Patriot-improvers

When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. In this “first systematic attempt to collect and ...

Continuations of the old french perceval of chrétien de troyes. 4

Vol. III, Part 2 contains the text of the Short Redaction of the First Continuation of Chretien’s “Perceval” according to MSS L, A, and R. It is apparent that, though the principal texts are of almost the same length, they differ quite considerably in details of expression. On the other hand, the...

Thomas jefferson’s garden book, 1766-1824

This “Garden Book” contains the most varied entries of all Thomas Jefferson’s memorandum books. The book that began as a diary of the garden became a written repository for numerous interests of Jefferson. The entries range from contracts with overseers, plans for building roads and fish ponds, a...

Style, classification and ethnicity

This is a print on demand publication. Cognitive psychologists are now suggesting that there are two kinds of features which people use in the recognition & classifiation process.The first are very basic properties which have been studied by experimental psychologists. The second are object-s...

The colonial virginia satirist

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Privy council and the spirit of elizabethan economic management, 1558-1603

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Imperial library in southern sung china. 1127-1279

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Mappae clavicula

This is a print on demand publication. An annotated translation based on a collation of the Selestat and Phillipps-Corning (PC) manuscripts, with a reproduction of the two manuscripts. Contents: (1) The manuscripts and their background: The Selestat manuscript; The PC manuscript; Sir Thomas Phill...

Ethnogeographical study of cochineal and the opuntia cactus

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Organized business and the myth of the china market

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Levi ben gerson's prognostication for the conjunction of 1345

This is a print on demand Publication. Levi ben Gerson (LBG) (1288-1344), was a prominent scholar in Orange (France) who wrote in Hebrew on biblical exegesis, philosophy, theology, & the sciences. Although Levi referred to astrology in his main work, “Milhamot Adonai” (”The Wars of the Lord”)...

Changing africa

This is a print on demand Publication. Scholars have been curious about the development of arts & letters in Africa since the last European colonies on that continent attained independence in 1975. On Cape Verde, the Portuguese entered into close relations with Black Africa, represented by en...

Magna charta for america

By 1750 Great Britain presided over an extensive Amer. empire of 24 separate colonies stretching from Barbados to Newfoundland. These colonies had played a crucial role in Britain’s transformation into a wealthy & powerful state, & Britain endeavored to protect & extend its Amer. domi...

Incarnations of the aztec supernatural: the image of huitzilopochtli in mexico and europe

This publication discusses various iconographic representations of Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Aztecs and their capital city, in both Mexico and Europe. Weaving various preconquest and postconquest sources, this book deftly analyzes representations in native contexts and explores how E...

Coppers of the northwest coast indians

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) The Use & Meaning of Coppers in the Period Between 1860-1920; Coppers; Environmental Conditions; Cosmologies; Social Structure; Meanings Attributed to Copper; The Roles of Coppers in Each of the 5 Societies; Comparison of Coppers & Thei...

Towards a rational historiography

This is a print on demand publication. Gossman maintains that underlying the argument that historiography cannot be subsumed under a poetics or a rhetoric (in the sense of a system of purely linguistic or literary tropes) is a larger claim, namely that a wide range of activities, from literary cr...

El inga

This is a print on demand publication. In Jan. 1960, author Mayer-Oakes & Robert Bell began a program of field archeology in Ecuador, with their relocation & test pit excavation at the El Inga site near Quito. Initial studies of the surface collection convinced the two investigators that ...

Maya city planning and the calendar

This is a print on demand publication. Why do people orient buildings the way they do? That the depiction of the cardinal directions of space had something to do with events taking place in the sky is suggested by cosmological diagrams derived from the civilizations of ancient Mexico. Contents: ...

In defense of the earth’s centrality and immobility

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction; (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology; (III) The Earth’s Centrality: The Three Centers; & The Terraqueous Sphere; (IV) The Earth’s Immobility: (A) Physical Arguments Based...

Counts of falkenstein

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Karl Schmid & His Critics: The Formation of Patrilineal Lineages; Georges Duby; Karl Leyser; Friedrich Prinz; Karl Bosl; Wilhelm Stormer; Patrilineal Lineages & the Investiture Conflict; The “Codex Falkensteinensis”; (II) The Ancestors ...

Henry c. carey and american economic development

This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find book. The development of economic thought of the mid-19th century is essentially a history of classical English political economy. The tenets of this school were communicated to the U.S., where the writings of Smith, Malthus, Mill, and Ricardo w...

Eucharistic presence and conversion in late thirteenth-century franciscan thought

Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ’s bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ’s body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 1...

At the sign of the compass and quadrant

This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A significant although little known figure in the history of early American science is Anthony Lamb, a maker of mathematical instruments who was active in NY from 1730 to 1784. He had been trained in a skill which was rare in his ti...

Journals of christian daniel claus and conrad weiser

In Feb. 1750, Thomas Lee, the Pres. of the Virginia Council, wrote a letter to Conrad Weiser, his good friend. Lee asked Weiser, the experienced and influential Indian agent, to be a part of his proposal to unite the English colonies with the Six Nations. After discussing Lee’s plan wi...

