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Author : Agustín Udías
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031530081
Author : Gerrit L. Verschuur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Magnetism
ISBN : 1602561346
In Hidden Attraction Gerrit L. Verschuur traces the history of our fascination with magnetism, from the first discovery of magnets in Greece, to state-of-the-art theories that see magnetism as a basic force in the universe.
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135948443
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.-
Author : Roberto Buonanno
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319375571
In this fascinating book, the author traces the careers, ideas, discoveries, and inventions of two renowned scientists, Athanasius Kircher and Galileo Galilei, one a Jesuit, the other a sincere man of faith whose relations with the Jesuits deteriorated badly. The Author documents Kircher’s often intuitive work in many areas, including translating the hieroglyphs, developing sundials, and inventing the magic lantern, and explains how Kircher was a forerunner of Darwin in suggesting that animal species evolve. Galileo’s work on scales, telescopes, and sun spots is mapped and discussed, and care is taken to place his discoveries within their cultural environment. While Galileo is without doubt the “winner” in the comparison with Kircher, the latter achieved extraordinary insights by unconventional means. For all Galileo’s fine work, the author believes that scientists do need to regain the power of dreaming, vindicating Kirchner’s view.
Author : Daniel Stolzenberg,Stanford University. Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization, Baroque
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116273223
Author : Siegfried Zielinski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262740326
A quest to find something new by excavating the "deep time" of media's development—not by simply looking at new media's historic forerunners, but by connecting models, machines, technologies, and accidents that have until now remained separated. Deep Time of the Media takes us on an archaeological quest into the hidden layers of media development—dynamic moments of intense activity in media design and construction that have been largely ignored in the historical-media archaeological record. Siegfried Zielinski argues that the history of the media does not proceed predictably from primitive tools to complex machinery; in Deep Time of the Media, he illuminates turning points of media history—fractures in the predictable—that help us see the new in the old. Drawing on original source materials, Zielinski explores the technology of devices for hearing and seeing through two thousand years of cultural and technological history. He discovers the contributions of "dreamers and modelers" of media worlds, from the ancient Greek philosopher Empedocles and natural philosophers of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to Russian avant-gardists of the early twentieth century. "Media are spaces of action for constructed attempts to connect what is separated," Zielinski writes. He describes models and machines that make this connection: including a theater of mirrors in sixteenth-century Naples, an automaton for musical composition created by the seventeenth-century Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, and the eighteenth-century electrical tele-writing machine of Joseph Mazzolari, among others. Uncovering these moments in the media-archaeological record, Zielinski says, brings us into a new relationship with present-day moments; these discoveries in the "deep time" media history shed light on today's media landscape and may help us map our expedition to the media future.
Author : Conor Reilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:$B511398
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Germany
ISBN : 0500291748
Athanasius Kircher (1602-80) was acknowledged to be the most learned man of his age. This text studies the fascinating engravings with which he illustrated his ideas. These illustrations reveal his singular mind and the way he was drawn to mysticism and magic.
Author : J. Raymond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230316973
Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This interdisciplinary study looks at how humans conversed with angels in medieval and early modern Europe, and how they explained and represented these conversations.
Author : Yi-fu Tuan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : God
ISBN : LCCN:65135693
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1721
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : UCD:31175035133894
Author : W. Mayer,R.M. Clary,L.F. Azuela,T.S. Mota,S. Wołkowicz
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786202697
The study of the Earth’s origin, its composition, the processes that changed and shaped it over time and the fossils preserved in rocks, have occupied enquiring minds from ancient times. The contributions in this volume trace the history of ideas and the research of scholars in a wide range of geological disciplines that have paved the way to our present-day understanding and knowledge of the physical nature of our planet and the diversity of life that inhabited it. To mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO), the book features contributions that give insights into its establishment and progress. In other sections authors reflect on the value of studying the history of the geosciences and provide accounts of early investigations in fields as diverse as tectonics, volcanology, geomorphology, vertebrate palaeontology and petroleum geology. Other papers discuss the establishment of geological surveys, the contribution of women to geology and biographical sketches of noted scholars in various fields of geoscience.
Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : PSU:000009995307
Author : Anna Maria Jones,Rebecca N. Mitchell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821445877
Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an unprecedented explosion of visual print culture and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point, Drawing on the Victorians sets out to explore the relationship between Victorian graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored. In this collection, scholars from literary studies, cultural studies, and art history consider contemporary works—Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Moto Naoko’s Lady Victorian, and Edward Gorey’s Gashlycrumb Tinies, among others—alongside their antecedents, from Punch’s 1897 Jubilee issue to Alice in Wonderland and more. They build on previous work on neo-Victorianism to affirm that the past not only influences but converses with the present. Contributors: Christine Ferguson, Kate Flint, Anna Maria Jones, Linda K. Hughes, Heidi Kaufman, Brian Maidment, Rebecca N. Mitchell, Jennifer Phegley, Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Peter W. Sinnema, Jessica Straley
Author : Alfredo Dinis,Ricardo Barroso Batista
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 9726972825
