Author: Noël Antoine Pluche
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The History of the Heavens, Considered According to the Notions of the Poets and Philosophers, Compared with the Doctrines of Moses
Author: Noël Antoine Pluche
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The History of the Heavens
Author: Noël Antoine Pluche
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Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin
Author: Martin Priestman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317020987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times, Martin Priestman situates Darwin’s three major poems - The Loves of the Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803) - and Darwin himself within a large, polymathic late-Enlightenment network of other scientists, writers, thinkers and social movers and shakers. Interpreting Darwin’s poetry in terms of Darwin’s broader sense of the poetic text as a material space, he posits a significant shift from the Enlightenment’s emphases on conceptual spaces to the Romantic period’s emphases on historical time. He shows how Darwin’s poetry illuminates his stance toward all the major physical sciences and his well-formulated theories of evolution and materially based psychology. Priestman’s study also offers the first substantial accounts of Darwin’s mythological theories and their links to Enlightenment Rosicrucianism and Freemansonry, and of the reading of history that emerges from the fragment-poem The Progress of Society, a first-ever printed edition of which is included in an appendix. Ultimately, Priestman’s book offers readers a sustained account of Darwin’s polymathic Enlightenment worldview and cognate poetics in a period when texts are too often judged by their adherence to a retrospectively constructed ’Romanticism’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317020987
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times, Martin Priestman situates Darwin’s three major poems - The Loves of the Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803) - and Darwin himself within a large, polymathic late-Enlightenment network of other scientists, writers, thinkers and social movers and shakers. Interpreting Darwin’s poetry in terms of Darwin’s broader sense of the poetic text as a material space, he posits a significant shift from the Enlightenment’s emphases on conceptual spaces to the Romantic period’s emphases on historical time. He shows how Darwin’s poetry illuminates his stance toward all the major physical sciences and his well-formulated theories of evolution and materially based psychology. Priestman’s study also offers the first substantial accounts of Darwin’s mythological theories and their links to Enlightenment Rosicrucianism and Freemansonry, and of the reading of history that emerges from the fragment-poem The Progress of Society, a first-ever printed edition of which is included in an appendix. Ultimately, Priestman’s book offers readers a sustained account of Darwin’s polymathic Enlightenment worldview and cognate poetics in a period when texts are too often judged by their adherence to a retrospectively constructed ’Romanticism’.
Kant and the Transformation of Natural History
Author: Andrew Cooper
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192696920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which explanations are required, sought, and justified in natural science. Through addressing a wide range of Kant's works, Cooper challenges the claim that Kant's theory of science denies a developmental conception of nature and argues instead that it establishes a method by which natural historians can genuinely dispute historical claims and potentially come to consensus. This method, Cooper argues, can be used to expose serious flaws in Kant's own historical reasoning, including the formation and defence of his racist views. The book will be valuable to philosophers seeking to discern both the power and limitations of Kant's theory of science, and to historians of science working on the fractured landscape of eighteenth-century Newtonianism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192696920
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to the frame in which explanations are required, sought, and justified in natural science. Through addressing a wide range of Kant's works, Cooper challenges the claim that Kant's theory of science denies a developmental conception of nature and argues instead that it establishes a method by which natural historians can genuinely dispute historical claims and potentially come to consensus. This method, Cooper argues, can be used to expose serious flaws in Kant's own historical reasoning, including the formation and defence of his racist views. The book will be valuable to philosophers seeking to discern both the power and limitations of Kant's theory of science, and to historians of science working on the fractured landscape of eighteenth-century Newtonianism.
Annals of the Grand Lodge of Iowa
Author: Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Catalogue of the Library
Author: Freemasons. Iowa. Grand Lodge
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Catalogue of the Library of the Grand Lodge of Iowa, June I, 1873
Author: Iowa Masonic Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Education in the Bible
Author: Marion Ernest Cady
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Dedications
Author: Mary Elizabeth Brown
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Category : Anniversaries
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Category : Anniversaries
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.