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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Illustrated Imprints of Isaiah Thomas

Isaiah Thomas was a leading 18th-cent. patriot, printer, publisher, and bookseller in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin. Founder of the Amer. Antiquarian Soc., he donated his library and newspaper files to the Society’s archive. Here, Lacey offers a representative sampling of the illustrated pub...

Nikolaos Masarites

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 6, 1839

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

Sophie de Grouchy Letters on Sympathy (1798)

Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet, was a woman of the French Enlightenment who was a member of the Girondin revolutionary faction, ran an influential salon, and translated Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. Her “Lettres sur la sympathie” is a work on moral philosophy, a theory of social progress...

Asclepius of Tralles

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A Commentary on Loureiro's "Flora Cochinchinensis"

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A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830)

Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly obscure. Elizabeth ...

P.-L. Roederer

P.-L. Roederer has been known principally for his role in escorting the French king to the Legislative Assembly on 10 Aug. 1792 & for assisting in the coup d’etat of brumaire. Recent historians, however, have come to discover that Roederer’s career was long, varied, & significant. This st...

Ancient Egyptian Science, Vol. III

Continues Clagett's studies of the various aspects of the science of Ancient Egypt. Like its predecessors, it has two main objectives: first to summarize & analyze the principal features of a nascent & yet important part of that science, namely its mathematics, & second to present in ...

Comparative Studies of North American Indians

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Diplomacy of the Mexican Empire, 1863-1867

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Cultivation and Weaving of Cotton in the Prehistoric Southwestern United States

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A Review of the Doradidæ, a Family of South American Nematognathi, or Catfishes

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Parishes, Tithes, and Society in Earlier Medieval Poland c. 1100-c. 1250

In 1226, Pope Honorius III resolved a conflict between the Duke of Silesia, Henry I the Bearded, & Bishop Lawrence of Wroclaw, the see of that duchy. Henry alleged that the bishop had subjected the inhabitants of his duchy to “unowed exactions levied as tithes.” Henry alleged a devastating im...

Evidence

Based on a symposium hosted by the American Philosophical Society, Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data brings together essays from scholars representing a host of disciplines from statistics through psychology and anthropology to examine the question of evidence and what it means.Contributors ex...

W. B. Yeats

Shortest and Most Convenient Route

Based on papers delivered at the Bicentennial Conference for Lewis & Clark, held in Philadelphia in Aug. 2003, these essays grapple in different ways with the motives underlying the Corps of Discovery & the impact on American culture. The question of failure is used by the authors as a me...

Making Science History

The history of science from 1945 to 2020, told from the perspective of Arnold Thackray, a pioneering expert in the fieldIn this fascinating personal account of what he calls the “American century,” Arnold Thackray, noted historian of the development of science, relates his life’s story, beginning...

Trial of Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield, 1307-1312

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Edward T. Cardwell: Peelite

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Studies of the Northern Campus Martius in Ancient Rome

This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find journal. Treats ancient sites and monuments in the northern Campus Martius. For centuries during the Republic the field of the god Mars lay outside the city of Rome on its northwestern limit. Some political activities and many religious activiti...

City-Building Process

Revised Transactions 68-5 (1978).

Playing with Fire

This collection of historical and scientific studies shows the impressive significance of the invention, development, and use of the lightning rod in the past 250 years. The rod was a device long taken to be a symbol of enlightenment and utility, judged by some people the very first practical app...

Infidel Scourge of God

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Evils of Necessity

Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney and U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina and Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South’s leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House W...

Settlement and Land Use in Micheldever Hundred, Hampshire, 700-1100

Late Triassic Footprint Fauna from the Culpeper Basin, Northern Virginia (U.S.)

Thousands of footprint impressions, probably of Norian age, have been discovered on a single bedding plane in a quarry in the Culpeper Basin of N. Virginia. About 830 tracks on this bedding surface, contained in 32 recognizable trackways, were studied in detail. The other tracks were too obscure ...

Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry

Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought & action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, & other events & practices...

Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier

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Contrasts in Scientific Style

Recounts the various styles of leadership shown by several prominent German chemists and biochemists during the period 1830 to 1914. Featured particularly are chemists Liebig, Baeyer and Emil Fischer and biochemists Hoppe-Seyler, Kuhne and Hofmeister. In a final chapter, Fruton considers the rele...