Ptolemy's first commentator

This is a print on demand publication. The early recognition of Ptolemy’s major astronomical writings, the “Almagest” (or “Syntaxis”) & the later “Handy Tables,” has become a commonplace in histories of ancient astronomy. But the crucial century & a half between Ptolemy & the commenta...

Virtuous pagan in middle english literature

For pious Christians of every age, the question of ultimate concern has been salvation: What is necessary to ensure the soul’s eternal bliss? During the Middle Ages, within the Church itself, the guidelines were clear: baptism, reception of the sacraments, an attempt to put into practice the teac...

Medical licensing and learning in fourteenth-century valencia

In the 14th century, the kings of Aragon in NE Spain governed threee countries that were politically & linguistically distinct, & were linked only by the rule of their common monarch: the principality of Catalonia, the kingdom of Aragon, & the kingdom of Valencia. These realms--which ...

Raw capital

Caring for patients from different cultures

This extensively updated edition of a definitive text provides healthcare workers with a solid frame of reference for understanding—and successfully addressing—cultural differencesHealthcare workers in the American medical system may find that patients from different cultures bring unfamiliar exp...

Rise to world power

This selection of letters derives from the microfilm ed. of the Whitelaw Reid Papers on deposit at the Library of Congress. The editors used four broad criteria for selecting letters: (1) those that illuminate the conduct & formation of international relations; (2) those that reveal Reid’s ow...

The discoveries of antarctica within the american sector, as revealed by mamerican philosophical society and documents

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Diary of a journey through the carolinas, georgia, and florida, from july 1, 1765, to april 10, 1766

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Travels in georgia and florida

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Early history of the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters and of pangenesis

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The inheritance of acquired characters: From the beginning to the 16th century; 16th century records; 17th century records; 18th century records; Some 19th century records to the time of Charles Darwin; (II) Pangenesis: Records fr...

A stranger in the land: gershom bulkeley of connecticut

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Infectious anemias due to bartonella and related red cell parasites

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Kwakiutl grammar

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Monguors of the kansu-tibetan border. part ii

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History of ideas about the prolongation of life

This study aims to trace the origin and evolution of the idea of prolongevity: the belief that it is possible and desirable to extend significantly the length of life by human action. Primary attention is given to developments before the end of the 18th century. There are, however, numerous refer...

Proclaim liberty

A bishop and his world before the gregorian reform

Contents: Part One: (I) The Background; (II) The World of the Family: Genealogical Chart A: The Family of Bishop Hubert of Angers: Genealogical Chart B: The Family of Fulcherius the Rich of Vendome; Genealogical Chart C: The Family of Viscount Fulcradus of Vendome; Genealogical Chart D: The Famil...

Plant colonization studies on black wastes from [anthracite] mining in pennsylvania

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Africans and europeans in west africa

The town of Elmina was the most important trading center on the Gold Coat (GC) of W. Africa for at least 2 cent. Elminans engaged in commercial transactions which linked the GC with 3 very different trade networks. Contents: (I) The Akan on the GC; (II) Europeans on the GC: The Portuguese, 1471-1...

Saros cycle dates and related babylonian astronomical texts

These texts are probably from Babylon, although their exact provenance is unknown. All concern luni-solar phenomena with the exception of a text on the last visibility of Mercury, which is found on one side of a tablet whose other side deals with lunar eclipse magnitudes & longitudes. The tex...

What’s a naturalist?

Write your own Book of Nature in this Naturalists’ Journal; a guide to an exhibit held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. Take your own naturalist’s expedition inside the museum . . . & outside! Pickled fish, dried plants, colorful drawings, old books in glass cases: Many of the things in this n...

Orpheus philologus

This is print on demand publication. Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential and successful “Romische Geschichte” (1854), he was the object of the passionate and enduring hatred of an obscure Swiss philologist in the provincial ...

Politics of law and order

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction: Bavaria in the Era of Revolution, 1918-1919; Part One: The “Einwohnerwehr” Movement in Bavaria: (I) The Organizational Development of the “Einwohnerwehr”: State or Private Control?; (II) The Political Evolution of the Bavarian “Einwon...

Alexander guchkov and the end of the russian empire

This is a print on demand publication. Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-1936) was one of the most engaging public personalities in the last years of the Russian Empire. This political biography of Guchkov, whose career in the national limelight -- in the legislature (the State Duma), in the war-...

First carlisle

A study of James Hay, a little known 17th-cent. Scotsman who was a key figure in the early Stuart era. Unlike the vast majority of Scots who entered England with James I, Hay absorbed the culture of England and tried to become a genuine part of it, in order to play an important role for his adopt...

Settling the mind, settling the land

Hunch

An examination of scientific controversies in which challenging the accepted position led to great intellectual rewardsThe word “hunch” has many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary; this book’s title references this one: “A premonition or intuitive feeling that something . . . may be the...