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Book The Circulator of Useful Knowledge Amusement Literature Science and General Information

Download or read book The Circulator of Useful Knowledge Amusement Literature Science and General Information written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...that the best side's all gone," said Mr. Blewett, with a whine of pretended regret, which had a prospective reference to the brokerage on the indigo. "That I beg leave to deny," retorted Harry, " for it is one of the Peptic precepts, that in politics and gastronomy, the best side is that where there is most to be got, and there are still a few slices left under the bone."--" If we had a good stimulating sauce now," said the alderman, "I could still go on."--" But there," continued the nephew, "we are still nearly as deficient as we were in the time of Louis Quatorze, whose ambassador at London complained that he had been sent among a set of barbarians, who had twenty religions and only three fishsauces."--" Why, Billy," cried the alderman to Blewett, "you seem as down in the mouth as the root of my tongue;--blue as your own indigo."--" That's a famous lot of Guatimola you have just received, sir Peter, by the Two Sisters, capt. Framlingham: may-1 call to take samples'"--"We'll talk of that by and by, Billy: meantime take a sample of port; help yourself."--" He can't help himself, poor fellow," said Harry, . " for the bottle's empty." The baronet nodded to Rule, who instantly betook himself to a basket in the corner of the room, and began decanting another with mathematical precision. "Take care, Rule, it won't bear shaking; I have had it fourteen years in bottle."--" And port wine," observed Harry," is like mankind--the older it gets, the more crusty it becomes, and the less will it bear being disturbed."--"A little tawny," said the uncle, smacking his lips; "I doubt...

Book Sound Authorities

    Sound Authorities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward J. Gillin
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2022-02-11
  • ISBN : 022680917X
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Sound Authorities written by Edward J. Gillin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain. In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to the study of sound and music. During this time, scientific practitioners attempted to fashion themselves as authorities on sonorous phenomena, coming into conflict with traditional musical elites as well as religious bodies. Gillin pays attention to sound in both musical and nonmusical contexts, specifically the cacophony of British industrialization. Sound Authorities begins with the place of acoustics in early nineteenth-century London, examining scientific exhibitions, lectures, spectacles, workshops, laboratories, and showrooms. He goes on to explore how mathematicians mobilized sound in their understanding of natural laws and their vision of a harmonious ordered universe. In closing, Gillin delves into the era’s religious and metaphysical debates over the place of music (and humanity) in nature, the relationship between music and the divine, and the tensions between spiritualist understandings of sound and scientific ones.

Book Science and Sound in Nineteenth Century Britain

Download or read book Science and Sound in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Edward J. Gillin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as valuable an organ as the eye for examining nature. Experiments on how sound behaved informed new understandings of how a diverse array of natural phenomena operated, notably those of heat, light, and electro-magnetism. In nineteenth-century Britain, sound was not just a phenomenon to be studied, but central to the practice of science itself and broader understandings over nature and the universe. This collection, accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Science.

Book Illusions in Motion

Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.

Book Britain s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

Download or read book Britain s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery written by Katie Donington and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together local case studies of Britain’s history and memory of transatlantic slavery and abolition, including the role of individuals and families, regional identity narratives, sites of memory and forgetting, and the financial, architectural and social legacies of slave-ownership.

Book I am a Government Man to Mr Scott of Glendon

Download or read book I am a Government Man to Mr Scott of Glendon written by David Cragg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the judgement of death, for horse theft in Wales, hanging over his head Hugh Hughes is mercifully transported to New South Wales in 1830 for 14 years. His journey to freedom in the Hunter Valley on the Glendon Estate places him in the midst of a tumultuous time in colonial history. Influential squatters, such as the Scott family, wrestle for power and land against indigenous tribes, the scourge of bushrangers and the attempts by the Governor of New South Wales to establish authority and discipline on the colony's boundaries. Hugh Hughes struggles with his own temptations and the lash is not far from his back. Crossing paths with murderous escaped convicts and the infamous Hall family, death and misfortune continue to stalk him.As a ticket of leave holder and well known horse breeder, he meets the indefatigable Frances Fox, an orphaned immigrant girl who made her way to Sydney in the hope of claiming a better life than famine struck Ireland could offer. Together they scratch out an existence and raise a family.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office Subjects

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Patent Office Subjects written by Great Britain. Patent Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shreds Patches

    Shreds Patches

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1825
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 628 pages

Download or read book Shreds Patches written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tercentenary Handlist of English Welsh Newspapers Magazines Reviews

Download or read book Tercentenary Handlist of English Welsh Newspapers Magazines Reviews written by Roland Austin and published by London : Dawsons of Pall Mall. This book was released on 1920 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: