Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Astronomy Designed for the Use of the Public Or Common Schools in the United States written by Asa Smith and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Starry Sky Within written by Anna Henchman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing unexplored connections between nineteenth-century astronomy and literature, The Starry Sky Within offers a new understanding of literary point of view as essentially multiple, mobile, and comparative. Nineteenth-century astronomy revealed a cosmos of celestial systems in constant motion. Stars, comets, planets, and moons coursed through space in complex and changing relation. As the skies were in motion, so too was the human subject. Astronomers showed that human beings never perceive the world from a stable position. The mobility of our bodies in space and the very structure of stereoscopic vision mean that point of view is neither singular nor stable. We always see the world as an amalgam of fractured perspectives. In this innovative study, Henchman shows that the reconceptualization of the skies gave poets and novelists new spaces in which to indulge their longing to escape the limitations of individual perspective. She links astronomy and optics to the form of the multiplot novel, with its many centers of consciousness, complex systems of relation, and criss-crossing points of view. Accounts of a world and a subject both in relative motion shaped the form of grand-scale narratives such as Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Bleak House, and Daniel Deronda. De Quincey, Tennyson, and Eliot befriended leading astronomers and visited observatories, while Hardy learned about astronomy from the vast popular literature of the day. These writers use cosmic distances to dislodge their readers from the earth, setting human perception against views from high above and then telescoping back to earth again. What results is a new perception of the mobility of point of view in both literature and science.

Download or read book History of the United States of America Designed for Schools written by Egbert Guernsey and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Astronomy written by Asa Smith and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Smith s Illustrated Astronomy written by Asa Smith and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Senate Documents Otherwise Publ as Public Documents and Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Star Territory written by Gordon Fraser and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations Expenditures and Conditions of the Institution for the Year written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Star Maps written by Nick Kanas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the publication of the first edition of 'Star Maps,' books were either general histories of astronomy using examples of antiquarian celestial maps as illustrations, or catalogs of celestial atlases that failed to trace the flow of sky map development over time. The second edition focuses on the development of contemporary views of the heavens and advances in map-making. It captures the beauty and awe of the heavens through images from antiquarian celestial prints and star atlases. This book uniquely combines a number of features: 1) the history of celestial cartography is traced from ancient to modern times; 2) this development is integrated with contemporary cosmological systems; 3) the artistry of sky maps is shown using beautiful color images from actual celestial atlases and prints; 4) each illustration is accompanied by a legend explaining what is being shown; and 5) the text is written for the lay reader based on the author's experience with writing articles for amateur astronomy and map collector magazines. This updated second edition of 'Star Maps' contains over 50 new pages of text and 44 new images (16 in color), including completely new sections on celestial frontispieces, deep-sky objects, playing card maps, additional cartographers, and modern computerized star maps. There is also expanded material about celestial globes, volvelles, telescopes, and planets and asteroids.

Download or read book The Criterion written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The R I Schoolmaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book North American Second Class Reader written by David Bates Tower and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Norton s Literary Gazette and Publishers Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book District School Journal of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: