Download or read book A Discovery Of A New World Or A Discourse Tending to Prove that tis Probable There May be Another Habitable World in the Moon written by John Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Discovery of a New World Or a Discourse Tending to Prove That tis Probable There May be Another Habitable World in the Moon With a Discourse Concerning the Probability of a Passage Thither Unto which is Added a Discourse Concerning a New Planet Tending to Prove That tis Probable Our Earth is One of the Planets Fourth Edition Etc written by John WILKINS (Bishop of Chester.) and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Discovery of a World in the Moone written by John Wilkins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Discovery of a World in the Moone by John Wilkins
Download or read book The Closed World written by Paul N. Edwards and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Closed World offers a radically new alternative to the canonical histories of computers and cognitive science. Arguing that we can make sense of computers as tools only when we simultaneously grasp their roles as metaphors and political icons, Paul Edwards shows how Cold War social and cultural contexts shaped emerging computer technology--and were transformed, in turn, by information machines. The Closed World explores three apparently disparate histories--the history of American global power, the history of computing machines, and the history of subjectivity in science and culture--through the lens of the American political imagination. In the process, it reveals intimate links between the military projects of the Cold War, the evolution of digital computers, and the origins of cybernetics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence. Edwards begins by describing the emergence of a "closed-world discourse" of global surveillance and control through high-technology military power. The Cold War political goal of "containment" led to the SAGE continental air defense system, Rand Corporation studies of nuclear strategy, and the advanced technologies of the Vietnam War. These and other centralized, computerized military command and control projects--for containing world-scale conflicts--helped closed-world discourse dominate Cold War political decisions. Their apotheosis was the Reagan-era plan for a " Star Wars" space-based ballistic missile defense. Edwards then shows how these military projects helped computers become axial metaphors in psychological theory. Analyzing the Macy Conferences on cybernetics, the Harvard Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory, and the early history of artificial intelligence, he describes the formation of a "cyborg discourse." By constructing both human minds and artificial intelligences as information machines, cyborg discourse assisted in integrating people into the hyper-complex technological systems of the closed world. Finally, Edwards explores the cyborg as political identity in science fiction--from the disembodied, panoptic AI of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to the mechanical robots of Star Wars and the engineered biological androids of Blade Runner--where Information Age culture and subjectivity were both reflected and constructed. Inside Technology series
Download or read book RACE DISCOURSE ORIGIN AMER written by Vera Lawrence Hyatt and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1995-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays approach new world culture from the vantages of history, literature, science, and religion. Several pieces track the emergence of European world view at the time of discovery. Others retrieve the non-European - African and Native Americanrecord of exploration, encounter, and civilization in the New World.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literature and Science 1660 1834 Part II vol 6 written by Judith Hawley and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Download or read book Sotheran s Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Voyage to the Moon written by Cyrano de Bergerac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World written by Adrian Blackledge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discourse and Power in a Multilingual World the discourse of politicians and policy-makers in Britain links languages other than English, and therefore speakers of these languages, with civil disorder and threats to democracy, citizenship and nationhood. These powerful arguments travel along 'chains of discourse' until they gain the legitimacy of the state, and are inscribed in law. The particular focus of this volume is on discourse linking 'race riots' in England in 2001 with the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, which extended legislation to test the English language proficiency of British citizenship applicants. Adrian Blackledge develops a theoretical and methodological framework which draws on critical discourse analysis to reveal the linguistic character of social and cultural processes and structures; on Bakhtin's notion of the dialogic nature of discourse to demonstrate how voices progressively gain authority; and on Bourdieu's model of symbolic domination to illuminate the way in which linguistic-minority speakers may be complicit in the misrecognition, or valorisation, of the dominant language.
Download or read book The Big Splat or How Our Moon Came to Be written by Dana Mackenzie and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon? Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.
Download or read book Representing the New World written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas.
Download or read book The Discourse of Modernism written by Timothy J. Reiss and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The Discourse of Modernism".
Download or read book A New World for a New Nation written by Francisco J. Borge and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1580s, almost a century after Christopher Columbus first set foot in the New World, England could not make any substantial claim to the rich territories there. Less than a century later, England had not only founded an overseas empire but had also managed to challenge her most powerful rivals in the international arena. But before any material success accompanied English New World enterprises, a major campaign of promotion was launched with the clear objective of persuading Englishmen that intervention in the Americas was not only desirable for the national economy but even paramount for their survival as a new and powerful Protestant nation-state. In this book the author explores the metaphors that dominate England's discourse on the New World in her attempt to conceptualize it and make it ready for immediate consumption. The creators of England's proto-colonial discourse were forced to make use of their rivals' prior experience at the same time they tried to present England as radically different, thus conferring legitimacy to English claims over territories that were already occupied. One of the most outstanding consequences of this ideological contest is the emergence of an English national self not only in opposition to the American natives they try to colonise, but also, and more importantly, in contrast to other nations that had been traditionally considered culturally similar.
Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
