Download or read book Science Fables and Chimeras written by Philippe Murillo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of science provides numerous examples of the way in which imagination, religion and mythology have sometimes helped and sometimes hindered scientific progress. While established ideas and beliefs clearly held back the discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Darwin, the intuitive knowledge found in mythology, art and religion has often proved useful in indicating new ways in which to explore or represent new knowledge of the world. Stories, fables and images have contributed to drawing a fuller picture of the past, understanding the present and imagining the future. The essays in this book, written by academics, writers and artists from various fields ranging from La Fontaine’s fables to nanotechnology and modern art, all point out the ways in which imagination works its way into all the fields of knowledge. At both ends of the spectrum, the hybrid nature of the chimera emerges as a pivotal symbol of both man’s predation instinct and a powerful symbol of his fear of extinction. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together visual representation, literature, mysticism, and science, will appeal to historians of science, philosophy, art and religion. It will also be of interest to scholars in cultural studies and anthropology. Drawing on recent scientific research and artistic production, the volume will additionally interest a wider audience wishing to learn more about man’s obsession and fascination with the potent symbolism of dinosaurs and dragons and all hybrid forms generated by the human imagination and recent technology.

Download or read book Science Fables and Chimeras written by Laurence Roussillon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our contemporary civilizations are steeped in myth despite scientific progress and Darwinism.

Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient form of the animal fable, in which the characteristics of humans and animals are playfully and educationally intertwined, took on a wholly new meaning after Darwin's theory of evolution changed forever the relationship between humans and animals. In this original study, Chris Danta provides an important and original account of how the fable was adopted and re-adapted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors to challenge traditional views of species hierarchy. The rise of the biological sciences in the second half of the nineteenth century provided literary writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Franz Kafka, Angela Carter and J. M. Coetzee with new material for the fable. By interrogating the form of the fable, and through it the idea of human exceptionalism, writers asked new questions about the place of the human in relation to its biological milieu.

Download or read book The Origin of Laws Arts and Sciences and Their Progress Among the Most Ancient Nations written by Antoine-Yves Goguet and published by . This book was released on 1761 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Laws Arts and Sciences and Their Progress Among the Most Ancient Nations Adorned with Cuts written by Antoine Yves GOGUET and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Science Stories written by Clyde Freeman Herreid and published by NSTA Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories give life and substance to scientific methods and provide an inside look at scientists in action. Case studies deepen scientific understanding, sharpen critical-thinking skills, and help students see how science relates to their lives. In Science Stories, Clyde Freeman Herreid, Nancy Schiller, and Ky Herreid have organized case studies into categories such as historical cases, science and the media, and ethics and the scientific process. Each case study comprises a story, classroom discussion questions, teaching notes and background information, objectives, and common misconceptions about the topic, as well as helpful references. College-level educators and high school teachers will find that this compilation of case studies will allow students to make connections between the classroom and everyday life.

Download or read book The new encyclop dia or Universal dictionary ofarts and sciences written by Encyclopaedia Perthensis and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literature Science and Public Policy written by Jay Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature can influence scientific controversies and shape policy concerning evolution, genetics, and genomics.

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Download or read book The New Encyclopaedia Or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences written by Alexander Aitchison and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book C Is for Chimera written by Rhonda Parrish (Editor) and published by Poise and Pen Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This installment of Rhonda Parrish's alphabet anthology series asks skilled storytellers to write around the theme of chimera. The resulting tales are part fable, part poem, part dream. But like any chimera, the parts make up a greater whole.Blend reality with fantasy. Mesh science fiction with mystery. Mix history with what should have been. They are all chimera.A shadow tells a tale of schoolyard bullies. A long-vanished monster returns from the cold dark. Make-up makes up a life. Alchemy, Atlantis, and apocalypse. These 26 tales bring both chaos and closure to dark and elusively fantastic geographies.Contributing authors include: BD Wilson Jonathan C. Parrish Alexandra Seidel Pete Aldin Beth Cato L.S. Johnson Marge Simon Simon Kewin Samantha Kymmell-Harvey C.S. MacCath Suzanne van Rooyen KV Taylor Sara Cleto Michael M. Jones Michael Fosburg Milo James Fowler Laura VanArendonk Baugh Megan Arkenberg Michael B. Tager Gabrielle Harbowy Steve Bornstein Lilah Wild Amanda C. Davis Megan Engelhardt Michael Kellar Brittany Warman

Download or read book Bibliotheca Technologica or a philological library of literary arts and sciences etc written by Benjamin MARTIN (Optician.) and published by . This book was released on 1737 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origin of Laws Arts and Sciences written by Antoine-Yves Goguet and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Natural Law and the Law of Nations in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Italy written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access publication of this book was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. This volume sheds new light on modern theories of natural law through the lens of the fragmented political contexts of Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic changes of the times. From the age of reforms, through revolution and the ‘Risorgimento’, the unification movement which ended with the creation of the unified Kingdom of Italy in 1861, we see a move from natural law and the law of nations to international law, whose teaching was introduced in Italian universities of the newly created Kingdom. The essays collected here show that natural law was not only the subject of a highly codified academic teaching, but also provided a broader conceptual and philosophical frame underlying the ‘science of man’. Natural law is also a language wherein reform programmes of education and of politics have taken form, affecting a variety of discourses and literary genres. Contributors are: Alberto Clerici, Vittor Ivo Comparato, Giuseppina De Giudici, Frédéric Ieva, Girolamo Imbruglia, Francesca Iurlaro, Serena Luzzi, Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina, Emanuele Salerno, Gabriella Silvestrini, Antonio Trampus.

Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.