Author: Tabitta Van Nouhuys
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004112049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.
The Ages of Two-faced Janus
Author: Tabitta Van Nouhuys
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004112049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004112049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
This volume deals with the tracts - Latin and vernacular - published in the Netherlands on the comets of 1577 and 1618. Central to the book is the question of how these cometary appearances influenced the Aristotelian world view. This is the first lengthy examination of the decline of Aristotelian cosmology in the Netherlands. Its demonstration of the connection between cosmological and political views renders the book useful to historians of general Dutch history, as well as historians of science.
Myths of greece and rome
Author: H. A. Guerber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources
Author: Andrea T. Merrill
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0789020904
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Culled from papers presented at a Library of Congress symposium in October 2000, The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect examines the challenges you face in preserving and safeguarding your library's resources. Twenty-two leading library and archival professionals address critical issues on the preservation and security of collections in cultural property institutions, including libraries, museums, and archives. The book explores the connections between physical security and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0789020904
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Culled from papers presented at a Library of Congress symposium in October 2000, The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve and Protect examines the challenges you face in preserving and safeguarding your library's resources. Twenty-two leading library and archival professionals address critical issues on the preservation and security of collections in cultural property institutions, including libraries, museums, and archives. The book explores the connections between physical security and the preservation of our cultural heritage.
Faces around the World
Author: Margo DeMello
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846183
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives. Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities. In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846183
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives. Our faces identify who we are—not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A–Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities. In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the world. Readers will learn about a wide variety of topics, including identity in different cultures; religious beliefs; folklore; extreme beautification; the "evil eye;" scarification; facial piercing and facial tattooing masks; social views about beauty including cosmetic surgery and makeup; how gender, class and sexuality play a role in our understanding of the face; and skin, eye, mouth, nose, and ear diseases and disorders. This encyclopedia is ideal for high school and undergraduate students studying anthropology, anatomy, gender, religion, and world cultures.
A Dictionary of Roman Coins, Republican and Imperial
Author: Seth William Stevenson
Publisher:
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Category : Coins, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Roman
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Christian Iconography: The Trinity. Angels. Devils. Death. The soul. The Christian scheme. Appendices
Author: Adolphe Napoléon Didron
Publisher:
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Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Historical and Miscellaneous Question
Author: Richmal Mangnall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Historical and Miscellaneous Questions
Author: Richmal Mangnall
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The City of London Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Europa Triumphans
Author: J. R. Mulryne
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754638735
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books. Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival.These festivals are represented not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of the festival and of the iconography, spectacle, music, dance, voice and gesture in which they were expressed.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754638735
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A landmark in the study of early modern Europe, this two-volume collection makes available for the first time a selection of the most important texts from court and civic festival books. Festival entertainments were presented to mark such occasions as royal and ducal entries to capital cities, dynastic marriages, the birth and christening of heirs, religious feasts and royal and ducal funerals. Europa Triumphans represents the chronological and trans-European range of the court and civic festival.These festivals are represented not simply as texts, but as events, and are introduced by groups of scholars, each with a specialist knowledge of the political, social and cultural significance of the festival and of the iconography, spectacle, music, dance, voice and gesture in which they were expressed.