Author: Thomas Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Conchologist's Text Book
Author: Thomas Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Elements of Conchology, Or, An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells
Author: Emanuel Mendes da Costa
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Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Conchologist's Text-Book, Embracing the Arrangements of Lamarck and Linnaeus, with a Glossary of Technical Terms
Author: Thomas Brown
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368770314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368770314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.
American Conchology
Author: Thomas Say
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Conchologist's First Book
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
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Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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ISBN:
Category : Mollusks
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Conchophilia
Author: Marisa Anne Bass
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215766
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215766
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--
The Book Of Shells (Annotated)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677901678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This is the classic scientific book of shells and shell classifications. Updated for Ebook consumption and perfect for the young on the go field scientist or hobbyist.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781677901678
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This is the classic scientific book of shells and shell classifications. Updated for Ebook consumption and perfect for the young on the go field scientist or hobbyist.
A conchological iconography
Author: Guido T. Poppe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783925919275
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9783925919275
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
Author: John Tresch
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award Winner of the 2021 Quinn Award An innovative biography of Edgar Allan Poe—highlighting his fascination and feuds with science. Decade after decade, Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the most popular American writers. He is beloved around the world for his pioneering detective fiction, tales of horror, and haunting, atmospheric verse. But what if there was another side to the man who wrote “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher”? In The Reason for the Darkness of the Night, John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe’s obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. Even as he composed dazzling works of fiction, he remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era’s most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues. As one newspaper put it, “Mr. Poe is not merely a man of science—not merely a poet—not merely a man of letters. He is all combined; and perhaps he is something more.” Taking us through his early training in mathematics and engineering at West Point and the tumultuous years that followed, Tresch shows that Poe lived, thought, and suffered surrounded by science—and that many of his most renowned and imaginative works can best be understood in its company. He cast doubt on perceived certainties even as he hungered for knowledge, and at the end of his life delivered a mind-bending lecture on the origins of the universe that would win the admiration of twentieth-century physicists. Pursuing extraordinary conjectures and a unique aesthetic vision, he remained a figure of explosive contradiction: he gleefully exposed the hoaxes of the era’s scientific fraudsters even as he perpetrated hoaxes himself. Tracing Poe’s hard and brilliant journey, The Reason for the Darkness of the Night is an essential new portrait of a writer whose life is synonymous with mystery and imagination—and an entertaining, erudite tour of the world of American science just as it was beginning to come into its own.
British Conchology, Or an Account of the Mollusca which Now Inhabit the British Isles and the Surrounding Seas
Author: John Gwyn Jeffreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description