Author: Abraham Edlin
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Category : Bread
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Treatise on the Art of Bread-making
Author: Abraham Edlin
Publisher:
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Category : Bread
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Publisher:
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Category : Bread
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Measuring Shadows
Author: Raz Chen-Morris
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027107731X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027107731X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge. Chen-Morris reveals how Kepler’s ideas about the formation of images on the retina and the geometrics of the camera obscura, as well as his astronomical observations, advanced the argument that physical reality could only be described through artificially produced shadows, reflections, and refractions. Breaking from medieval and Renaissance traditions that insisted upon direct sensory perception, Kepler advocated for instruments as mediators between the eye and physical reality, and for mathematical language to describe motion. It was only through this kind of knowledge, he argued, that observation could produce certainty about the heavens. Not only was this conception of visibility crucial to advancing the early modern understanding of vision and the retina, but it affected how people during that period approached and understood the world around them.
A Complete Treatise on Practical Land-surveying
Author: Thomas Holliday (Land Surveyor.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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A Treatise on the Measure of Damages
Author: Theodore Sedgwick
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Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Damages
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
Author: James Clerk Maxwell
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Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category : Electric power
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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A Treatise of Human Nature
Author: David Hume
Publisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. ’Tis easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself. Nor is there requir’d such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the [ xviii ]rabble without doors may judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions. The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. Amidst all this bustle ’tis not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
Publisher: VM eBooks
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 685
Book Description
Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. ’Tis easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself. Nor is there requir’d such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the [ xviii ]rabble without doors may judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions. The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. Amidst all this bustle ’tis not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
A Treatise of Algebra
Author: Colin MacLaurin
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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Publisher:
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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts
Author: Colin MacLaurin
Publisher:
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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
A Treatise on the Measure of Damages
Author: Theodore Sedgwick
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587980640
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
A monumental work on the subject thoroughly covering the history of legal principles and the cases up to 1912 establishing existing rules.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587980640
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
A monumental work on the subject thoroughly covering the history of legal principles and the cases up to 1912 establishing existing rules.
Caspar's Directory of the American Book, News and Stationery Trade, Wholesale and Retail, Comprising [also The] ...
Author: Carl Nicolaus Caspar
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
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