Author: William Nicholson
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Author: William Nicholson
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
Author: William Nicholson
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Clouds
Author: Richard Hamblyn
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variety having inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Described by Aristophanes as “the patron goddesses of idle men,” clouds and the ever-changing patterns they create have long symbolized the restlessness and unpredictability of nature, and yet they are also the source of life-giving rains. In this book, Richard Hamblyn examines clouds in their cultural, historic, and scientific contexts, exploring their prevalence in our skies as well as in our literature, art, and music. As Hamblyn shows, clouds function not only as a crucial means of circulating water around the globe but also as a finely tuned thermostat regulating the planet’s temperature. He discusses the many different kinds of clouds, from high, scattered cirrus clouds to the plump thought-bubbles of cumulus clouds, even exploring man-made clouds and clouds on other planets. He also shows how clouds have featured as meaningful symbols in human culture, whether as ominous portents of coming calamities or as ethereal figures giving shape to the heavens, whether in Wordsworth’s poetry or today’s tech speak. Comprehensive yet compact, cogent and beautifully illustrated, this is the ultimate guidebook to those shapeshifters of the sky.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variety having inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Described by Aristophanes as “the patron goddesses of idle men,” clouds and the ever-changing patterns they create have long symbolized the restlessness and unpredictability of nature, and yet they are also the source of life-giving rains. In this book, Richard Hamblyn examines clouds in their cultural, historic, and scientific contexts, exploring their prevalence in our skies as well as in our literature, art, and music. As Hamblyn shows, clouds function not only as a crucial means of circulating water around the globe but also as a finely tuned thermostat regulating the planet’s temperature. He discusses the many different kinds of clouds, from high, scattered cirrus clouds to the plump thought-bubbles of cumulus clouds, even exploring man-made clouds and clouds on other planets. He also shows how clouds have featured as meaningful symbols in human culture, whether as ominous portents of coming calamities or as ethereal figures giving shape to the heavens, whether in Wordsworth’s poetry or today’s tech speak. Comprehensive yet compact, cogent and beautifully illustrated, this is the ultimate guidebook to those shapeshifters of the sky.
Technologies of the Picturesque
Author: Ron Broglio
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838757000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838757000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
With considerable learning and insight, Broglio reveals how artists are both complicit with such objectification of nature, and at other moments work toward a more vivid connection to the environment."--BOOK JACKET.
A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard
Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge). Library
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Library of the College of St. Margaret Ad St. Bernard, Commonly Called Queen's College
Author: Queens' College (University of Cambridge) Library
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Catalogs, Classified
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Captive of the Castle of Sennaar
Author: George A. Cumberland
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562354
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and unjust was deemed by his lawyer to be potentially seditious; the novel was only published a decade later, and then in revised form. The second part, set in central Africa's Mountains of the Moon among descendants of followers of a fourth-century Christian heretic, is published here for the first time. Cumberland was a widely cultivated and deeply humane dilettante. A poet, painter, distinguished collector of prints and shells, and scientific inventor, he was passionately concerned with the reform of politics and society. He was also friends with some of the best authors and painters of his time, including William Blake, who encouraged Cumberland's ideals. Bentley describes the similarities between Blake's radical analysis of society and his early ideas on free love, sexuality, slavery, natural religion, and energy and the ideals Cumberland espouses in The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar. Bentley provides historical and geographical appendixes, textual and commentary notes, and a comparison of Cumberland's work to Simon Berington's The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentino di Lucca. Bentley's edition of The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar will be of interest to Blake scholars and to students and scholars of utopian literature and late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773562354
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The first part, set on an island in central Africa among descendants of classical Greek civilization, was printed in 1789 but immediately suppressed by Cumberland. A passage describing society everywhere except on the utopian island as oligarchic and unjust was deemed by his lawyer to be potentially seditious; the novel was only published a decade later, and then in revised form. The second part, set in central Africa's Mountains of the Moon among descendants of followers of a fourth-century Christian heretic, is published here for the first time. Cumberland was a widely cultivated and deeply humane dilettante. A poet, painter, distinguished collector of prints and shells, and scientific inventor, he was passionately concerned with the reform of politics and society. He was also friends with some of the best authors and painters of his time, including William Blake, who encouraged Cumberland's ideals. Bentley describes the similarities between Blake's radical analysis of society and his early ideas on free love, sexuality, slavery, natural religion, and energy and the ideals Cumberland espouses in The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar. Bentley provides historical and geographical appendixes, textual and commentary notes, and a comparison of Cumberland's work to Simon Berington's The Memoirs of Signor Gaudentino di Lucca. Bentley's edition of The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar will be of interest to Blake scholars and to students and scholars of utopian literature and late eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and culture.
The Scientific writings of James Smithson
Author: J. Smithson
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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