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Archibald Garrod and the Individuality of Man
Students of biology learn that Archibald Garrod (1857-1936) advanced the concept of inborn errors of metabolism through brilliant insights into patients with rare genetic diseases. Garrod’s two other prescient concepts are often overlooked: (1) the concept of the chemical uniqueness of the indivi...
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Bust of Thomas Paine
The first president of The Amer. Philosophical Society (APS), Benjamin Franklin, was favorably impressed with Thomas Paine when he met him in London. Franklin became Paine’s patron and introduced him to America, where Paine arrived in 1774. His pamphlet Common Sense electrified the American peopl...
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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...
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Benjamin Franklin, Swimmer
Using Benjamin Franklin’s love of swimming, this illustrated publication examines his life, times, and strong, inventive personality through a lens that historians have previously overlooked. Through swimming, Franklin interacted with family, friends, and acquaintances and gained entree into Brit...
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Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685
This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France’s Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for ...
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Bio-Bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences Since 1800 (2nd ed.)
Since the publication of the previous version of this work (1982) and a supp. (1985), many books and journal articles have provided info. about persons who have played a role in the develop. of the biochem. sciences during the 19th and 20th cent. Moreover, recent discoveries have called attention...
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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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Systematics and Evolution of the Moinidae
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Alhacen on the Principles of Reflection
This two-volume set is a continuation of A. Mark Smith’s pub. of Ibn al-Haytham’s “De aspectibus,” the most important treatise on optics of the Middle Ages, indeed, the most important treatise prior to the 17th century. This ed. of Alhacen’s text will appeal to those who are interested in medieva...
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Practical Observations of Dropsy of the Chest (Breslau, 1706)
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Recurrent Themes and Sequences in North American Indian-European Culture Contact
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Painful Labor of Mr. Elsyng
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Benjamin Franklin and Eighteenth-Century American Libraries
This print on demand edition of a hard-to-find publication provides a thorough and well-researched history of Benjamin Franklin’s enduring legacy within American libraries. Utilizing a vast array of resources, this book provides a wealth of information and historical context for readers and schol...
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Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh II Museum un Jaipur, India
This catalogue of the astronomical manuscripts preserved at the Maharaja Man Singh Museum provides a substantial part of the foundation for an extensive & penetrating analysis of the astronomical activities of Saw Jayasimha Maharaja from 1700 to 1743. Jayasimha collected Sanskrit manuscripts ...
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Berengario da Carpi On Fracture of the Skull or Cranium
This is a print on demand publication. Berengario da Carpi obtained his doctorate in med. in Bologna in 1489. He was elected to the chair of surgery in 1502 & to that of med. in 1505. In 1508 during an outbreak of plague he was charged by the city gov’t. with combatting its ravages as chief h...
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At the Sign of the Compass and Quadrant
This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A significant although little known figure in the history of early American science is Anthony Lamb, a maker of mathematical instruments who was active in NY from 1730 to 1784. He had been trained in a skill which was rare in his ti...
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Crowner’s Request
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Aleut Dialects of Atka and Attu
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Conseil Prive and the Parlements in the Age of Louis XIV
This vol., while encompassing the entire reign of Louis XIV & all the parlements of the realm, has the narrow focus of investigating the impact of royal policy on the judicial authority of the parlements as revealed in their relations with the king’s councils, notably the one that specialized...
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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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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...
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Climate Crises in Human History
This volume considers the response of selected cultures to climate events that have been documented from the archaeological and geological records. It includes articles by participants in a 2008 conference at the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as well as other...
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Egyptian Planetary Texts
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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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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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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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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
This is a print on demand publication. Gossman maintains that underlying the argument that historiography cannot be subsumed under a poetics or a rhetoric (in the sense of a system of purely linguistic or literary tropes) is a larger claim, namely that a wide range of activities, from literary cr...
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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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