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Author : John Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Naturalists
ISBN : UOM:39015031083598
"This book ... is the outcome of a rediscovery in the Bodleian library of a number of letters of John Ray ... which form a necessary supplement to the volume of The correspondence," edited by Edwin Lankester, 1848.
Author : Charles E. Raven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521310830
Charles Raven's biography of the seventeenth-century English naturalist John Ray is one of the great works in the history of science. The author's command of Latin (the language in which all Ray's biological works were written) and his enthusiasm for natural history enabled him to interpret superbly to the modern reader John Ray's remarkable scientific work and to rescue Ray's reputation from undeserved neglect. Raven reveals the unique influence Ray had on the development of modern science and in particular explains sympathetically the key role of Ray's last, most popular and most influential work, The Wisdom of God, which was the forerunner of the great 'Darwinian' controversies between science and religion in the nineteenth century.
Author : John Ray,Professor of Egyptology John Ray
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230349227
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1848 edition. Excerpt: ... Dr. Vaughajj and Dr. Wood to Mr. Ray. Sir, --I shall add a few observations concerning the Tithymalus hibernicus Ascyron supinum villosum paluslre, &c. [Euphorbia hiberna, Linn.] I ordered an Irish chirurgeon to make a decoction of the root and a few leaves of the Tithymalus hibernicus, but its exhalations were so very acrimonious, that, he holding his head two or three times over the decoction to see how it proceeded, his face and hands were blistered most sadly. Some of the Irish use this root boiled in milk as a cathartic, whose direful effect there was a melancholy instance of, about three years ago, eight miles hence. A brisk young Irishman, who complaining of a dull pain in his left side, which I suppose was an inveterate obstruction of his spleen, a countryman quack of his gave him a dose of the above decoction, which occasioned a violent hypercatharsis, dreadful convulsions, and death before ten o'clock that night; but I believe that an extract might be prepared with the addition of spiritus vitrioli, which might be of excellent use in chronic distempers of robust bodies. I was by your 'Historia Plantarum, ' induced to make an extract of Trifolium paludosum [Menyanthes trifoliata, Linn.], which I found an excellent remedy in vomitu, imbecillitate ventriculi, cruditatibus acidis, scorbuto, chlorosi, and question not but that it is an extraordinary universal deobstruent: I have used several pounds of it this last year, and shall make greater use of it for the future. I have also used it as an injection (in sordid ulcers) dissolved in fountain water, and think it has as good mundifying effects as tincture of myrrh and aloes; but then you must dissolve as much of the extract as the water will well contain. I much wonder that the..
Author : John Ray,Professor of Egyptology John Ray
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0267554672
Excerpt from The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections From the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum Only that part of the correspondence published in the Philosophical Letters' which was written by Ray, or addressed to him, has been included in the present volume. The Preface of Dr. Derham to that work, which it has been thought desirable to reprint, alludes to some of the correspondence which has been omitted, on account of its not relating immediately to John Ray. 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 : Anna Marie Roos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004263321
Winner of the 2017 John Thackray Medal awarded by the Society for the History of Natural History, U.K. Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Lister corresponded extensively with explorers and other virtuosi such as John Ray, who provided him with specimens, observations, and locality records from Jamaica, America, Barbados, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and his native England. This volume of ca. 400 letters (one of three), consists of Lister’s correspondence dated from 1662 to 1677, including his time as a Cambridge Fellow, his medical training in Montpellier, and his years as a practicing physician in York.
Author : Dmitri Levitin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316395547
Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern Europe.
Author : Rob Iliffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199995363
After Sir Isaac Newton revealed his discovery that white light was compounded of more basic colored rays, he was hailed as a genius and became an instant international celebrity. An interdisciplinary enthusiast and intellectual giant in a number of disciplines, Newton published revolutionary, field-defining works that reached across the scientific spectrum, including the Principia Mathematica and Opticks. His renown opened doors for him throughout his career, ushering him into prestigious positions at Cambridge, the Royal Mint, and the Royal Society. And yet, alongside his public success, Newton harbored religious beliefs that set him at odds with law and society, and, if revealed, threatened not just his livelihood but his life. Religion and faith dominated much of Newton's life and work. His papers, never made available to the public, were filled with biblical speculation and timelines along with passages that excoriated the early Church fathers. Indeed, his radical theological leanings rendered him a heretic, according to the doctrines of the Anglican Church. Newton believed that the central concept of the Trinity was a diabolical fraud and loathed the idolatry, cruelty, and persecution that had come to define religion in his time. Instead, he proposed a "simple Christianity"--a faith that would center on a few core beliefs and celebrate diversity in religious thinking and practice. An utterly original but obsessively private religious thinker, Newton composed several of the most daring works of any writer of the early modern period, works which he and his inheritors suppressed and which have been largely inaccessible for centuries. In Priest of Nature, historian Rob Iliffe introduces readers to Newton the religious animal, deepening our understanding of the relationship between faith and science at a formative moment in history and thought. Previous scholars and biographers have generally underestimated the range and complexity of Newton's religious writings, but Iliffe shows how wide-ranging his observations and interests were, spanning the entirety of Christian history from Creation to the Apocalypse. Iliffe's book allows readers to fully engage in the theological discussion that dominated Newton's age. A vibrant biography of one of history's towering scientific figures, Priest of Nature is the definitive work on the spiritual views of the man who fundamentally changed how we look at the universe.
