Author: Andrew J. Simoson
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883853368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, who imagined that the expanse of heaven and the depth of hell was the distance that an anvil falls in nine days. The reader will learn that Dante's implicit model of the earth implies a black hole at its core, that Edmond Halley championed a hollow earth, and that Da Vinci knew that the acceleration due to Earth's gravity was a constant. There are chapters modeling Jules Verne's and H.G. Wells' imaginative flights to the moon and back, analyses of Edgar Alan Poe's descending pendulum, and the solution to an old problem perhaps inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It blends with equal voice romantic whimsy and derived equations, and anyone interested in mathematics will find new and surprising ideas about motion and the people who thought about it.
Hesiod's Anvil
Author: Andrew J. Simoson
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883853368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, who imagined that the expanse of heaven and the depth of hell was the distance that an anvil falls in nine days. The reader will learn that Dante's implicit model of the earth implies a black hole at its core, that Edmond Halley championed a hollow earth, and that Da Vinci knew that the acceleration due to Earth's gravity was a constant. There are chapters modeling Jules Verne's and H.G. Wells' imaginative flights to the moon and back, analyses of Edgar Alan Poe's descending pendulum, and the solution to an old problem perhaps inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It blends with equal voice romantic whimsy and derived equations, and anyone interested in mathematics will find new and surprising ideas about motion and the people who thought about it.
Publisher: MAA
ISBN: 9780883853368
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This book is about how poets, philosophers, storytellers, and scientists have described motion, beginning with Hesiod, who imagined that the expanse of heaven and the depth of hell was the distance that an anvil falls in nine days. The reader will learn that Dante's implicit model of the earth implies a black hole at its core, that Edmond Halley championed a hollow earth, and that Da Vinci knew that the acceleration due to Earth's gravity was a constant. There are chapters modeling Jules Verne's and H.G. Wells' imaginative flights to the moon and back, analyses of Edgar Alan Poe's descending pendulum, and the solution to an old problem perhaps inspired by one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. It blends with equal voice romantic whimsy and derived equations, and anyone interested in mathematics will find new and surprising ideas about motion and the people who thought about it.
Homer and the Poetics of Gesture
Author: Alex C. Purves
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190857927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190857927
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.
The Chautauquan
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Languages : en
Pages : 846
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The Heavens
Author: Jean-Henri Fabre
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis
Author: Hesiod
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Epic poetry, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The works of Hesiod, Callimachus and Theognis
Author: Hesiodus
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Languages : en
Pages : 568
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The Earliest Cosmologies
Author: William Fairfield Warren
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Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Cosmology
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Classical Philology
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Hesiod
Author: Hesiod
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Languages : en
Pages : 710
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