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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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Asclepius of tralles
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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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Alhacen on refraction
Alhacen’s treatment of light and sight in the “De aspectibus” culminates with the analysis of refraction in book 7. Far briefer than his account of reflection, which occupies three books, Alhacen’s study of refraction follows essentially the same pattern of analysis, starting with various experim...
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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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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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Report of the pennsylvania local government survey
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Benjamin franklin in american thought and culture, 1790-1990
How Benjamin Franklin’s life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular cultureA teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard’s Almanac and later helped shape th...
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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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Prussia in transition
Contents: (I) The Stein Ministry in Historical Perspective: Hero History and Beyond; (II) Social Change and a New Ideology Confront Prussia’s Old Regime; (III) Optimism Springs From Crisis: The Reform Party; (IV) Bureaucratic Change and Accommodation of the Aristocracy; (V) Government by Property...
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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 ...
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The secular variations of the elements of the orbits of the four inner planets computed for the epoch 1850.0 g. m. t.
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French secondary education 1763-1790
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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...
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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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Physiognomics in the ancient world
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Some assumptions of aristotle
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Naskapi law
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Arc spectrum of iron
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From elements to atoms
Seeking to enlarge an understanding of the nature of chemical science & explain how the concepts being taught in the classroom came to be, Siegfried presents a simple, readable account of how in the 18th cent. chemical composition slowly abandoned the centuries- long tradition of metaphysical...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part i. insectivora and carnivora
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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...
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Library of benjamin franklin
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio’l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin’s library were virtually unknown unti...
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Spectrum of beta lyrae
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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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Kwakiutl grammar
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Search for a new voltaire
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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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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...
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Coppers of the northwest coast indians
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) The Use & Meaning of Coppers in the Period Between 1860-1920; Coppers; Environmental Conditions; Cosmologies; Social Structure; Meanings Attributed to Copper; The Roles of Coppers in Each of the 5 Societies; Comparison of Coppers & Thei...
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Juristic basis of dynastic right to the french throne
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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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Charles willson peale with patron and populace. a supplement to portraits and miniatures by charles willson peale
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Origins of small business metal fabricators and machinery makers in new england, 1890-1957
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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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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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Canal or railroad? imitation and innovation in the response to the erie canal in philadelphia, baltimore, and boston
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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...
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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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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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Studies in byzantine astronomical terminology
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Jovellanos and his english sources
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Review of the splendid perches, callanthias (percoidei: callanthiidae)
The family Callanthiidae contains two genera, Callanthias (with seven species) and Grammatonotus (with six nominal species). Authors William D. Anderson, Jr., G. David Johnson, and Carole C. Baldwin provide characters that distinguish callanthiids from other percoids and that distinguish Callanth...
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Scientific papers of james logan
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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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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
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Continuations of the old french perceval of chrétien de troyes. 5
Contents: Introduction: The Manuscripts, The Redactions, Plan of this Vol., Outline of the Second Continuation; Text of Manuscript A; Text of Manuscript E; Textual Notes; Appendix; Index of Proper Names; Errata and Corrigenda in Vols. I, II and III.
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Bellievre, sully, and the assembly of notables 1596
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Petroglyphs of western colorado and the northern ute indian reservation as interpreted by clifford duncan
Clifford Duncan, a Northern Ute elder, believed in educating the public to know and understand the meaning of Ute petroglyphs. By doing this, he believed it would help to preserve and protect them. Over the course of eight years, Clifford and the author visited and revisited all of these sites, d...
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The mammalian fauna of the white river oligocene: part v. perissodactyla
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Nikolaos masarites
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Jean-sylvain bailly, astronomer, mystic, revolutionary
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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...
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Theodore roosevelt and his english correspondents
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Surgeons and something more
Biographical sketches of the nineteen chairmen who have guided the evolution of the University of Pennsylvania’s medical school and surgery department, America’s first, from 1765 to the present dayIn Surgeons and Something More, Clyde F. and Elizabeth D. Barker chronicle the evolution of the Univ...
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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...
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Woolsey sisters of new york
This is a print on demand publication. The three Woolsey Sisters, Abby, Jane, & Georgeanna, were pioneers in the development of nursing service & education after the Civil War. In her research, author Anne L. Austin discovered that nursing was but one of the fields of social welfare in wh...
