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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OXFORD:N10897982
Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520071711
Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631224262
This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical utility of modal realism is a good reason for believing that it is true.
Author : BERNARD DE. FONTENELLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033464228
Author : M. de Fontenelle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338109132
De Fontenelle was a seventeenth-century writer and astronomer. This is a translation of his very famous and influential work. The conversations of the title are between a knowledgeable man and a woman who has no knowledge of astronomy. The intention of the book was to enable women to learn about the planets and the possibility that life (even if not human life) might exist on other planets.
Author : Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : SCIENCE
ISBN : 1904799574
Author : Bernard de Fontenelle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0364798769
Excerpt from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Whenever I have entered into conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy, I-have always found that she had read Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds; au'd that his book had excited her. Curiosity on the subject. As it has been so much read already, it must continue to engage at tention: I therefore thought it would be useful to point out its faults; to add some observations, without which the reader would be led into error with respect to the vor tices; to make known the late discoveries; and to shew what numbers, before our author, had written on the plu rality of worlds. But I have made no alterations in the text; the reputation of Fontenelle renders 'him respectable, even in his mistakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OCLC:1105897985
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1715
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OXFORD:N10268384
Author : Nina Rattner Gelbart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520924109
This unorthodox biography explores the life of an extraordinary Enlightenment woman who, by sheer force of character, parlayed a skill in midwifery into a national institution. In 1759, in an effort to end infant mortality, Louis XV commissioned Madame Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray to travel throughout France teaching the art of childbirth to illiterate peasant women. For the next thirty years, this royal emissary taught in nearly forty cities and reached an estimated ten thousand students. She wrote a textbook and invented a life-sized obstetrical mannequin for her demonstrations. She contributed significantly to France's demographic upswing after 1760. Who was the woman, both the private self and the pseudonymous public celebrity? Nina Rattner Gelbart reconstructs Madame du Coudray's astonishing mission through extensive research in the hundreds of letters by, to, and about her in provincial archives throughout France. Tracing her subject's footsteps around the country, Gelbart chronicles du Coudray's battles with finance ministers, village matrons, local administrators, and recalcitrant physicians, her rises in power and falls from grace, and her death at the height of the Reign of Terror. At a deeper level, Gelbart recaptures du Coudray's interior journey as well, by questioning and dismantling the neat paper trail that the great midwife so carefully left behind. Delightfully written, this tale of a fascinating life at the end of the French Old Regime sheds new light on the histories of medicine, gender, society, politics, and culture.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : UVA:X001143196
Author : Curtis White
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781612192017
One of our most brilliant social critics—author of the bestselling The Middle Mind—presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions. With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah Lehrer, you’re likely to become a subject of ridicule if you wonder “Why is there something instead of nothing?” or “What is our purpose on earth?” Instead, at universities around the world, and in the general cultural milieu, we’re all being taught that science can resolve all questions without the help of philosophy, politics, or the humanities. In short, the rich philosophical debates of the 19th century have been nearly totally abandoned, argues critic Curtis White. An atheist himself, White nonetheless calls this new turn “scientism”—and fears what it will do to our culture if allowed to flourish without challenge. In fact, in “scientism” White sees a new religion with many unexamined assumptions. In this brilliant multi-part critique, he aims at a TED talk by a distinguished neuroscientist in which we are told that human thought is merely the product of our “connectome,” a map of neural connections in the brain that is yet to be fully understood. . . . He whips a widely respected physicist who argues that our new understanding of the origins of the universe obviates any philosophical inquiry . . . and ends with a learned defense of the tradition of Romanticism, which White believes our technology and science-obsessed world desperately needs to rediscover. It’s the only way, he argues, that we can see our world clearly. . . and change it.
Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199926695
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547582519
"Man's Place in the Universe" by Alfred Russel Wallace. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016665660
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