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Author : Marco Beretta
Publisher : Giunti Editore
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : IND:30000054103365
Author : Françoise Waquet
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789608274
Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Franoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted a new lease of life by the Humanists and the Catholic Church, Latin was the form in which generations of schoolchildren were taught to read, millions of people worshipped, and an international community of scholars communicated with one another. It conveyed sacredness, but also obscenity; learning, as well as pedantry; science, but also trickery and mumbo-jumbo. Few individuals even among the clergy or the most learned scholars have ever managed to speak it with any degree of correctness or fluency, let alone elegance. Why, despite rationalist criticisms that Latin was inaccessible to the great majority of people, and inconvenient and time-consuming for the rest, did it maintain such a strong presence - some would say a tyranny - for so long?
Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0198506902
This lavishly illustrated book provides an unusually accessible approach to geometry by placing it in historical context. With concise discussions and carefully chosen illustrations the author brings the material to life by showing what problems motivated early geometers throughout the world. Geometry Civilized covers classical plane geometry, emphasizing the methods of Euclid but also drawing on advances made in China and India. It includes a wide range of problems, solutions, and illustrations, as well as a chapter on trigonometry, and prepares its readers for the study of solid geometry and conic sections.
Author : Françoise Waquet
Publisher : Verso
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1859846157
"Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a work of reference and a piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Francoise Waquet
Publisher : Verso
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-12-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1859844022
A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world.
Author : Marco Beretta,Alessandro Tosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123282043
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015081512306
Author : Linnean Society of London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Botany
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123115854
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UOM:39015057948039
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131556172
Author : Ileana Chinnici
Publisher : Sillabe
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105115367554
Author : Bernhard Fritscher,Fergus Henderson
Publisher : Institut Fur Geschichte Der Naturwissenschaften
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046482058
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Astronomy
ISBN : PRNC:32101045534169
Author : Neil deGrasse Tyson
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781250861498
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time—war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, and race—in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all. In a time when our political and cultural views feel more polarized than ever, Tyson provides a much-needed antidote to so much of what divides us, while making a passionate case for the twin chariots of enlightenment—a cosmic perspective and the rationality of science. After thinking deeply about how science sees the world and about Earth as a planet, the human brain has the capacity to reset and recalibrates life’s priorities, shaping the actions we might take in response. No outlook on culture, society, or civilization remains untouched. With crystalline prose, Starry Messenger walks us through the scientific palette that sees and paints the world differently. From insights on resolving global conflict to reminders of how precious it is to be alive, Tyson reveals, with warmth and eloquence, an array of brilliant and beautiful truths that apply to us all, informed and enlightened by knowledge of our place in the universe.