Author: James Anthony Froude
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Thomas Carlyle
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Languages : en
Pages : 628
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The Cosmopolitan
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
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Scattered Suns: The Saga of Seven Suns - Book #4
Author: Kevin J. Anderson
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 0759515182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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The fourth novel in the Saga of Seven Suns series executes a plan that has been long in the making. The final, most powerful enemy against the humans is about to be launched; how will they survive? The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. The Ildirans are engaged in a bloody civil war and are bitterly divided. Can they overcome their internal fighting to face a deadly new enemy?
Publisher: Aspect
ISBN: 0759515182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The fourth novel in the Saga of Seven Suns series executes a plan that has been long in the making. The final, most powerful enemy against the humans is about to be launched; how will they survive? The war between the alien hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. The Ildirans are engaged in a bloody civil war and are bitterly divided. Can they overcome their internal fighting to face a deadly new enemy?
Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Pages : 740
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 986
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Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology
Author: Sara Schechner Genuth
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
The Metropolitan Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Pages : 508
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Pages : 820
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Metropolitan, and The Foreign Quarterly Review
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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Scientific American
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.