Author: Samuel Leigh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Leigh's New Picture of London; Or ... a Luminous Guide to the Stranger
Author: Samuel Leigh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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Leigh's New Picture of London;
Author: Samuel Leigh
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Leigh's new picture of London; or, A view of the ... British metropolis [ed. by S.C.].
Author: Samuel Leigh (publisher.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Leigh's New Picture of London, Or: A View of the Political, Religious, Medical, Literary, Municipal, Commercial, and Moral State of the British Metropolis
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Leigh's New Picture of London ... New edition, carefully revised
Author: Samuel LEIGH (Publisher.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Troy, Carthage and the Victorians
Author: Rachel Bryant Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108135544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, how archaeological discoveries in the Troad and North Africa sparked dramatic debates, and how their ruins were exploited to conceptualise problematic relationships between past, present and future. Rachel Bryant Davies breaks new ground in the afterlife of classical antiquity by revealing more complex and less constrained interaction with classical knowledge across a broader social spectrum than yet understood, drawing upon methodological developments from disciplines such as history of science and theatre history in order to do so. She also develops a thorough critical framework for understanding classical burlesque and engages in in-depth analysis of a toy-theatre production.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108135544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, how archaeological discoveries in the Troad and North Africa sparked dramatic debates, and how their ruins were exploited to conceptualise problematic relationships between past, present and future. Rachel Bryant Davies breaks new ground in the afterlife of classical antiquity by revealing more complex and less constrained interaction with classical knowledge across a broader social spectrum than yet understood, drawing upon methodological developments from disciplines such as history of science and theatre history in order to do so. She also develops a thorough critical framework for understanding classical burlesque and engages in in-depth analysis of a toy-theatre production.
New Picture of London, Or a View of the Political ... and Moral State of the British Metropolis (etc.) 4. Ed
Author: Samuel Leigh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Leigh's New Pocket Road-Book of Ireland ... on the plan of Reichard's Itineraries, etc. [Edited by C. C. Hamilton.]
Author: Samuel LEIGH (Publisher.)
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Leigh's New Pocket Road-book of Ireland
Author: Samuel Leigh (Publisher.)
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy
Author: Brian Gee
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317133293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317133293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.