Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 526

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: University of St. Andrews. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Mary D. Archer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521828734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Get Book Here

Book Description
A history of the 1702 chair in chemistry at the University of Cambridge.

Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900

Get Book Here

Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871026
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Get Book Here

Book Description
Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action—mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author demonstrates that mechanistic concepts dominated interpretations from about 1687 to 1740, when they were replaced by materialistic concepts. A revival of the mechanistic approach early in the next century made England a fertile field for ideas on the dynamic interaction of forces. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astrolabes
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Get Book Here

Book Description

Author: Sylvia Heudecker
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443875082
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Get Book Here

Book Description
Nature can be collected in many forms and shapes: live animals have been locked up in cages, displayed in zoos and menageries and their hides and dried body parts have been used as part of installations in galleries and studies. Plants from far-away countries have been cultivated in botanical gardens and in hothouses. Furthermore, the depiction of medicinal plants and of prized animals was regarded as an important part of the decorative schemes, in an attempt to bring nature indoors. Recent research has also shown that artificialia and naturalia were displayed side by side in early modern Europe—sometimes in the company of scientifica—and that the exhibition set-up often included a complex arrangement of stables, kennels, aviaries, art gallery and library. Villas and country houses displayed favourite horses as well as paintings and antiquities. Botanical gardens and gardens of simples at monastic foundations and universities imposed order and intellectual scope to the cultivation of many new species imported to Europe during the age of exploration. Of particular interest to the mission of this working group is the fact that so many collections of naturalia were displayed in close proximity to other collecting categories, according to a similar choreography as well as according to a similar logistical set-up. Thus, the collections, outdoors as well as indoors, resemble one another in terms of labels adopted and discussions conducted on the respective merits of order and categorisation. The essays in the present volume, therefore, connect art, nature and science by tracing objects, as well as the practices of collecting and display from the early kunst- und wunderkammern to the more scientific aspirations and publications of the eighteenth century. Indoor as well as outdoor locations of collecting are considered as well as the dissemination of objects and knowledge in the form of books during a period, which gradually led from an intrinsic, if untidy, connection between art and nature towards a new world of clear, if unhappy, divisions.