History of the portrait collection, independence national historical park

A catalog of the portraits in the Independence Nat. Historic Park collection. These portraits consist of 255 works, 109 of them by Charles Willson Peale. Many are likenesses of heroes of the Amer. Revolution and founders of Amer. gov't., statesmen, jurists, men of science, art and letters. The co...

Cavendish

Two gifted 18th-century Londoners, Lord Charles Cavendish and his preeminent son, the Honorable Henry Cavendish, were descendants of paired revolutions, one political and the other scientific. Scions of a powerful revolutionary family, they gave a highly original turn to their understanding of pu...

Fossil elephantoids

This is a print on demand publication. From 1975-1978, the Rift Valley Research Mission in Ethiopia recovered the most diverse collection of elephantoids known from a single area, from the Middle Awash Valley in the southwestern Afar Depression. This report describes in detail the elephantoids fr...

Images, power, and politics

The Assyrians have usually been charcterized as the strongmen of the ancient Near East, controlling their empire largely through military force, terror, and intimidatin. The new interpretation of Esarhaddon’s reign offered here, hwever, suggests that his success in dealing with conquered Babyloni...

The paris codex: decoding an astronomical ephemeris

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Induction and intuition in scientific thought

Why are most scientists indifferent to scientific methodology? The answer: ‘because what passes for scientific methodology is a misrepresentation of what scientists do.’ This book explores what is wrong with the traditional methodology of ‘inductive’ reasoning; the alternative scheme of reasoning...

Major political issues of the jacksonian period and the development of party loyalty in congress, 1830-1840

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Yearbook, american philosophical society (1998-1999)

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Choosing selection

Describes the hypothesis that Darwin’s “natural selection,” reformulated by R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and S. Wright in the light of Mendelian genetics, is the exclusive mechanism for biological evolution. During the 1930s, alternatives such as Lamarchism, macromutations, and orthogenesis were ...

Crime and aggression in changing ceylon

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Charles willson peale with patron and populace. a supplement to portraits and miniatures by charles willson peale

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Soviet hungarian republic and the paris peace conference

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Astral magic in babylonia

This is a print on demand publication. Author Erica Reiner collected the Near Eastern material for this book over many years of association with the “Chicago Assyrian Dictionary.” She culled her sources from such scientific texts as medicine, divination, & rituals, which are not usually inclu...

History of american ornithology before audubon

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Planetary, lunar, and solar positions, a.d. 2 to a.d. 1649, at five-day and ten-day intervals

These tables for A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649 are an extension, with some improvements, of earlier ones for 601 B.C. to A.D. 1. As before, they give the geocentric positions (tropic celestial longitudes & latitudes, i.e. with respect to the mean equinox of date), in units of 0 degrees.01 for the Sun &...

Princess and the patriot

In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia’s Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philo...

Architecture of the sanctuary of apollo hylates at kourion

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Pioneer stage of railroad electrification

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Realities of images

In Feb. 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a town of 600 people located in the Serra da Mattos in Brazil reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This w...

Historic philadelphia

Incorporating numerous articles on myriad Old Philadelphia institutions and landmarks, this valuable compendium provides a wealth of information on one of the most important cities in American history. Complete with historic illustrations and map references to locations of present and past buildi...

White dog sacrifice

In a search for Iroquoian ritual uses for the marine shell beads now called “wampum” the authors identified the White Dog Sacrifice (WDS) as a possible candidate. The WDS involved ceremonial sacrifice and subsequent cremation of one, or sometimes two “white” dogs to carry away the sins of native ...

Franz boas and w. e. b. du bois at atlanta university, 1906

The papers of William Shedrick Willis (1921-1983), housed at the APS, include his drafts of the manuscript “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” They contain the fascinating story of Franz Boas’s visit to Atlanta Univ. in 1906, and more, because Willis intended the work to be a book on Boas’s work in black ant...

Transactions of the american philosophical society, old series, vol 5, 1802

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809

Useful knowledge

Useful Knowledge: What will it be for the next millennium? In five symposia, members of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. asked this question in April 1999 at the Society’s Millennium Meet. Contents: (1) Math & Physical Sciences: The Laws of Nature; Our Concepts of the Cosmos, Progress, Prospects ...

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes

Deals with the history of eyeglasses from their invention in Italy ca. 1286 to the appearance of the telescope three cent. later. “By the end of the 16th cent. eyeglasses were as common in western and central Europe as desktop computers are in western developed countries today.” Eyeglasses served...

Painful labor of mr. elsyng

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James bowdoin and the patriot philosophers

A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, & the life & career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter & execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting &am...

Alexander von humboldt

Presents the 250 texts Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), known as the “father of environmentalism,” wrote in English, unabridged in their original formAlexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German geographer and naturalist, is well-known for his explorations of the Americas and of Russia, for his ...

