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Natural philosophy of chu hsi (1130-1200)
Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specializ...
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Intellectual symbolism
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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From defense to resistance
This is a print on demand publication. The right to defend oneself & one’s property came into conflict with medieval rulers’ attempts to maintain public order. As the French monarchy asserted its claims to sovereignty, the concept of “lese-majeste,” or treason, grew, but so did the belief tha...
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Pavia and rome
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The carcasses of the mammoth and rhinoceros found in the frozen ground of siberia
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Cuneiform uranology texts
Presents a newly recovered group of cuneiform texts from first millennium Babylonia and Assyria that provide prose descriptions of the drawing (eseru) of Mesopotamian constellations. Describes these constellations in terms of their parts: body parts for constellations in human or animal form, par...
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Medical ethics of medieval islam with special reference to al-ruhawi practical ethics of the physician
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Learning greek in western europe, 1396-1529
This book is a guide to the basic tools of Renaissance Greek studies and their use in the classrooms of the 15th and 16th centuries. Author Paul Botley examines the origins and diffusion of 21 Greek grammars composed during the period, explores the development of Greek lexicography during the Ren...
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Lai de l'oiselet
Provides a complete & accurate text of a poem, “Lai de l’Oiselet”, that has long been available only in outdated or partial editions. Brings up-to-date & gathers in one place as much info. as possible about the origins of the story & its many analogues. Contents: (I) Synopsis of the S...
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Maistre nicole oresme
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Science and society in early america
These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell’s interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads; Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selec...
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Egyptian planetary texts
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Journey on the forbidden path
This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, ...
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Abbe correa in america, 1812-1820. the contributions of the diplomat and natural philosopher to the foundations of our national life
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New and full moons, 1001 b.c. to a.d. 1651
Originally pub. in 1973; reprinted in 1994. Presents tables giving the dates of all new and full moons during an historical era when these data were of considerable interest and importance. The longitudes of the moon at each of these times is also given, as is a consecutive enumeration of the con...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 16, part 3, 1890
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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New guide to the collections in the library of the american philosophical society
This guide incorp. entries from the guide pub. in 1966 (Memoirs of the APS, Vol. 66). The earlier entries have been updated and listings for all new collections, microfilm holdings, sound recordings (esp. in Native Amer. lang.), and maps are now included. Since the first guide, the Library has in...
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Command of light
Henry Rowland (1848-1901) was one of the most important figures in the founding of modern physics in the U.S. A principal founder and first pres. of the Amer. Physical Soc., he is best known for his invention of the concave spectral grating for which he won a gold medal and grand prize at the 189...
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Scientific papers of james logan
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Bellievre, sully, and the assembly of notables 1596
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Koch centennial memorial
Koch Centennial Memorial, March 1982, Vol. 125, No. 3 (part 2 of 2 parts). Contents: Robert Koch, Tuberculosis (TB), & the Subsequent History of Medicine; TB & Medical Science; Epidemiology of TB; Disease Transmission & Contagion Control; TB: Susceptibility & Resistance; Pathogen...
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Dissertations on the mechanics of effervescence and fermentation, and on the mechanics of the movement of the muscles by johan bernoulli
The two “physico-mechanical” dissertations by the Swiss mathematician Johan Bernoulli, “On Effervescence and Fermentation” and “On the Movement of Muscles,” published here for the first time in English translation by Paul Maquet, are treatises belonging to the 17th century European academic tradi...
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Mycenae tablets ii; with an introduction by alan j.b. wace and elizabeth b. wace; translations and commentary by john chadwick
The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae. It was primarily to publish these that the present edition of the Mycenaean texts from Mycenae was undertaken. Contents: Intro.: The Discovery of the Tablets; The Residential Q...
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Massawomeck
The Massawomeck are but one of several hinterland Indian groups which having made a brief, frequently violent, appearance during the 17th century, disappear. Eyewitness & contemporary accounts of the Massawomeck, which are confined to the period 1607-1634, are closely associated with the foun...
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Oresme's livre de politiques and the france of charles v
Charles V was a scholarly king who commissioned French versions of ancient & medieval treatises for the express purpose of guiding his government. To translate Aristotle’s “Politics” he chose Nicole Oresme, an ingenious philosopher whose aptitude & attitudes made him an effective supporte...
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Cosmic harmony and political thinking in early stuart england
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Respiration and the lavoisier tradition
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On my honour
Arising in the first decades of the twentieth century, the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements came into existence in Britain in an era of social and political unrest and were initially the center of intense controversy. Through the years, Guiding and Scouting broke down class, race, and gender di...
