Author: John Wilkins
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 412

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Author: John WILKINS (Bishop of Chester.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: Margaret Cavendish
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1554812429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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First published in 1666, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle’s Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World is the first fictional portrayal of women and the new science. In Blazing World, Cavendish depicts her heroine, the Empress, in multiple roles. The Empress is leader of a dreamlike utopian world reachable through the North Pole, filled with talking animals and intelligent hybrid creatures. She establishes a royal society of scientists, initiates learned conferences, interrogates existing knowledge, and spends her days speculating on natural philosophy. She also forms a lively intellectual collaboration with the “Duchess of Newcastle,” a female character summoned from Earth. A companion volume to Cavendish’s important Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Blazing World is the first science-fiction novel known to have been written and published by a woman, and represents a pioneering female scientific utopia. This Broadview Edition includes related historical materials on the new science and Cavendish’s role in the intellectual world of her time.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1060

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1062

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Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
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Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: James Fieser
Publisher: James Fieser
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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This document was the first in the four-volume series, The Life and Philosophy of George Tucker, published by Thoemmes Press in 2004, which is now out of print. Volumes 2-4 were facsimile reprints of, respectively, Essays on Various Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National Policy (1822), A Voyage to the Moon; with some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and other Lunarians (1827), and Essays, Moral and Metaphysical (1860). Volume 1 was a newly-edited version of his autobiography and several of his philosophical essays that appeared in pamphlets or periodicals.

Author: Judy A. Hayden
Publisher: MHRA
ISBN: 178188885X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Aphra Behn’s spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. Her play was largely adapted from Anne Mauduit de Fatouville’s Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune (1684), a commedia dell’arte production by the Comédie-Italienne troupe, a performance which also proved immensely popular with Parisian audiences. Within its witty and amusing three acts, Behn’s play explores a number of contemporary concerns — from commedia dell’arte, to gender and politics, to science and astronomy, including a plurality of worlds, for example — all culminating in the third act’s operatic spectacle. This volume offers a transcription of Behn’s 1687 play with extensive annotations, a critical discussion of Behn’s text, and the first English translation of Fatouville’s eight French and Italian scenes.

Author: John Ayrton Paris
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Languages : en
Pages : 596

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