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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...
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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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Irish revolutionists and american patriot
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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 ...
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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...
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Planetary, lunar, and solar positions, new and full moons, a.d. 1650-1805
These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman’s “Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1” and “A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649” and Goldstine’s “Ne...
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Surveying the record
Papers given at a conference on Scientific Exploration in North America to 1930 with topics including Cartography, Oceanic Exploration, Art, Anthropology, Lewis and Clark, and the West. This book adds much to our quest for knowledge of who and where we are by illuminating such themes as the role ...
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Franklin the diplomat
This is a print on demand publication. This study looks at how Benjamin Franklin approached his job as a diplomat & evaluates his performance. It is restricted to the wartime years of Franklin’s French mission & concentrates on the activities author Dull considers most important. To illum...
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Travels in georgia and florida
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Biographical memoirs of members of the american philosophical society
The distinguished physicians featured in this volume were all members of the American Philosphical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in America. The biographical memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama in the evolution of medicine during the 18th, 19th and e...
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Cultural sequences at the dalles, oregon; a contribution to pacific northwest prehistory
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Additions to the pleistocene mammal faunas of south carolina, north carolina, and georgia
The Southeastern area of the U.S. is one of the richest vertebrate fossil localities on the east coast of North America & was recognized as such by Louis Agassiz during his first visit to Charleston in 1847 when he saw the first collection of fossils accumulated by local planter Francis Holme...
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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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France and the arab middle east
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Towards a rational historiography
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Dante and the book of the cosmos
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Master nicholas of dresden
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Klamath prehistory
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Surface survey of the northern valley of mexico
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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...
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Orpheus philologus
This is print on demand publication. Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential and successful “Romische Geschichte” (1854), he was the object of the passionate and enduring hatred of an obscure Swiss philologist in the provincial ...
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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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Inscriptions of kourion
T.B. Mitford presents a comprehensive study of all known inscriptions from the ancient city of Kourion on the island of Cyprus. These date from the 7th, perhaps the 8th cent. B.C., through the Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Roman periods, to the early Byzantine era. The finds are fully illu...
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Austro-slav revival
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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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Religion and industrial society
This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & p...
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Study of the brains of six eminent scientists and scholars belonging to the amer. anthropometric soc., together with a description of the skull of prof. e. d. cope
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Practical geometry in the high middle ages
Contents: (I) The Place of Practical Geometry in the Middle Ages: The Nature of Practical Geometry; Practical Geometry in Education; Theory and Practice in Geometry; and Practical Geometry and Practical Concerns; (II) The Contents of “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio” and the “Pratike de geometrie”; ...
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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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John milton among the neapolitans
John Milton’s 100-line hexameter poem Mansus is, on first impression, merely a poem of praise for Giovanni Battista Manso, the old Neapolitan nobleman and patron of poets whom Milton met on his Italian journey in 1638–1639. But in the first book devoted solely to Mansus, arguably the most accompl...
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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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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...
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Late ancient and medieval population
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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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Diary of a journey through the carolinas, georgia, and florida, from july 1, 1765, to april 10, 1766
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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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Maya city planning and the calendar
This is a print on demand publication. Why do people orient buildings the way they do? That the depiction of the cardinal directions of space had something to do with events taking place in the sky is suggested by cosmological diagrams derived from the civilizations of ancient Mexico. Contents: ...
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England and the north
Aleksei Ziuzin’s embassy to London in November 1613 added a new dimension to James I’s schemes for an alliance with the Protestant kingdoms of the north. Editors Jansson, Bushkovitch, and Rogozhin have divided their study into 3 sections -- a long historical introduction, Ziuzin’s account of the ...
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Benjamin franklin's first government printing
Among the items acquired in 1996 by Jay Snider, the collector of printed Americana, are 278 partially printed, early Pennsylvania mortgage forms. The royal folio forms are bound together, as issued, in full calf stamped with tools thought to have belond to William Davies, a bookbinder who flouris...
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Arabic version of ptolemy’s planetary hypotheses
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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 ...
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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...
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Monastic reform in lorraine and the architecture of the outer crypt, 950-1100
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