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Royal Taxation in Fourteenth-Century France
A history of the development of French royal finance in the 14th century. An earlier work studied the crown’s finances between 1322 and 1356 when France was still in the “age of the war subsidy” and taxes were temporary wartime expedients. This book, a sequel to that study, shows how the capture ...
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Antikythera Shipwreck Reconsidered
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Johannes Klenkok
An account of the life and circumstances of a little known Augustinian friar with an interesting career, Johannes Klenkok. Author Christopher Ocker attempts to reconstruct his biography more accurately than has been achieved up to now, but in so doing he considers as much as possible the organiza...
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Origins of Calvin’s Theology of Music
This is a print on demand publication. The singing of psalms was one of the incontestably distinguishing marks of Calvinist culture in Europe & America in the 16th & 17th centuries. Contents of this study: Introduction; The Point of Origin; The “Institution” of 1536; The “Articles” of 153...
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Essays and Reviews in History and History of Science
A collection of essays of enduring interest in the history of science by Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He founded the undergraduate program in the History of Science at Princeton in 1956 and continues to work with s...
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John Beale Bordley’s “Necessaries”
John Beale Bordley (1727-1804) first had “Necessaries” printed in 1776 as a 17-page pamphlet. In 1799, he revised his work and reprinted it as a chapter in “Essays and Notes on Husbandry and Rural Affairs.” “Necessaries” published a 3rd time in 1801, when “Essays and Notes” saw a corrected and ex...
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Art, Science, Invention
Charles Willson Peale was the owner of the nation’s first successful natural history museum. The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS) Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent APS Museum exhibitions included select...
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Neolithic Age in Eastern Siberia
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Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1940
This is a print on demand publication. Of all the British “amateur ambassadors” none was more distinguished than Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian (1882-1940). His tenure of office was brief -- Aug. 1939 to Dec. 1940 -- but it coincided with a crucial period in British & U.S. history. Rece...
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On Calculating the Factor of Chance in Language Comparison
While all human languages are likely to be genetically related, the remoter relationships cannot be demonstrated by reliable linguistic methods because the languages in question have diverged too much. Any demonstration of a relationship between languages depends on finding words & grammatica...
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Nature's Enigma
Two striking discoveries made 1740 a turning point in the history of 18th-century biology. Charles Bonnet established that aphids could reproduce without male fertilization. Shortly afterwards Abraham Trembley proved that a tiny aquatic animal, the fresh water polyp, or hydra, could regenerate fr...
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Some Architects’ Portraits in Nineteenth-Century America
This is the first study devoted to the portraits of nineteenth-century American architects. It is an examination of the way the iconography of such images changed over time to reflect the changing social status of the architect as the profession evolved during the century. Portraits in oil on can...
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Chindali and English Dictionary with an Index to Proto-Bantu Roots
Chindali is a Bantu language of eastern Africa, spoken in the southwest Mbeya region of Tanzania and in the northern Chitipa District of Malawi. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 in Tanzania. In Malawi, not only are there varieties known as Chindali, but also the closely relat...
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The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries
In October 2018, the Amer, Philosophical Soc. (APS) gathered a group of scholars, library professionals, & thought leaders to discuss the past, present, & future of the library. This also marked the 275th ann’y. of the APS, founded by Benjamin Franklin & several friends. Topics includ...
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Joseph Hume
When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endea...
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Search for a New Voltaire
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Franklin's Father Josiah
Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler and soapmaker, remains a marginal figure in most biographies of his well-known son, Benjamin Franklin, due largely to a lack of written documentation. Biographers of Franklin included him mainly from a genealogical viewpoint, and few of them gave him further att...
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Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D.
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Pictograph to Alphabet -- and Back
The Xajil chronicle of the Kaqchikel Maya of Guatemala is topically the most diverse, lengthy, and organizationally complex of the surviving highland-Maya historical texts that were first recorded alphabetically in the colonial period. In this monograph, the author demonstrates that much of the C...
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France and the Arab Middle East
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Political Correspondence of the Gladstone Era
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Alhacen on Image-Formation and Distortion in Mirrors
Contents: (A) Alhacen’s Analysis of Image-Distortion in Mirrors: An Overview; The Sources for Alhacen’s Analysis and Its Reception in the Latin West; Conclusion; (B) Manuscripts and Editing; (C) Latin Text: Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3: Analysis of Plane Mirrors: Proposition (Prop.) 1; Ch. 4: Analysis of ...
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Clarence Luther Herrick
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Yearbook, American Philosophical Society (2002-2003)
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 11, 1860
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Chromosomes in the Spermatogenesis of the Hemiptera Heteroptera
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Mechanical Universe
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The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part III. Lagomorpha
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In the Shade of an Acacia Tree
When Frank Lambrecht arrived in Africa in 1945 he came with a 3 years’ contract with the Congo Red Cross. What he found in the Belgian Congo was an old colonial system steeped in its traditions right down to the garb colonials wore & the separate class structure for Europeans & natives. W...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 12, Part 1, 1862
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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A More Perfect Union
Contents: Conjugating the Constitution -- From Noun to Verb; & Bicentennial Blues: To Praise the Constitution or to Bury It?, both by Laurence Tribe. Essays: The Dr. Richard Penrose Memorial Lecture: Remarks on the Constitutional Celebration, by Lord Scarman. Sympos. on the U.S. Constitution:...
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“Real Expedicion Maritima De La Vacuna” in New Spain and Guatemala
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Francis Bacon and Scientific Poetry
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Poetry, Knowledge, & Scientific Poetry; Epistemology vs. Poetics in Bacon; Bacon & the Presocratic Poet-philosophers; Bacon & Lucretius; Bacon’s Science & Virgil’s Poetry; & Conclusion: Poetic Language & Scientific Discourse.
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A New Marsupial Saber-Tooth from the Pliocene of Argentina and Its Relationships to Other South American Predacious Marsupials
This publication pulls directly from the 1926 Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition conducted in the province of Catamarca, Argentina. This expedition made extensive collections of mammal fossils from the Araucanian formation in the region, totaling some 200 specimens, including carnivorous m...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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History of American Ornithology Before Audubon
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Anschluss Movement 1918-1919 and the Paris Peace Conference
This is a print on demand publication. After the breakup of the Habsburg monarchy, Austrians of diverse political persuasions turned quickly toward Anschluss with the new German Republic. Between World Wars I & II the Anschluss movement figured large on the horizon of European history. Its “f...
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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 &...
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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...
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A Museum
The Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS) was formed in 1743 in Phila. Members contributed a wide variety of items to the APS, such as rocks, fossils, and plant specimens, which they acquired through their involvement in such activities as physics, astronomy, math, geography, med., chemistry, mechanics,...
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Revision of the Tenebrionidae of America, North of Mexico
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Of Elephants & Roses
This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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Abbot Joachim of Fiore
This is a Print On Demand Publication. Contents: Introduction; The Life of Abbot Joachim; The Structure and Purpose of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Date of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Tables and Figures; The Two “Diffinitiones”; The Manuscripts of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Manuscript Famil...
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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
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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...
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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 ...
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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; ...
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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...
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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...
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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 &...
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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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A Search for Fluctuations in the Sun's Thermal Radiation through Their Influence on Terrestrial Temperature
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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1769: Transit of Venus
The ToV occurs when Venus’s orbit causes the planet to speed past the slower moving Earth and visibly cross the Sun, partially obscuring it. The ToV occur in pairs that are 8 years apart and tend to be separated in time by just over a century. The first person to predict and observe the ToV was J...
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