A Cosmography Of Man

Author : Theresa Schön
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110613674

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A Cosmography of Man by Theresa Schön Pdf

Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily on the representation of contemporary manners. In shaping such behavioural images, the authors made use of the satirical character sketch. Their character sketches (re)create social interactions between fictionalised representatives of moral types of men and women located in contemporary London. This study examines how Addison and Steele employed the character sketch to create a ‘cosmography’ of (wo)man by actively engaging with the observational approaches of contemporary naturalists. Addison and Steele adapted distinctly empirical methods (e.g. induction and deduction, note taking, repeated and collective observation) and appropriated the (medico-legal) case study to communicate and disseminate socio-moral knowledge. At the same time, the character sketch served them as a means to establish a taxonomic order of the socio-moral knowledge conveyed in the texts. The study sheds new light on the literary techniques and the methodological frameworks of two journals essentially associated with the British - and the European - Enlightenment.

Author : Raymond Arthur Lyttleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : LCCN:61004827

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Man's View of the Universe by Raymond Arthur Lyttleton Pdf

Author : Leo Africanus
Publisher : Random House
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141998824

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The Cosmography and Geography of Africa by Leo Africanus Pdf

The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa. The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals. Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it. Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff

Author : Semih S. Umar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0533084067

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Man and the Universe by Semih S. Umar Pdf

Author : Richard L. Thompson
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120819543

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Vedic Cosmography and Astronomy by Richard L. Thompson Pdf

The mysteries of the fifth Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam have long puzzled students of Vedic cosmography and astronomy. Confronted with a description of the universe that seems much at variance with the information provided by our senses and standard astronomical calculations, foreign observers and even Indian commentators from the middle ages up to the present have concluded that the Bhagavatam`s account elaborated in other Puranas must be mythological. On the other hand the same persons have been much impressed with vedic astronomical treatises the jyotisasastras which provide remarkably accurate measurements of the solar system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : ONB:+Z175548704

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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10400888

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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge Pdf

Author : Aharon R. E. Agus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110816037

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Hermeneutic Biography in Rabbinic Midrash by Aharon R. E. Agus Pdf

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

Author : Giuseppe De Luca,Gaetano Sabatini
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9788856848625

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Growing in the Shadow of an Empire by Giuseppe De Luca,Gaetano Sabatini Pdf

Author : Ellen K. Levy,Charissa N. Terranova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350191129

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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture by Ellen K. Levy,Charissa N. Terranova Pdf

Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration of how physical forces propel and shape living and nonliving forms, essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to architecture, design, and biology. Contributors explore how translations are made from the discipline of biology to the cultural arena. They reflect on how Thompson's study relates to the current sciences of epigenesis, self-organization, biological complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis. Cross-disciplinary contributors explore the wide-ranging aesthetic ramifications of these sciences. A timeline links the history of evolutionary theory with cultural achievements, providing the reader with a valuable resource.

Author : Germano Maifreda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317131977

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From Oikonomia to Political Economy by Germano Maifreda Pdf

Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in new scientific ideas and theories. Whilst the study of this 'Scientific Revolution' has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area; that of economics. Through an interrogation of the relationship between economic and scientific developments in early-modern Western Europe, this book demonstrates how a new economic epistemology appeared that was to have profound consequences both at the time, and for subsequent generations. Dr Maifreda argues that the new attention shown by astronomers, physicians, aristocrats, men of letters, travellers and merchants for the functioning of economic life and markets, laid the ground for a radically new discourse that envisioned 'economics' as an independent field of scientific knowledge. By researching the historical context surrounding this new field of knowledge, he identifies three key factors that contributed to the cultural construction of economics. Firstly, Italian Humanism and Renaissance, which promoted new subjects, methods and quantitative analysis. Secondly, European overseas expansion, which revealed the existence of economic cultures previously unknown to Europeans. Thirdly factor identified is the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century crisis of traditional epistemologies, which increasingly valued empirical scientific knowledge over long-held beliefs. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, the book illuminates new economic sensibilities within a range of established and more novel scientific disciplines (including astronomy, physics, ethnography, geology, and chemistry/alchemy). By tracing these developments within the wider social and cultural fields of everyday commercial life, the study offers a fascinating insight into the relationship between economic knowledge and science during the early-modern period.

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822005860655

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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Man. Commonwealth. Christian commonwealth. Kingdom of darkness by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Author : John Lobell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000626933

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The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture by John Lobell Pdf

Flourishing from 1951 to 1965, the Philadelphia School was an architectural golden age that saw a unique convergence of city, practice, and education, all in renewal. And it was a bringing together of architecture, city and regional planning, and landscape architecture education under the leadership of Dean G. Holmes Perkins. During that time at the architecture school at the University of Pennsylvania (known as the Graduate School of Fine Arts or GSFA), Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi were transforming modern architecture; Romaldo Giurgola was applying continental philosophy to architectural theory; Robert Le Ricolais was building experimental structures; Ian McHarg was questioning Western civilization and advancing urban and regional ecology; Herbert Gans was moving into Levittown; and Denise Scott Brown was forging a syncretism of European and American planning theory and discovering popular culture. And in the city, Edmund Bacon was directing the most active city planning commission in the country. This book describes the history of the school, the transformation of the city of Philadelphia, and the philosophy of the Philadelphia School in the context of other movements of the time, and looks at what the Philadelphia School has to offer to architecture today and in the future, all from the point of view of a student who was there.

Author : Aethicus Ister,Michael W. Herren,Aethicus (Ister)
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Classical geography
ISBN : 2503535771

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The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister by Aethicus Ister,Michael W. Herren,Aethicus (Ister) Pdf

One of the most skilful forgeries of the Middle Ages, the Cosmography of Aethicus Ister has puzzled scholars for over 150 years, not least because of its challenging Latinity. Written at a western centre in the first part of the eighth century, the work purports to be a heavily censored epitome made by St. Jerome of a cosmography by an Istrian philosopher named Aethicus. This writer, who is otherwise unknown, describes a flat-earth universe resembling that of Cosmas Indicopleustes, then gives an eye-witness account of his travels to the isles of the gentiles in the North and East. There he encounters not only savage races, but also monsters, Amazons, and other figures of mythology. Alexander the Great also figures prominently by immuring the unclean races, who will escape to ravage the world at the coming of the Anti-Christ. Not all is fiction. The author's observations on volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis will interest the scientific reader. The last part deals in coded fashion with contemporary events in the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans, and may provide a clue to the author's origins. The present volume offers a new critical text, the first translation, and a detailed commentary covering every aspect of the work.

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English language
ISBN : UIUC:30112073372747

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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. C-Comm (1893) by James Augustus Henry Murray Pdf