Author : Ken Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351953597
The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.
Author : Martin J.S. Rudwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226148984
"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."—Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology "Rudwick has not merely written the first book-length history of palaeontology in the English language; he has written a very intelligent one. . . . His accounts of sources are rounded and organic: he treats the structure of arguments as Cuvier handled fossil bones."—Roy S. Porter, History of Science
Author : Kaspar von Greyerz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192679475
Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward the recognition of God as Creator and to demonstrate the compatibility of the biblical record with the new science. It was a crucial, albeit often underestimated element in the intellectual as well as socio-cultural establishment of the new science in western and central Europe beginning in the mid-seventeenth century. The importance of physico-theology in enhancing the acceptance of the new science among a broad educated public cannot be underestimated. Unfortunately, this insight has not yet received much attention in the history of early modern science, chiefly because the history of physico-theology tends to highlight the activities of virtuosi rather than well-known scientists. A contribution to the history of knowledge, this is the first monograph in English on physico-theology on the European scale. It concentrates on two genres, the argument from design, and the palaeontological argument regarding the role of the Deluge in the formation of fossils. It does so without neglecting practice (correspondence and collecting). It pays considerable attention to the historical context, above all to the new image of God as a wise, benevolent, rather than unpredictable being, which provided the practitioners of physico-theology (including clergy, physicians, lawyers, and philologists) with a new and powerful argument. It draws attention to the predominantly Protestant nature of the phenomenon and looks at the longevity of the argument from design in Britain and the Netherlands, where its demise came about as late as the first half of the nineteenth century.
Author : Ohad Nachtomy,Justin E. H. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199987313
The present volume advances a recent historiographical turn towards the intersection of early modern philosophy and the life sciences by bringing together many of its leading scholars to present the contributions of important but often neglected figures, such as Ralph Cudworth, Nehemiah Grew, Francis Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Georg Ernst Stahl, Juan Gallego de la Serna, Nicholas Hartsoeker, Henry More, as well as more familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant. The contributions to this volume are organized in accordance with the particular problems that living beings and living nature posed for early modern philosophy: the problem of life in general, whether it constitutes something ontologically distinct at all, or whether it can ultimately be exhaustively comprehended "in the same manner as the rest"; the problem of the structure of living beings, by which we understand not just bare anatomy but also physiological processes such as irritability, motion, digestion, and so on; the problem of generation, which might be included alongside digestion and other vital processes, were it not for the fact that it presented such an exceptional riddle to philosophers since antiquity, namely, the riddle of coming-into-being out of -- apparent or real -- non-being; and, finally, the problem of natural order.
Author : M. M. Slaughter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521244770
Examines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication.
Author : John Considine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351870252
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the emergence of the first free standing monolingual English dictionaries; the making of new kinds of English lexicons that investigated dialect or etymology or that keyed English to invented 'philosophical' languages; and the massive expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only placed English alongside the European vernaculars but also handled the languages of the new world. The essays in this volume discuss not only the internal history of lexicography but also its wider relationships with culture and society.
Author : Alexander Wragge-Morley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226680866
The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it really was. In Aesthetic Science, Alexander Wragge-Morley challenges this interpretation by arguing that key figures such as John Ray, Robert Boyle, Nehemiah Grew, Robert Hooke, and Thomas Willis saw the study of nature as an aesthetic project. To show how early modern naturalists conceived of the interplay between sensory experience and the production of knowledge, Aesthetic Science explores natural-historical and anatomical works of the Royal Society through the lens of the aesthetic. By underscoring the importance of subjective experience to the communication of knowledge about nature, Wragge-Morley offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of scientific representation in the early modern period and brings to light the hitherto overlooked role of aesthetic experience in the history of the empirical sciences.
Author : Mary Gribbin,John Gribbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Botanists
ISBN : 9780192807182
Carl Linnaeus - Joseph Banks - Francis Masson - Carl Peter Thunberg - David Douglas - William Lobb - Thomas Lobb - Robert Fortune - Marianne North - Richard Spruce - Joseph Dalton Hooker.
