Author: Richard Adams Locke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Some Account of the Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Richard Adams Locke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel ... at the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Richard Adams Locke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel ... at the Cape of Good Hope
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Some Account of the Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope
Author: Richard Adams Locke
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 85
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
The Celebrated “Moon Story.” (Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir J. Herschel ... at the Cape of Good Hope.) ... With a Memoir of the Author and an Appendix, Containing I. an Authentic Description of the Moon, II. a New Theory of the Lunar Surface in Relation to that of the Earth, by W. N. Griggs
Author: Richard Adams LOCKE
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Some Account of the great astronomical Discoveries made by Sir J. H., at the Cape of Good Hope. [A hoax, by R. A. Locke.]
Author: John Frederick William Herschel
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to John Herschel
Author: Stephen Case
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009237691
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
It has been said that being scientific in Victorian England meant to be as much like John Herschel as possible. This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792-1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever comprehensive account of Herschel's life, work, and legacy. From mathematics and astronomy, to philosophy and politics, the volume sheds new light on his crucial role in the history of Victorian science and explores a wide array of issues in the history of nineteenth-century culture, philosophy, mathematics, and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009237691
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
It has been said that being scientific in Victorian England meant to be as much like John Herschel as possible. This volume shows readers what it meant to be John Herschel (1792-1871), one of England's most prominent polymaths. Drawing on his published oeuvre and recent scholarship, as well as an immense amount of surviving archival material and correspondence, these essays present the first ever comprehensive account of Herschel's life, work, and legacy. From mathematics and astronomy, to philosophy and politics, the volume sheds new light on his crucial role in the history of Victorian science and explores a wide array of issues in the history of nineteenth-century culture, philosophy, mathematics, and beyond.
Practical Talks by an Astronomer
Author: Harold Jacoby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In Truth
Author: Matthew Fraser
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How have those with power and influence sought to control the narrative? Are we living in a post-truth era, or is that notion simply the latest attempt to control the narrative? The relationship between truth and power is the key theme. Moving through major historical periods, the author focuses on notable people and events, from well-known leaders like Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler to lesser-known individuals like Procopius and Savonarola. He notes distinct parallels in history to current events. Julius Caesar's publication of his Gallic Wars and Civil Wars was an early exercise in political spin not unlike what we see today. During the English Civil War and the Enlightenment, pamphleteering coupled with the new power of the printing press challenged the status quo, as online and social media does in our time. And "fake news" was already being used by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in nineteenth-century Europe and by the "yellow journalism" of American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer near the turn of the twentieth century. The author concludes optimistically, noting that we are debating and discussing truth more fiercely today than in any previous era. The determination to arrive at the truth, despite the manipulations of the powerful, bodes well for the future of democracy.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1633886255
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern era, how have people determined what is true? How have those with power and influence sought to control the narrative? Are we living in a post-truth era, or is that notion simply the latest attempt to control the narrative? The relationship between truth and power is the key theme. Moving through major historical periods, the author focuses on notable people and events, from well-known leaders like Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler to lesser-known individuals like Procopius and Savonarola. He notes distinct parallels in history to current events. Julius Caesar's publication of his Gallic Wars and Civil Wars was an early exercise in political spin not unlike what we see today. During the English Civil War and the Enlightenment, pamphleteering coupled with the new power of the printing press challenged the status quo, as online and social media does in our time. And "fake news" was already being used by German chancellor Otto von Bismarck in nineteenth-century Europe and by the "yellow journalism" of American newspaper magnates William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer near the turn of the twentieth century. The author concludes optimistically, noting that we are debating and discussing truth more fiercely today than in any previous era. The determination to arrive at the truth, despite the manipulations of the powerful, bodes well for the future of democracy.
Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description