Author: James Thomson
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Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Author: James Thomson
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: James Thomson
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Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Sir Isaac Newton’s publications, and those he inspired, were among the most significant works published during the long eighteenth century in Britain. Concepts such as attraction and extrapolation—detailed in his landmark monograph Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica—found their way into both scientific and cultural discourse. Understanding the trajectory of Newton’s diverse critical and popular reception in print demands consideration of how his ideas were disseminated in a marketplace comprised of readers with varying levels of interest and expertise. Reading Popular Newtonianism focuses on the reception of Newton's works in a context framed by authorship, print, editorial practices, and reading. Informed by sustained archival work and multiple critical approaches, Laura Miller asserts that print facilitated the mainstreaming of Newton's ideas. In addition to his reading habits and his manipulation of print conventions in the Principia, Miller analyzes the implied readership of various "popularizations" as well as readers traced through the New York Society Library's borrowing records. Many of the works considered—including encyclopedias, poems, and a work written "for the ladies"—are not scientifically innovative but are essential to eighteenth-century readers’ engagement with Newtonian ideas. Revising the timeline in which Newton’s scientific ideas entered eighteenth-century culture, Reading Popular Newtonianism is the first book to interrogate at length the importance of print to his consequential career.

Author: James Thomson
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Category : Seasons
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN: 0198857799
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

Author: David Fairer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317892887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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In recent years the canon of eighteenth-century poetry has greatly expanded to include women poets, labouring-class and provincial poets, and many previously unheard voices. Fairer’s book takes up the challenge this ought to pose to our traditional understanding of the subject. This book seeks to question some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. In doing so Fairer offers a fresh and detailed look at a wide range of material.

Author: Ann Stewart Balakier
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773490574
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Greenwich connection with Newtonian science is exemplified by Sir Christopher Wren's spatially-extended, open-center design for the Greenwich Naval Hospital complex, the site of the Royal Observatory, and his application of Newtonian "conics" to the site.

Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
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Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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