Download or read book Dr Woodward s Shield written by Joseph M. Levine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Furthest Goal written by Beatrice Bodart-Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself.
Download or read book The Collector s Voice written by Susan Pearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin
Download or read book The Correspondence of Dr William Hunter Vol 1 written by Helen Brock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Scotland, Dr William Hunter (1718-83) pursued an extensive medical education in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Paris. He settled in London where he made his name as an anatomist and obstetrician before being elected to the Royal Society in 1767. This book presents all of his known correspondence, drawing upon archives around the world.
Download or read book Down from Olympus written by Suzanne L. Marchand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Eliza May Butler's Tyranny of Greece over Germany in 1935, the obsession of the German educated elite with the ancient Greeks has become an accepted, if severely underanalyzed, cliché. In Down from Olympus, Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist, normative aesthetics and an ascetic, scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German "neohumanists" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments, and by so doing, to revitalize education and the arts. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology, Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art was made the basis for new, state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar, she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism. This book discusses intellectual and institutional aspects of archaeology and philhellenism, giving extensive treatment to the history of prehistorical archaeology and German "orientalism." Marchand traces the history of the study, excavation, and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social, cultural, and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries.
Download or read book Anecdotes Observations and Characters of Books and Men written by Joseph Spence and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anecdotes Observations and Characters of Books and Men Collected from the Conversation of Pope and Other Eminent Persons With Notes and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer 2 Ed written by Joseph Spence and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature and Society in Historical Context written by Mikulas Teich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays describing the historical connection between nature and society.
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anecdotes observations and characters of books and men Collected from the conversation of Mr Pope and other eminent persons of his time Now first published from the original papers with notes and a life of the author by S W Singer Appendix Letters to Mr Spence written by Joseph SPENCE and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nollekens and His Times and Memoirs of Contemporary Artists from the Time of Roubiliac Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli Flaxman and Blake written by John Thomas Smith and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Companion to the History of Modern Science written by G N Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 1095 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A descriptive and analytical guide to the development of Western science from AD 1500, and to the diversity and course of that development first in Europe and later across the world * Presented in clear, non-technical language * Extensive indexes of Subjects and Names `Indeed a companion volume whose 67 essays give pleasure and instruction ... an ambitious and successful work.' - Times Literary Supplement `This work is an essential resource for libraries everywhere. For specialist science libraries willing to keep just one encyclopaedic guide to history, for undergraduate libraries seeking to provide easily accessible information, for the devisers of university curricula, for the modern social historian or even the eclectic scientist taking a break from simply making history, this is the book for you.' - Times Higher Education Supplement `A pleasure to read with a carefully chosen typeface, well organized pages and ample margins ... it is very easy to find one's way around. This is a book which will be consulted widely.' - Technovation `This is a commendably easy book to use.' - British Journal of the History of Science `Scholars from other areas entering this field, students taking the vertical approach and teachers coming from any direction cannot fail to find this an invaluable text.' - History of Science Journal
Download or read book Murky waters written by Sophie Vasset and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of 'murkiness', it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.
Download or read book The Works of Alexander Pope in Six sic Volumes Complete Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose written by Alexander Pope and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Never Pure written by Steven Shapin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Shapin argues that science, for all its immense authority and power, is and always has been a human endeavor, subject to human capacities and limits. Put simply, science has never been pure. To be human is to err, and we understand science better when we recognize it as the laborious achievement of fallible, imperfect, and historically situated human beings. Shapin’s essays collected here include reflections on the historical relationships between science and common sense, between science and modernity, and between science and the moral order. They explore the relevance of physical and social settings in the making of scientific knowledge, the methods appropriate to understanding science historically, dietetics as a compelling site for historical inquiry, the identity of those who have made scientific knowledge, and the means by which science has acquired credibility and authority. This wide-ranging and intensely interdisciplinary collection by one of the most distinguished historians and sociologists of science represents some of the leading edges of change in the scholarly understanding of science over the past several decades.
Download or read book Wallace s Year book of Trotting and Pacing in written by John Hankins Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