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Queen mary psalter
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its devotional texts are framed by an encyclopedic series of narrative imag...
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Emil von behring
In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in med. for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era and its develop. generated procedures for testing, standardizing, and re...
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Study in the official elizabethan doctrine of the prince
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Letters of lafayette to washington, 1777-1799 (rev. ed.)
The friendship between Lafayette & Washington began slowly but had developed fully by late 1777. By the time Lafayette’s military service in America had come to an end, they were good friends. During the course of their correspondence Lafayette discussed all manner of public & private eve...
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Raising kane
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s ...
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Continuations of the old french perceval of chrétien de troyes. 3, part 1
Originally published in 1949; reprinted 1965.
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A male hysteria
A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what di...
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Octavian's campsite memorial for the actian war
On Sept. 2, 31 B.C., East met West off Cape Actium in the last major naval battle of antiquity with Mark Antony, Cleopatra & Octavian playing the pivotal roles. Actium’s victor, Octavian, evolved from a revolutionary leader into a masterly statesman who was actually able to rejuvenate & r...
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The bookrunner
In the first decade of the 19th century the U.S. and Mexico reached out to one another to initiate diplomacy, trade, and cultural borrowings. Each faced the task of decolonization and nation-building. This book explores the political and cultural history of Mexico at the time of its independence ...
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Cosimo brunetti
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Old babylonian inscriptions chiefly from nippur
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Open-field husbandry and the village community
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Russian overseas commerce with great britain during the reign of catherine ii
On the basis of newly-discovered Russian and British archival sources, Prof. Kaplan makes important scholarly contributions to 18th-cent. economic history. He demonstrates that there was not only a symbiotic economic relationship between Russia and Great Britain, but also that Russia contributed ...
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Circling the square
Since antiquity, time in the West has been represented in circular form, the gear wheels of time churning out duration in endless years. At the time of the Spanish conquest, dials on round clock faces looked down from facades of cathedrals, their tones chiming out the hours that directed people’s...
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Fish-shape paumanok
The bittersweet message of this volume is at once Robert Cushman Murphy’s celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that inspired him; a chronicle of man’s destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways. Althoug...
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Encyclopedic dictionary of roman law
This Dictionary: explains technical Roman legal terms, translates & elucidate those Latin words which have a specific connotation when used in a juristic context or in connection with a legal institution or question, & provides a brief picture of Roman legal institutions & sources as ...
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Cape gelidonya
This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. T...
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Crisis of the weimar republic
Contents: The Uncompleted World of the Revolution & the Origins of the Dispute Over the Princes’ Properties; The First Stages of the Controversy, Nov. 1925 to Jan. 1926: The Communists Set the Pace; The Social Democratic Party Astride Two Horses: The SPD’s Decision to Support the Referendum, ...
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Beginnings of shi’i studies in germany
Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, a sub-sect of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century, consulting pri...
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History of chinese society-liao
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First i find the center point
During his explanation of both the painting made by Hugh for the school of Saint Victor & the text that describes it, Conrad Rudolph addresses “The Mystic Ark” in the two senses of the word “Ark.” First, he speaks of the iconographical component of the Ark proper in the image of “The Mystic A...
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Preserving useful knowledge
This book traces the history of collections care at the American Philosophical Society (APS) as revealed through its minute books, treasurers’ receipts, and librarians’ correspondence. It also examines the physical evidence presented by books and documents that were repaired by former restorers a...
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Ideas of religious toleration at the time of joseph ii. a study of the enlightenment among catholics in austria
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Al-kashi's geographical tables
Jamshid Ghyath al-Din al-Kashi (fl. 1420), a native of central Iran, worked at the Samarqand observatory of Sultan Ulugh Beg, grandson of Tamerlane. Kashi is best known as a virtuoso of computational mathematics, but he was also a competent astronomer. Among his major works is the “Zij-i Khaqani,...
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Perugia, 1260-1340
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Schmick's mahican dictionary
This vol., a modern reworking of the mss. of Johann Jacob Schmick, is in the “Moravian” dialect of Mahican and is divided into an English-Mahican-German section and a Mahican-English section. It includes a Mahican historical phonology and a background and explanatory description. This dictionary ...
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Civilizing power. study of the panathenaic discourse of aelius aristides against the background of literature and cultural conflict
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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 (APS). In this “first systematic attempt to collec...