Town of san felipe and colonial cacao economics

Contrary to the contention of the “dependentistas,” the cacao export-led economy of the 18th century province of Caracas did not behave as an enclave economy. An analysis of the quantitative data suggests that from its beginning in the 17th century to its boom in the 18th century, the caco econom...

English customs service, 1307-1343

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An unusual newly discovered archosaur from the upper triassic of virginia, u. s. a.

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Why the hindenburg had a smoking lounge

Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuityHow did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute to another tragedy in Chicago harbor three years later? How efficient are wild animals as inves...

Benjamin franklin on the art of eating

This limited special edition of the 1958 original was published to celebrate the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society. It contains an essay by eminent American-French scholar and historian, Gilbert Chinard, and an introduction by former Assistant Librarian and Curator of Printe...

Maistre nicole oresme

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Tintype in america, 1856-1880

A history of the ferrotype or tintype in Amer. photography, from its origin in the 1850s until 1880. Schimmelman, Prof. of Art History, presents a history of the technological development of the tintype & its manufacture, & touches upon a number of issues relating to the cultural & so...

Luther’s pastors

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Physiologia of jean fernel (1567)

Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was one of the foremost medical writers of his day, ranked by his contemporaries alongside Andreas Vesalius, reformer of anatomical studies, and Paracelsus, radical reformer of theories of disease and treatment. He is arguably the leading expositor of the Galenic system of...

Planned invasion of japan, 1945

The massive invasion of Japan planned for Nov., 1945 required accurate knowledge of the weather conditions that moved across the Japanese Islands from Siberia. The U.S. Navy MOKO Expedition was sent to Siberia to forecast the weather for the invasion forces. The MOKO Expedition arrived in Siberia...

Some assumptions of aristotle

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Universal bach

This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in ...

The other presidency

In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s first learned society and one dedicated to promoting new research in t...

Phytoplankton and planktonic protozoa of the offshore waters of the gulf of maine

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Western journals of dr. george hunter, 1796-1805

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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 10, 1853

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

Biblioteca angelica ms. 1551

This volume consists of three sets of watercolor drawings, each depicting non-Europea peoples or places in Asia and the Americas. The volume belonged to the famous collector and antiquarian Camillo Massino (1620-1677), and was part of a large donation to the library by his descendants in the 19th...

Later roman colonate and freedom

The aim of the research in this study is not to create a new theory of the origin of the colonate, but to show the circumstances surrounding it & to discover to what measure these contributed to reducing free tenants to a position where they did not dare to leave the land they tilled -- land ...

Artists in the life of charleston

Charleston’s greatest contribution to American painting was timely patronage of men of ability. Contents: Historical intro.; Art and artists from the 16th to the mid-18th cent.; Jeremiah Theus, Alexander Gordon, and the mid-18th cent.; Prosperous Pre-Revolutionary years; The Revolutionary years; ...

Western hostility to islam and prophecies of turkish doom

The tall tales of medieval pilgrims and the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the Middle Ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always wil...

Both english and latin

This study examines the interplay of Latin and English in a selection of John Milton’s neo-Latin writings. It argues that this interplay is indicative of an inherent bilingualism that proceeds hand-in-hand with a self-fashioning that is bicultural in essence. Interlingual flexibility ultimately p...

Dictionary of weights and measures for the british isles

The complexity of medieval & modern pre-metric weights & measures (W&M) in Britain presents an obstacle to scholarly research on Western European econ. history. The problem is: the approx. dimensions of many non-standardized measuring units, used by both the Crown & the regional &...

The clownfish sea anemones: stichodactylidae (coelenterata: actiniaria) and other sea anemones symbiotic with pomacentrid fishes

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Velocity of light

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Contemporary japan

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Transmitting a text through three languages

In the 12th and 13th cent., Western Europe became possessed of Latin versions of most of the works of Greco-Arabic science & philosophy. These included works originally written in Greek & subsequently translated into Arabic, as well as works in Arabic by Christian, Muslin, and Jewish scho...

Planetary, lunar and solar positions, 601 b.c. to a.d. 1, at five-day and ten day intervals

The need for these tables became pressing when hundreds of astronomical cuneiform tables in the British Museum became available for study, partly through the copies made in the 1880s and 1890s. All these texts originally came from some archive in Babylon which was discovered by Arabs in the middl...

Census of the exact sciences in sanskrit (series a, vol. 5)

The fifth installment of a projected “Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit,” which will provide all available bibliographical info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & biographical info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or...

Architecture and planning of classical moscow

Dr. Schmidt describes the building & planning schemes in Moscow from approx. the accession of Catherine the Great in the early 1760s to the mid-reign of Nicholas I, about 1840. The author maintains that despite the enormous destruction of historic Moscow caused by the reordering of Gorkii (th...

