Author: William Beattie
Publisher:
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Category : Danube River
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Andrew Beattie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199768358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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A detailed history of the Danube river.

Author: Permanent Court of International Justice
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: Henry Hajnal
Publisher: Hague : M. Nijhoff
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Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: Nick Thorpe
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300181655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The author takes us on an unexpected journey "up" the Danube, where we encounter a remarkable and unfamiliar world

Author: Great Britain
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1194

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Author: Francis Davis Millet
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Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: David Aubin
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 082239250X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; this collection surveys them as a coherent whole. Broadening the focus beyond the solitary astronomer at his telescope, it illuminates the observatory’s importance to technological, military, political, and colonial undertakings, as well as in advancing and popularizing the mathematical, physical, and cosmological sciences. The contributors examine “observatory techniques” developed and used not only in connection with observatories but also by instrument makers in their workshops, navy officers on ships, civil engineers in the field, and many others. These techniques included the calibration and coordination of precision instruments for making observations and taking measurements; methods of data acquisition and tabulation; and the production of maps, drawings, and photographs, as well as numerical, textual, and visual representations of the heavens and the earth. They also encompassed the social management of personnel within observatories, the coordination of international scientific collaborations, and interactions with dignitaries and the public. The state observatory occupied a particularly privileged place in the life of the city. With their imposing architecture and ancient traditions, state observatories served representative purposes for their patrons, whether as symbols of a monarch’s enlightened power, a nation’s industrial and scientific excellence, or republican progressive values. Focusing on observatory techniques in settings from Berlin, London, Paris, and Rome to Australia, Russia, Thailand, and the United States, The Heavens on Earth is a major contribution to the history of science. Contributors: David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, Guy Boistel, Theresa Levitt, Massimo Mazzotti, Ole Molvig, Simon Schaffer, Martina Schiavon , H. Otto Sibum, Richard Staley, John Tresch, Simon Werrett, Sven Widmalm

Author: Poultney Bigelow
Publisher:
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Category : Canoes and canoeing
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Claudio Magris
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446433803
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.