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Collection boulliau (bn, ff. 13019-13059)
The life & career of Ismael Boulliau virtually spanned the century of genius. An accomplished astronomer, mathematician, & classical scholar, Boulliau was an activist in the cause of Scientific Revolution. His voluminous correspondence placed him at the heart of one of the largest intelli...
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The life of c. s. rafinesque, a man of uncommon zeal
Charles Boewe’s study of Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783-1840) began more than 50 years ago. It was materially advanced by Boewe’s ability to explore archival resources in both Philadelpha and Lexington during his own extended residence in those cities where Rafinesque himself lived. Later, w...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, old series, vol 1, 1769-1771 (corrected edition)
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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Enlightened bureaucracy versus enlightened despotism in baden, 1750-1792
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Famine plot persuasion in eighteenth-century france
This is a print on demand publication. The French Revolution seethed with rumors of plots instigated by various groups from aristocrats to brigands. Many of the rumors had to do with the food supply, especially with grain, from which the vast majority of Frenchmen derived most of their nourishmen...
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Review of atlantic and eastern pacific anthiine fishes (teleostei: perciformes: serranidae), with descriptions of two new genera
This study presents a taxonomic review of the Atlantic and eastern Pacific members of the serranid subfamily Anthiinae, providing a much-needed survey of an important group of fishes. This monograph builds upon the literature with the results of examinations of large numbers of museum specimens a...
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Persecution of peter olivi
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Jacques loeb
German born Jacques Loeb was both a biologist (nominated for the Nobel Prize in Med. in 1901) & political activist. The authors highlight Loeb's organizational actions & political opinions during the years of 1906 to 1924, the year he died. As a social activist & scientist, Loeb influ...
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Prehistoric research in afghanistan (1959-1966)
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Iron age and etruscan vases in the olcott collection at columbia university, new york
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Late permian terrestrial vertebrates, u.s.a. and u.s.s.r.
Slowly, over more than a century & a quarter, the history of Permian terrestrial vertebrates has been pieced together by discovery & study of fossil-bearing strata in all of the continents except Australia & Antarctica. The decade of the 1950s has been exciting from the standpoint of ...
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Oboe concertos of sir william herschel
Contents: Brief Biography of the Composer; Sources; Description of the Oboe Concertos; Facsimiles of Various Pages of the Autograph Manuscripts of the Oboe Concertos; and the actual Scores for Concerto No. 1 in E-flat; Concerto No. 2 in C; Concerto No. 3 in C, and Movement of an Oboe Concerto, in C.
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Isaac israeli's the definition of fever and its essence in its hebrew translations
Isaac Israeli (ca. 855–932 CE, Kairouan) was part of the first generation of authors who began to build a legacy of medical and philosophical knowledge based on Arabic translations of Greek writings and on their own experience. Isaac Israeli wrote at least three medical monographs, among them the...
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A quaker’s tour of the colonial northeast and canada
A study of the travel journals of Philadelphia Quaker Jabez Maud Fisher, this book brings to light an important but largely unknown text from the Revolutionary era. Fisher traveled to upstate New York, through parts of Canada, then New England, in the late spring through early fall of 1773. The B...
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The diplomacy of independence
Presenting more than seventy documents from Spanish archives that provide a rare glimpse into Benjamin Franklin’s connection to Spain.Although Benjamin Franklin never set foot in Spain, from 1774 until his death in 1790 he maintained contact and correspondence with a wide range of Spanish officia...
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Ptolemy and the foundations of ancient mathematical optics
Contents: (I) Ancient Theories of Visual Perception: The Physics of Vision; The Physiology of Vision; The Psychology of Visual Perception; (II) Optics Proper: Analysis of Direct Vision: The Visual Cone; The Visual Perception of Physical Space; Binocular Vision; (III) Catoptrics: Analysis of Visio...
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Darwin’s disciple
This volume is a careful biographical study of the life and letters of George Romanes (1848-1894), who was a strong advocate for Darwinian evolution. “Because of his central role in defending Darwinian evolution and his close relationship with Darwin during the last decade of Darwin’s life, Roman...
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Isidore of seville
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 16, part 2, 1888
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Pathways into the study of ancient sciences
These essays offer a sampling of the incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise of David E. Pingree (1933-2005), Brown Univ. Professor of the History of Math. and Classics. His contributions to the history of science are immeasurable. Pingree defined science as “a systematic explanation of perc...
