Author: Martin FOLKES
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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A Table of English Gold Coins, from the eighteenth year of King Edward III. ... With their several weights, and present intrinsic values
Author: Martin FOLKES
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
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A Table of English Gold Coins
Author: Martin Folkes
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Category : Coins, English
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Coins, English
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Catalogue of the Library
Author: Henry B. Humphrey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382118009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382118009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art
Author: ohne Autor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048305
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846048305
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192565656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192565656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
Johnson's (revised) Universal Cyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750
Author: L. W. Hanson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.