Oxford collection of the drawings of roger de gaignieres and the royal tombs of saint-denis

In the late 17th and early 18th cent., Francois-Roger de Gaignieres (FRG) amassed an impressive collection of drawings of the tombs and other monuments of France. That collection is today divided between the Bodleian Lib. in Oxford and the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN) in Paris. Ironically, the 16 ...

The sirdar

Francis Reginald Wingate (1861-1953) was a major figure in the political, administrative, and military history of the Middle East from the early 1880s until the end of WWI. As dir. of military intelligence in the British-officered Egyptian Army during the Sudan campaigns; as sirdar (commander-in-...

Chicago lawyer arthur jerome eddy and his eclectic art collection

Correspondence of francis parkman and henry stevens, 1884-1885

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“tabula antidotarii“ of armengaud blaise and its hebrew translation

Armengaud Blaise or Blaise (d. 1312), a nephew of the celebrated medieval medical & theological figure Arnau de Vilanova (d.1311), is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the documentation preserved in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon. Armengaud became a practicing physician and w...

Order microsauria

This volume discusses in particular the suggested relationship of microsaurs with reptiles and the determination of the ancestry of the various groups of living amphibians. Twenty-five general of microsaurs are recognized in this work. Contents: History of the Microsaur Concept; Definition of Mic...

Bottled energy

This is a print on demand publication. The storage battery may seem to be little more than the device which starts a car, but during the hundred years of its commercial existence, it has filled many different roles. These roles have changed with the years, the technology of the storage battery ad...

Studies on the neoplatonist hierocles

An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author’s previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles’ median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to eme...

The route of columbus along the north coast of haiti, and the site of navidad

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Three revolutionary architects -- boulee, ledoux, and lequeu

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Dante and the book of the cosmos

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Lienzo of tulancingo, oaxaca

History, especially ancient history, gains reality when it can be related to modern geography. The interplay appears in instances cited throughout this study -- specifically of Mexican geographical identifications that help recover segments of the country’s pre-Columbia past. This study’s princip...

Astronomical papyri from oxyrhynchus (vol. i and ii)

Presents 200 hitherto unpub. astronomical texts & horoscopes written in Greek on papyrus, which were excavated a century ago in the rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, a district capital of Roman Egypt. Through these documents we obtain the first coherent picture of the range of astronomical activi...

Peiresc’s history of provence

This is both a historical detective work -- piecing together an innovative research project of the 1620s -- and a provocative argument, based on the reconstruction of Peiresc’s project. Our understanding of the history of historical scholarship needs to be turned upside down. In the “how” and “w...

Roland de la platiere, a public servant in the 18th century

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John milton’s roman sojourns, 1638-1639

Examines the impact of Rome and its vibrant culture upon Milton in the course of his two two-month sojourns in the city in 1638-1639. Focusing on his neo-Latin writings pertaining to that period, it presents new evidence of the academic, literary, and musical contexts surrounding Milton’s proacti...

Transformational journeys

This is the professional memoir of an ethnologist, who studies the cultures and languages of ethnic groups, in the present and in the past. Bricker’s journeys -- from Hong Kong to Shanghai during World War II, to the U.S. after the war, to Germany, Harvard, southeastern Mexico, and eventually to ...

Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 5, 1837

From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902

The peccary

Three living species of peccary inhabit a vast area of the New World, between roughly 35 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator. They are primarily forest or woodland animals, but two species (one of them only recently discovered) have adapted to scrub-dominated ecosystems, both natur...

Monastic reform in lorraine and the architecture of the outer crypt, 950-1100

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Baccio bandinelli and art at the medici court

More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, av...

Prussian mercantilism and the rise of the krefeld silk industry

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Dashkova

A woman of letters and the first woman member of the Amer. Philos. Soc., Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (nee Vorontsova) was also the first modern stateswoman in Russia. Dashkova was appointed director of the Acad. of Sciences by Catherine II and she founded and became Pres. of the Russian Acad. Fo...

John haygarth, frs

An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to m...

Greek horoscopes

This is a print on demand publication. What we know about Greek astronomy is dominated by Ptolemy’s “Almagest” (written c. 140 A.D.) & closely related works like Theon’s “Handy Tables” (end of 4th C.) but we have only very little info. about the practice of computing the positions of sun, moo...

Ripon minster

This is a print on demand publication. Ripon Cathedral, anciently one of the four minsters of the archdiocese of York, England, was designated a cathedral when the new diocese of Ripon was created in 1836. In the history of architecture it is properly known as Ripon Minster, a collegiate foundati...

Construction of isobaric charts for high levels in the earth’s atmosphere and their dynamic significance

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James hutton’s medical dissertation

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Murchison in moray

Rural politics and the collapse of pennsylvania federalism

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