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Vascular flora of pennsylvania
The PA Flora Database (PFD) has its roots in the work of Edgar Wherry, John Fogg, Jr., and Herbert Wahl, the “Atlas of the Flora of PA”, pub. by the Morris Arboretum of the Univ. of PA. Over a period of 40 years, Wherry and his colleagues gathered data from the major PA herbaria and manually plac...
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Trukese-english dictionary, supplementary volume
This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index or finderlist for the Trukese-English of the first volume & a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that we cannot analyze into con...
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Alexander the great
This English translation of Le Rider’s study of the coinage and financial policy of Alexander the Great brings the magisterial scholarship of one of the world’s greatest living numismatists before an Anglophone public. For more than 40 years Le Rider has published fundamental studies on the coina...
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Tobacco adventure to russia. enterprise, politics, and diplomacy in the quest for a northern market for english colonial tobacco, 1676-1722
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Flavius merobaudes
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Lewis evans and his american philosophical society
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Revolution in measurement
Zupco presents the legacies of the Middle Ages to the pioneering reformers of the Scientific Revolution; the monumental impact of math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, & technology on modern metrology; the creations, struggles, & successes of the Metric System; & the intense battles be...
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Queen of sicily and gothic stained glass in mussy and tonnerre
Following the death of St. Louis, a new court fashion of ostentatious display was introduced into French stained glass with the advent of Queen Marie de Brabant, who in 1274 became the second wife of St. Louis's heir Philippe le hardi. Little stained glass in this new style survives, since the ve...
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Census of the exact sciences in sanskrit (series a, vol. 4)
This fourth volume of the “Census” provides all available bibliographical info. concerning works in jyotihsastra & related fields & biographical info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of ho...
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Medieval theories of the just price. romanists, canonists, and theologians in the 12th and 13th centuries
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Justice in medieval russia
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Supplement to the tuckerman tables
This is a supplement to the planetary, lunar and solar tables produced by Bryant Tuckerman (1962, 1964). These tables have proved an invaluable aid to historians of astronomy. An important usage is the dating of ancient and medieval astronomical observations, but the tables also have wide applica...
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Thomas holme, surveyor general of pennsylvania
The odyssey of Thomas Holme, William Penn’s first surveyor general, began when Holme enrolled in the war against Charles I and proceeded through England, and, finally, to William Penn’s Province of PA. He was a captain in Cromwell’s army, a Quaker minister, author, and administrator, and landhold...
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Artist at work
French author Chretien de Troyes is now firmly estabished as the most important vernacular writer of the 12th-century renaissance. Chretien, a native of Troyes in Champagne, was patronized by two powerful nobles & was thus well placed to compose the courtly lit. that characterized his time. H...
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Realms of gold
This volume is a catalog of the rich & extensive collection of maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) in Philadelphia. it contains information on some 1,750 printed maps, over 1,000 manuscript maps, 136 atlases, two globes, & one model. Murphy Smith began this projec...
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Occitan translations of john xii and xiii-xvii from a fourteenth-century franciscan codex (assisi, chiesa nuova ms. 9)
Manuscript 9 of the Biblioteca Storico-Francescana of the Chiesa Nuova in Assisi is an anthology of Franciscan writings in the Occitan language. Since the appearance in 1955 of Ingrid Arthur’s ed. of the Occitan version of Bonaventure’s bio. of St. Francis, scholars have devoted increasing attent...
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Tertiary vertebrate faunas of the north coalinga region of california. a contribution to the study of palæontologic correlation in the great basin and pacific coast provinces
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 4, 1834
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Geology of the coastal plain of north carolina
Deals with the geology of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, which covers the area east of the “Fall Line” or, approx., east of a line through Roanoke Rapids, Raleigh, Southern Pines, and Rockingham. Covers all the formations of the Coastal Plain from the Cretaceous to the Recent. The major par...
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Gears from the greeks
Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy o...
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Leon abbett's new jersey
Following in the succession of his 25 predecessors, Leon Abbett twice served as governor of New Jersey in the late 19nth century. A lifelong Democrat, he was a dynamic and visionary party leader who guided the citizens of New Jersey into a new urban industrial age. While he was a machine politici...
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Irish cattle bills
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Floristic relationships between eastern asia and eastern north america
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Revolutionary in exile
In 1794, approx. 10,000 persons emigrated from Europe, esp. England, to the U.S. Many of them played an active role in the English radical movement that developed in the French revolutionary era, and were a vital component in the emergence of the philosophy that came to be known as Jeffersonian R...
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