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Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius

Download or read book The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius written by Dániel Margócsy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Third Neu-Whitrow Prize (2021) granted by the Commission on Bibliography and Documentation of IUHPS-DHST Additional background information This book provides bibliographic information, ownership records, a detailed worldwide census and a description of the handwritten annotations for all the surviving copies of the 1543 and 1555 editions of Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica. It also offers a groundbreaking historical analysis of how the Fabrica traveled across the globe, and how readers studied, annotated and critiqued its contents from 1543 to 2017. The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius sheds a fresh light on the book’s vibrant reception history and documents how physicians, artists, theologians and collectors filled its pages with copious annotations. It also offers a novel interpretation of how an early anatomical textbook became one of the most coveted rare books for collectors in the 21st century.

Book Climatic Variability in Sixteenth Century Europe and Its Social Dimension

Download or read book Climatic Variability in Sixteenth Century Europe and Its Social Dimension written by Christian Pfister and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies. Seasonal temperature and precipitation are estimated from this data and monthly mean surface pressure patterns in the European area are reconstructed for outstanding anomalies. Results are compared to fluctuations of Alpine glaciers and to changes in the frequency of severe floods and coastal storms. Moreover, the impact of climate change on grain prices and wine production is assessed. Finally, it is convincingly argued that witches at that time were burnt as scapegoats for climatic change.

Book J C  Poggendorffs biographisch literarisches Handw  rterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften

Download or read book J C Poggendorffs biographisch literarisches Handw rterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften written by Johann Christian Poggendorff and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Encyclopedia

Download or read book The Jewish Encyclopedia written by Isidore Singer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.

Book Taking Possession of Astronomy

Download or read book Taking Possession of Astronomy written by Inga Elmqvist Söderlund and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Choosing a Map Projection

Download or read book Choosing a Map Projection written by Miljenko Lapaine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today. It also discusses the distortions that are immanent in any map projection. A well-chosen map projection is one in which extreme distortions are smaller than those in any other projection used to map the same area and in which the map properties match its purpose. Written by leading experts in the field, including W. Tobler, F.C. Kessler, S.E. Battersby, M.P. Finn, K.C. Clarke, V.S. Tikunov, H. Hargitai, B. Jenny and N. Frančula. This book is designed for use by laymen. The book editors are M. Lapaine and E.L. Usery, Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively, of the ICA Commission on Map Projections for the period 2011-2015.

Book Short title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German speaking Countries and German Books Printed in Other Countries from 1455 to 1600 Now in the British Museum

Download or read book Short title Catalogue of Books Printed in the German speaking Countries and German Books Printed in Other Countries from 1455 to 1600 Now in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by London : Trustees of the British Museum. This book was released on 1962 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hope and Heresy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leigh T.I. Penman
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2019-06-12
  • ISBN : 940241701X
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Hope and Heresy written by Leigh T.I. Penman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth before the Last Judgement—within Lutheran confessional culture between approximately 1570 and 1630. Among Lutherans expectations of a future felicity were often considered manifestations of a heresy called chiliasm, because they contravened the pessimistic apocalyptic outlook at the core of confessional identity. However, during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, individuals raised within Lutheran confessional culture—mathematicians, metallurgists, historians, astronomers, politicians, and even theologians—began to entertain and publicise hopes of a future earthly felicity. Their hopes were countered by accusations of heresy. The ensuing contestation of acceptable doctrine became a flashpoint for debate about the boundaries of confessional identity itself. Based on a thorough study of largely neglected or overlooked print and manuscript sources, the present study examines these debates within their intellectual, social, cultural, and theological contexts. It outlines, for the first time, a heretofore overlooked debate about the limits and possibilities of eschatological thought in early modernity, and provides readers with a unique look at a formative time in the apocalyptic imagination of European culture.

Book A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet

Download or read book A Revolutionary Artist of Tibet written by David Paul Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A catalog to accompany the first museum exhibition devoted to the Indian influences in Francesco Clemente's work and relation to the artistic practices and traditions of various regions in India. Features approximately 20 works, including paintings from the last 30 years and four new sculptures created especially for the exhibition. In contrast to leading conceptual art practices of the 1970s, Clemente refocused attention on representation, narrative, and the figure, and explored traditional, artisanal materials, and modes of working. Since his first trip to India in the 1970s, Francesco Clemente immersed himself in the country's rich cultures as well as the everyday life and artistic practices of local people. Transforming ancient symbols, myths, and ideas, he has created a personal visual language of dreamlike landscapes, animals, and human figures drawn from recollections of his travels. Themes of sexuality, mythology, and spirituality, along with imaginary narratives of violence, intrigue, fragmentation, love, separation, and jealousy are seen throughout his oeuvre.---

Book Stamping Through Astronomy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renato Dicati
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2013-06-18
  • ISBN : 8847028299
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Stamping Through Astronomy written by Renato Dicati and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stamps and other postal documents are an attractive vehicle for presenting astronomy and its development. Written with expertise and great enthusiasm, this unique book offers a historical and philatelic survey of astronomy and some related topics on space exploration. It contains more than 1300 color reproductions of stamps relating to the history of astronomy, ranging from the earliest observations of the sky to modern research conducted with satellites and space probes. Featured are the astronomers and astrophysicists who contributed to this marvelous story – not only Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Herschel, and Einstein but also hundreds of other minor protagonists who played an important role in the development of this, the most ancient yet the most modern of all the sciences. The book also examines in depth the diverse areas which have contributed to the history of astronomy, including the instrumentation, the theories, and the observations. Many stamps illustrate the beauty and the mystery of celestial objects: galaxies, nebulae, stars, planets, satellites, comets, and minor celestial bodies.

Book Report of the Librarian of Congress

Download or read book Report of the Librarian of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The circling year

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  • Author : Circling year
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1872
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The circling year written by Circling year and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Two Renaissance Astronomers

Download or read book Two Renaissance Astronomers written by Jiff Alter and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Local Workshops   Foreign Connections

Download or read book Local Workshops Foreign Connections written by Emese Sarkadi Nagy and published by Bohlau Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flugelaltare sind komplexe Spiegel des geistigen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Lebens eines Landes. Der umfangreiche Band bietet eingehende kunstgeschichtliche und historische Analysen verschiedener Gruppen von Flugelretabeln Siebenburgens, vor allem der von Sachsen bewohnten Landstriche. Ein vollstandiger Katalog der erhaltenen siebenburgischen Flugelaltare und zahlreiche Farbabbildungen dokumentieren dieses wichtige Kapitel der europaischen Kunstgeschichte und machen das Buch zu einem unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk.