Author: John Harrison
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Principes de la Montre de M. Harrison, Avec Les Planches Relatives À la Même Montre
Author: John Harrison
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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The Principles of Mr. Harrison's Time-keeper
Author: John Harrison
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Category : Chronometers
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea.
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Category : Chronometers
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea.
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science and Medicine
Author: Diana H. Hook
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Of Time and Measurement
Author: Anthony John Turner
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The history of precision technology may seem a small, specialised subject, concerned with the development of such mundane, even banal objects as sun-dials, sand-glasses, clocks or rulers and other measuring instruments. Yet their development, as the author holds, has helped condition how we relate to the natural world and is therefore a key aspect of cultural history. For many classes of instruments there are still no basic narrative accounts of their internal evolution, and a number of these studies represent an effort towards fulfilling that need. In others, starting with an object or an object and its maker, the author asks what did it do, and then who wanted it to do it and why, penetrating into the more general social context. In time the studies range from Antiquity to the 19th century, but the emphasis is on the period from the 16th century onwards.L'histoire de la technologie de précision peut paraître comme étant un sujet spécialisé de moindre importance, se rapportant au développment d'objets quelconque, voire banals, tels les cadrans solaires, les sabliers, les horloges, les règles et autres instruments de mesure. D'après l'auteur, leur développement a cependant contribué à déterminer la façon dont nous nous rapportons au monde naturel et fait de ceux-ci l'un des aspects à la clef de notre histoire culturelle. Pour un bon nombre de catégories d'instruments, il n'existe toujours pas de relation de base concernant leur évolution interne; un effort a été accompli au travers de certaines des études contenues dans ce recueil, afin de combler cette lacune. Dans d'autres, l'auteur, débutant par un objet seul, ou bien encore un objet et son créateur, pose la question de savoir ce à quoi celui-ci servait, à qui il était destiné à servir et pourquoi, pénétrant ainsi dans un contexte social plus généralisé. Du point de vue de la chronologie, les études partent de l'Antiquité et vont jusqu'au 19e siècle, l'accent étant surtout mis à partir du 16e siècle.
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The history of precision technology may seem a small, specialised subject, concerned with the development of such mundane, even banal objects as sun-dials, sand-glasses, clocks or rulers and other measuring instruments. Yet their development, as the author holds, has helped condition how we relate to the natural world and is therefore a key aspect of cultural history. For many classes of instruments there are still no basic narrative accounts of their internal evolution, and a number of these studies represent an effort towards fulfilling that need. In others, starting with an object or an object and its maker, the author asks what did it do, and then who wanted it to do it and why, penetrating into the more general social context. In time the studies range from Antiquity to the 19th century, but the emphasis is on the period from the 16th century onwards.L'histoire de la technologie de précision peut paraître comme étant un sujet spécialisé de moindre importance, se rapportant au développment d'objets quelconque, voire banals, tels les cadrans solaires, les sabliers, les horloges, les règles et autres instruments de mesure. D'après l'auteur, leur développement a cependant contribué à déterminer la façon dont nous nous rapportons au monde naturel et fait de ceux-ci l'un des aspects à la clef de notre histoire culturelle. Pour un bon nombre de catégories d'instruments, il n'existe toujours pas de relation de base concernant leur évolution interne; un effort a été accompli au travers de certaines des études contenues dans ce recueil, afin de combler cette lacune. Dans d'autres, l'auteur, débutant par un objet seul, ou bien encore un objet et son créateur, pose la question de savoir ce à quoi celui-ci servait, à qui il était destiné à servir et pourquoi, pénétrant ainsi dans un contexte social plus généralisé. Du point de vue de la chronologie, les études partent de l'Antiquité et vont jusqu'au 19e siècle, l'accent étant surtout mis à partir du 16e siècle.
Principes de la montre de Mr. Harrison, avec les planches relatives a la même montre, imprimés à Londres en 1767 par ordre de Mrs. les Commissaires des Longitudes
Author: John Harrison
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Category : Chronometers
Languages : fr
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Chronometers
Languages : fr
Pages : 58
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Principes de la montre de Mr. Harrison avec les planches relatives a la même montre
Author: John Harrison
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
First French and first bilingual ed. which includes the full text of the first English ed. of the same year. Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea. This ed. was the work of the Jesuit mathematician Esprit Pezenas of the Ecole Royale d'Hydrographie, Director of the Observatoire Ste Croix.
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
First French and first bilingual ed. which includes the full text of the first English ed. of the same year. Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea. This ed. was the work of the Jesuit mathematician Esprit Pezenas of the Ecole Royale d'Hydrographie, Director of the Observatoire Ste Croix.
Salvator Rosa in French Literature
Author: James Patty
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813171938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813171938
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
" Salvator Rosa (1615–1673) was a colorful and controversial Italian painter, talented musician, a notable comic actor, a prolific correspondent, and a successful satirist and poet. His paintings, especially his rugged landscapes and their evocation of the sublime, appealed to Romantic writers, and his work was highly influential on several generations of European writers. James S. Patty analyzes Rosa’s tremendous influence on French writers, chiefly those of the nineteenth century, such as Stendhal, Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, George Sand, and Théophile Gautier. Arranged in chronological order, with numerous quotations from French fiction, poetry, drama, art criticism, art history, literary history, and reference works, Salvator Rosa in French Literature forms a narrative account of the reception of Rosa’s life and work in the world of French letters. James S. Patty, professor emeritus of French at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Dürer in French Letters . He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Kaskaskia Records, 1778-1790
Author: Clarence Walworth Alvord
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : fr
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : fr
Pages : 786
Book Description
Draft Conventions and Recommendations
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Category : Industrial legislation, International
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Industrial legislation, International
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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