Classical Romantic

This book recuperates the Latin poetry of Vincent Bourne by exploring the poet’s unique techniques of self-fashioning that distinguish him from his neo-Latin forebears & contemporaries. Haan is the UK’s most eminent neo-Latinist. Through close & perceptive analysis of Bourne’s negotiation...

Joseph Nicollet and His Map

A biography of Joseph Nicollet, the brave & tireless explorer in 1838 & 1839 of the great northwestern triangle between the Missouri & the upper Mississippi rivers. Author Martha Coleman Bray has founded her very readable story on Nicollet’s journals, survey documents, correspondence,...

Alhacen's Theory of Visual Perception (First Three Books of Alhacen's de Aspectibus), Volume One--Introduction and Latin Text

Sometime between 1028 and 1038, Ibn al-Haytham completed his monumental optical synthesis, Kitab al-Manazir ("Book of Optics"). By no later than 1200, and perhaps somewhat earlier, this treatise appeared in Latin under the title De aspectibus. In that form it was attributed to a certain "Alhacen....

Czechoslovak Heresy and Schism

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Canal or Railroad? Imitation and Innovation in the Response to the Erie Canal in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Boston

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Forming of the Charitable Institutions of the West of England A Study of the Changing Pattern of Social Aspirations in Bristol and Somerset, 1480-1660

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Lower Palaeolithic Cultures of Southern and Eastern Asia

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Optical Magic in the Late Renaissance

Begins with a brief account of Giambattista Della Porta’s life, a review of the genesis of De Refractione, and an examination of the textual sources on which Della Porta drew in composing the book and its analytic narrative. Explains the why and how of this edition and translation of the original...

French Revolution Seen From The Right

This book is the first product of an investigation of the conflicting social theories of the French Revolution. The writings of these men disclosed several unexplored connections between the old regime and the contemporary world. Their testimony offered an unaccustomed view of the French Revoluti...

Preadamite Theory and the Marriage of Science and Religion

Among the harmonizing tactics that have been deployed to keep alive the marriage of science and religion, is the preadamite theory -- the idea that human beings existed before the biblical Adam. This overview of the preadamite attempts to reveal how inter-penetrative scientific and religious disc...

Paleolithic Cultures of Singhbhum

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Excavations in the Tehuantepec Region, Mexico

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Anatomy of Callimico Goeldii (Thomas). A Primitive American Primate

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Studies on Chromosomes and Nuclear Division

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Culture et La Civilisation Britanniques

Contents: Intro.; (1) Organes et agents de liaison intellectuelle entre la Grande-Bretagne et la France; (2) L’appreciation du caractere et des moeurs britanniques; (3) Les aspects de la situation religieuse en Grande-Bretagne; (4) L’interpretation du regime politique d’outre-Manche; (5) Les leco...

Joseph Csaky

Joseph Csaky (1888-1971), a neglected pioneer of early Modernism, was a native of Hungary who became a dedicated member of the Parisian avant-garde. He took part in the 1912 Section d’Or Exhibition, considered by many to mark the high point of the Cubist movement. He was an intimate friend of suc...

The Long Route to the Invention of the Telescope

After the telescope became known in 1608-1609, a number of people in widely separate locations claimed that they had such a device long before the announcement came from The Hague; in the summer of 1608, no one had a telescope, in the summer of 1609, everyone had one. For a number of years author...

Ox That Gored

This is a print on demand publication. The author spent many years collecting the material which forms the basis for this volume which draws on his preliminary studies & adds much new material. When Finkelstein died in Nov. 1974, he left a draft of a comprehensive work on the subject of the g...

Paradoxes of Free Will

Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philos...

Sculpture of Taras

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Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 1 and 2)

The first installment: provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy and other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or ...

Public Organization in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greek city-states typically administered themselves through more or less permanent divisions of their populations or territories. The Athenian system of phylai (“tribes”), trittyes (“Thirds”) & demes (“villages”) is the familiar example, but something is known of the arrangements of a...

Studies on the Marine Pleistocene

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General Tasker Howard Bliss and the “Sessions of the World,” 1919

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Reluctant Author

Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558) left an abundance of manuscripts that have lacked an inventory & description. This monograph is intended to remedy that lack & perhaps contribute to a critical edition of some of his major works, especially “Pro ecclesiasticae unitatis defensione (De uni...

Mace and the Gavel

This is a print on demand publication. When the First Fed. Congress convened in N.Y. City, an urgent priority of the newly formed legis. branch of the gov’t. of the U.S. was formation of its org. It is not surprising that it was formed of two bodies, similar to those of the British Parliament. Ne...