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...

Activists

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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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Sculpture of Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Their Workshop

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Annotated Collection of Mongolian Riddles

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Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific

This is a print on demand publication. Thse papers are from two symposia at the APS, and the Univ. of PA Museum. Contents: “Intro.,” by Ward Goodenough; “The Pre-Austronesian Settlement of Island Melanesia: Implications for Lapita Archaeology,” by Jim Allen; “Austronesian Culture History: The Win...

Ruling Power

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Passion of George Sarton

George Sarton animated the discipline of history of science (HoS) in America. This vol. traces his youth & educ. in Belgium, & his marriage to Mabel Elwes. It follows the Sarton’s in their path from idealistic refugees fleeing the invasion of Belgium in 1914 to destitute intellectuals at ...

Distribution of Labor

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Steno on Muscles

A main work on muscular action, the “Elements of Myology,” by the Danish anatomist Niels Stensen (1638-1686) was written at a time when the teachings of Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Aristotle, & Galen were still the foundations upon which scholarly learning on the human body were built. In this...

Kronos, Shiva, and Asklepios

Iconographies and texts that appear in some series of magical gems are presented in this fascinating study. Magical gems are still a scarcely explored area of antiquity in which new features of religion can be discovered. This volume presents an intriguing religious complex that concerns the Egyp...

Descartes's Theory of Light and Refraction

Contents: (1) Historical Overview; & Descartes’s Perspectivist Sources; (2) Analysis of Refraction: Cartesian Light-Theory; & A Critical Evaluation; (3) The Foundations of Perspectivist Optics: Perspectivist Light-Theory; Quantization of Light; & Comparison with Descartes’s Theory of ...

Italian Weights and Measures

Unlike most metrological systems throughout W. Europe, the Italian developed during the Middle Ages (MA) & Early Modern era without any ref. to a commonly accepted set of nat.-ethnic standards. Italy, with its many kingdoms, duchies, communes, etc., was never able to attain any level of metro...

Descended from Darwin

This vol. has its origins in a conference, held October 22-23, 2004, at the Amer. Philosophical Society (APS) Library, Phila. The main focus was on evolutionary studies in America before, during, and after the famous “synthesis” period of the 1930s and 1940s. The synthesis period has been the foc...

Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson

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Royal Funding of the Parisian Academie Royale des Sciences During the 1690s

The scientific revolution of the 17th century engendered diverse & prolific offspring, among which were the scientific societies. The French Academie Royale des Sciences, founded in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, was the beneficiary of the most generous patron...

Out of Nazi Germany in Time, a Gift to American Science

When Adolf Hitler became Germany’s Reich chancellor in 1933, Dr. Gerhard Schmidt knew his world was crashing around him. A highly cultured assimilated Jew, he studied medicine, trained in biochemistry, and attained a faculty position at the Univ. of Frankfurt. Two months after Hitler’s rise, Dr. ...

Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-like Forms (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)

This is a print on demand publication. Associations of copepods with marine invertebrates are common, especially in tropical waters. In the 25 years before this review was written in 1982, a large number of new copepod associates were discovered. In 1982 the number of species of copepods known to...

Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U.S.A.

This is a print on demand publication. The excavation of an immense pit near the Santee River in South Carolina has produced the first Paleocene vertebrate fauna from the South Atlantic coast of the U.S., as well as a rich flora that provides extensive knowledge of the paleoenvironmental setting ...

Due Reverence

This vol. evolved from a tiny segment of the author’s study of the Cabinet of Curiosities of the Am. Philosophical Soc. (APS). One of the divisions of this Cabinet is “Objets d’Art” and he included furniture in this division. As time passed, awareness grew of several fascinating and valuable anti...

Proceedings in Parliament 1614 (House of Commons)

An edition of the extant manuscripts of proceedings in the Lower House of the English parliament of 1614, prefaced by a critical introduction to the texts and a description of source materials. The vol. includes 8 appendixes, one of which is a list of returns that reveals the full membership of t...

Late Ancient and Medieval Population

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Our Contentious Universities

How universities have become increasingly contentious since the Sixties, from the viewpoint of a former Princeton provost and Harvard presidentFrom his days at Princeton University as a member of the faculty, dean, and provost, and his time as a faculty member and president at Harvard University,...

Proto-Elamo-Dravidian

This is a print on demand publication. Demonstrates that the Dravidian language family of South Asia is related to Elamite, a major language of ancient West Asia. Also, it follows up on some of the implications of this relationship. To do this, summaries are provided of comparative Dravidian &...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 6, 1809

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

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. I

Contents: Tome 1: Knowledge: Fruits of Scribal Activity in Ancient Egypt; Early Egyptian “Annals” on Stone (the Palermo Stone); “Bio.” of Metjen; Inscriptions from the: Tomb of Niankhsekhmet, Tomb of Washptah, Tomb of Senedjemib; Tales of Wonder at the Court of King Cheops (Khufu); Scribal Immort...

Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order

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Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan

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Mediaeval Arabic Bookmarking and its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology

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Speaking in Tongues

Raised in a Lebanese mountain village, Fedwa Malti-Douglas came to America at the age of 13. After a rich academic career, Prof. Malti-Douglas turned her attention to other muses, publishing a novel in 1998, and poetry (incl. a chapbook of visual poetry). Fedwa’s honors include the 1997 Kuwait Pr...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 2, 1786

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

Sanskrit Astronomical Tables in the United States

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Organized Business and the Myth of the China Market: The American Asiatic Association, 1898-1937

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Talleyrand

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Irish Federalism in the 1870’s

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Criminal Syndicalism and the Law in California

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Early Archeological Site Near Panuco, Vera Cruz. Foreward by Alfred V. Kidder

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Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge

The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art and science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural...

A Life for Water

Luna Leopold (1915-2006) is widely viewed as the foremost student of rivers of the 20th century. This illustrated volume presents a selection of informal essays written over the course of his long career. These essays complement his professional articles and books, and they illustrate how he beca...

Physical Health and Psychiatric Disorder in Nigeria

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Trukese-English Dictionary

Three closely related languages are spoken in Truk State, Federated States of Micronesia: Trukese, Mortlockese, and Puluwatese. Trukese has by far the largest number of of speakers in the Truk state. Building on the dictionary by Samuel H. Elbert, published in 1947, this dictionary representes th...

Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait

Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of the early maritime trade in the northern Pacific in general, & in the Bering Strait area in particular. The maritime fur trade was an important commercial force in the Bering Strait region from the early 19th cent. until the outbreak of WW2...

Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho

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Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Astronomer, Mystic, Revolutionary

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Whole Life Cycle of Chromosomes and Their Coiling Systems

Chromosomes play so important a role in heredity & development that it is desirable to know their entire life cycle since this knowledge will provide a basis for better understanding of their behavior. Contents of this study: Introduction; The genus “Holomastigotoides”; Species of “Holomastig...

William Croone, on The Reason of the Movement of the Muscles

When William Croone published his small treatise, “De ratione motus musculorum” in 1664, it represented one of the earliest attempts to explicate muscle contraction in terms of the then current mechanical & chemical concepts. The work is significant not only because it provides an informative...

Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians

This is a print on demand publication. A study of medieval ag., of the rural world of southern France, & of the early corporate farms of the new religious order of Citeaux, founded in Burgundy in 1098 & imported into southern France in the mid-12th cent. It is a study of the agriculture &...

Scent of Time. A Study of the Use of Fire and Incense for Time Measurement in Oriental Countries

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French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793

Hill contends that French officials in the postwar decade had already perceived a deep-rooted Amer. indifference, even hostility, to a number of vital French nat. interests. The author examines the harsh disappointments & frustrations these officials experienced in their dealings with Amer. i...

Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millennium B.C. and its Chronological Background

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Revision of Fossil Sequoia and Taxodium in Western North America Based on the Recent Discovery of Metasequoia

The recently discovered redwood of China, “Metasequoia glyptostroboides” Hu & Cheng, shows close relationship to two North American trees, the coast redwood, “Sequoia sempervirens” Endlicher of the western U.S., & the swamp cypress, “Taxodium distichum” Richard of the Southeastern U.S. Fo...

Sixteenth-Century Pokom-Maya

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Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) and Anton Dohrn (1840-1909)

In 1869 Anton Dohrn wrote to Karl Ernst von Baer to enlist his help in supporting the Stazione Zoologica that would soon be set up in Naples. This was the first of an exchange of 36 letters between Anton Dohrn and von Baer that constitutes the principal portion of this correspondence; there is a...

Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898

Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any prev...

Tower of the Winds in Athens

The Tower of the Winds has stood in the shadow of the Acropolis in Athens for more than 2,100 years. This tall octagonal building, one of the best preserved monuments from the classical period, was built by the architect-astronomer Andronikos of Kyrrhos as a horologion for keeping time. Almost al...

Passive Tranquillity

Menomini Peyotism. With Transcriptions Analysis of Menomini Peyote Music

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Literature and Political Change

This is a print on demand publication. A study of the Nyugat movement in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire, one of the organizers of which was the father of author Mario D. Fenyo. The objective purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is an attempt to formulate a methodology, a theory of the po...

Distractions of Peace During War

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North by Degree

In this vol. of papers on the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century Arctic exploration, the authors have examined the social, cultural, technological, and environmental settings in which exploration endeavors were conceived, carried out, described, and understood by the public. The confere...

The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs, 1896

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“One Grand Pursuit”

Edward C. Carter II began this project to create a souvenir for the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) 250th Anniversary Celebration in 1993. The APS is the oldest learned society in the U.S. and one of the most prestigious organizations of its kind in the world. The story of the APS and those men...

From “Academia” to “Amicitia”

Chapters: (1) Milton & the Accademia degli Svogliati; (2) Milton & the Accademia degli Apatisti; (3) Florentine “Written Encomiums”: Antonion Francini, & Carlo Dati; (4) Patterns of “Amicitia”: The Milton/Dati Correspondence: (i) Reconstructing a Lost Dati Epistle to Milton; (ii) The ...