described in the Almagest. The cautious emancipation of the late middle ages and the revolutionary creation of the new science in the 16th century are not conceivable without reference to the Almagest. This text lifted European astronomy to the high standard of knowledge on which the new science flourished. Before, the Ptolemaic models of the orbits of the sun, the moon, and the planets had been refined by Arabic astronomers. They provided the structural elements with which Copernicus and Kepler ushered in the era of modern astronomy. The Almagest survived the destruction of its epicyclic representation of the planetary orbits in the conceptual traces left behind in the theories of its successors. The clear separation of the sidereal from the tropical year, the celestial coordinate systems, the concepts of time, the forms of the constellations, and brightness classifications of celestial objects are, among many other things, still part of the astronomical canon even today.