Download or read book The Natural History of Animals Vegetables and Minerals written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History of Animals Vegetables and Minerals written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1775 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Natural History General and Particular written by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brilliant Effects written by Marcia R. Pointon and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2009 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pointon examines how small-scale and valuable artefacts have figured in systems of belief and in political and social practice in Europe since the Renaissance.
Download or read book American Bibliopolist written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Bibliopolist written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulations and Catalogue of the Glasgow Public Library written by Public Library (GLASGOW) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natural History and Scientific Book Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Botanists and Zoologists written by Dean Miller and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, a breakdown of the life and work of some of history's pioneers in the study of plants and animals are thoroughly explored. It provides excellent biographical sketches for trailblazers in the sciences. Articles are devoted to specific scientists, covering their contributions to their field, specifically addressing how their research, discoveries, and inventions impacted human understanding and experience. This volume covers names from around the world and throughout the centuries, with a chapter specifically devoted to the top scientific contributors of the 21st century.
Download or read book Animal Vegetable Mineral written by Susannah Gibson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the natural world divide neatly into 'animal, vegetable, mineral'? Discoveries in the 18th century threw the question wide open; debates raged, and fed into wider religious and political battles concerning God's creation and the natural social order.
Download or read book The Wonders of the Animal Kingdom Exhibiting Delineations of the Most Distinguished Wild Animals in the Menageries of this Country Etc written by Robert Huish and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Human All Too Human written by Diana Fuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what it means to be human has never before been more difficult and more contested. The human, with a complicated social history that his rarely been examined, remains entrenched in traditional Enlightenment thinking. Human, All Too Human considers how we might radicalize our notion of the human. Can the human be thought outside humanism? Any rethinking of the human places us immediately inside an ever-widening field of contrasting labels: animate and inanimate, natural and artificial, living and dead, organic and mechanistic. These and other boundary confusions at the frontier of the human are the subject of this volume, as each essay takes up one of three disputed border identities: animals, things or children. Human, All Too Human examines how we explain our interest in anthropomorphism and our fascination with species categorizations. Essays explore what we mean by things and how the integrity of the human may already be compromised by them. The nine essays in this volume all attempt to rethink the category of the human, challenging some of our most cherished cultural classifications. By inviting us to place the traditions subject of knowledge in the unsettling position of object, these writers interrogate the boundary distinctions that, until now, have exempted the human from the vigilant analysis it so urgently requires. Contributors: Nancy Armstrong, Rey Chow, Drucilla Cornell, Diana Fuss, Marjorie Garber, Barbara Johnson, Cora Kaplan, James Kincaid, Harriet Ritvo, David Willis
Download or read book A Hideous Monster of the Mind written by Bruce Dain and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. A Hideous Monster of the Mind reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism, and latter-day Afrocentrism. From 1800 to 1830 in particular, race took on a new reality as Americans, black and white, reacted to postrevolutionary disillusionment, the events of the Haitian Revolution, the rise of cotton culture, and the entrenchment of slavery. Dain examines not only major white figures like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Stanhope Smith, but also the first self-consciously "black" African-American writers. These various thinkers transformed late-eighteenth-century European environmentalist "natural history" into race theories that combined culture and biology and set the terms for later controversies over slavery and abolition. In those debates, the ethnology of Samuel George Morton and Josiah Nott intertwined conceptually with important writing by black authors who have been largely forgotten, like Hosea Easton and James McCune Smith. Scientific racism and the idea of races as cultural constructions were thus interrelated aspects of the same effort to explain human differences. In retrieving neglected African-American thinkers, reestablishing the European intellectual background to American racial theory, and demonstrating the deep confusion "race" caused for thinkers black and white, A Hideous Monster of the Mind offers an engaging and enlightening new perspective on modern American racial thought.
Download or read book The Natural Laws of Plot written by Yoon Sun Lee and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between plot and setting—and indeed, whether we can make such a distinction. After all, plot, Yoon Sun Lee contends, cannot be disentangled from the material setting in which it takes place. In The Natural Laws of Plot, Lee connects the history of the novel and the history of science to show how plot in the realist novel is given shape by the characteristics of the physical world—and how in turn, plot serves as the avenue through which the realist novel participates in the same lines of inquiry about the world as pursued by the natural and physical sciences. Lee argues that the novel emerges and evolves in tandem with the development of scientific practices and concepts in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe to investigate the idea of a unified and objective world. Drawing on readings from Defoe, Austen, Scott, and many others, Lee demonstrates how bodies, human and non-human, behave according to laws that are built into worlds by plot, and how they are subject to causes and consequences that can occur independently of individual action, social forces, or metaphysical destiny. This interest in representing and exploring how things happen sets the novel apart from other literary genres, and makes the history of science integral to the understanding of the history and theory of the novel, and of narrative. Plot, Lee shows us, is immersive and powerful, because it satisfies our wish to know how things happen in a coherent, objective, and possibly real world.
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