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...

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...

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”; ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Monastic Reform in Lorraine and the Architecture of the Outer Crypt, 950-1100

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Mammalia of the Duchesne River Oligocene

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Wittich Connection

Contents: Introduction; (1) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Wittich; Tycho’s Attempts to Acquire Wittich’s Library; & The Prague Tychoniana; (2) Wittich’s Copernican Annotations: Reinhold’s Annotations &...

Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography

Contents: Section 1: The Geographical Concepts: Boundaries in Arabo-Islamic Cartography; and Boundaries in the Arabo-Islamic Geographic and Historical Texts; Section 2: Travelers’ Experiences at Internal Boundaries, the Area Concept in Arabo-Islamic Geography, and the Relation of Zone-Boundaries ...

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...

Preliminary Consideration of Aboriginal Australian Decorative Art

Invention of the Telescope

Ours is an age of science and technology, based on precision instruments. The first such device to strengthen our feeble human senses in our striving to comprehend the strange and elusive universe around us was the telescope. Cornelis de Waard, in his “De uitvinding der verrekijkers” (The Hague, ...

Between East and West

Up to & including the Age of Discoveries, the wealth of the East was thought in Europe to consist primarily of spices & aromatics. Cloves, nutmeg, mace, & sandalwood all were thought to come from a few small islands in easternmost Indonesia, which no European reached before 1500. Yet ...

Joseph Hume

When Scotsman Joseph Hume died in 1855 his contemporaries assumed he would be remembered as one of the most important politicians of his time. He was a champion of free-trade principles & radical reform. Though Hume never held office, he was in the forefront of nearly every major reform endea...

Edward T. Cardwell: Peelite

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Gabriele Zerbi, Gerontocomia

Gabriele Zerbi (1445-1505), born in Verona of an old patrician family, was a remarkable medical man & anatomists of his time. He probably studied at the University at Padua, where he began to teach medicine in 1467, having obtained the doctorate at the age of 22. He then taught medicine &...

Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley

This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Price, Priestley, & the English Millennialist Tradition; The Political Millennialism of Price & Priestley; The Modes & Language of Republican Millennialism; The Country Program & Millennial Expectations; Revolution, the Millennium, ...

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...

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...

English Customs Service, 1307-1343

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Persecution of Peter Olivi

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A Late Cretaceous Dinosaur & Reptile Assemblage from South Carolina, USA

Describes a new assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile remains from Campanian and Maastrichtian deposits of eastern South Carolina (SC). Six of the 14 localities include new occurrences of theropod and hadrosaur dinosaurs, substantially increasing the known localities in the eastern U...

City-Building Process

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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 3, 1793

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

Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295

This vol. provides a new analysis of the sources concerning the clash between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Indeed, any attempt to study the constitutional and political position of the French clergy during the critical years at the turn of the 13th century must include an assessment of the ...

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

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Chromosomes in the Spermatogenesis of the Hemiptera Heteroptera

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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...

Postglacial Forest Succession, Climate, and Chronology in the Pacific Northwest

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Lienzo of Tulancingo, Oaxaca

History, especially ancient history, gains reality when it can be related to modern geography. The interplay appears in instances cited throughout this study -- specifically of Mexican geographical identifications that help recover segments of the country’s pre-Columbia past. This study’s princip...

“Tabula Antidotarii“ of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew Translation

Armengaud Blaise or Blaise (d. 1312), a nephew of the celebrated medieval medical & theological figure Arnau de Vilanova (d.1311), is becoming better known, thanks in large part to the documentation preserved in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon. Armengaud became a practicing physician and w...

James Hutton’s Medical Dissertation

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Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1, at Five-Day and Ten Day Intervals

The need for these tables became pressing when hundreds of astronomical cuneiform tables in the British Museum became available for study, partly through the copies made in the 1880s and 1890s. All these texts originally came from some archive in Babylon which was discovered by Arabs in the middl...

Natakalaksanarantnakosa of Sagaranandin

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Kos Between Hellenism and Rome

Contents: The Historical Interpretation of Segre, I. Cos, ED 229 & the Perils of Koan Security & Free Status from the 2nd Cretan War (ca. 155-153 B.C.) to the Aftermath of the First Mithridatic War (89-55 B.C.); The Evidence of the “Lex Fonteia” (Crawford, RS, 36) & the Period of M. A...

Earthworks

In this inspiring volume, Rosanna Warren chronologically arranges poems selected from her four published collections of poetry. She places the poetry “under the protection of two poetry saints: William Blake and Hart Crane,” and convincingly reminds us that “poems have work to do: to bear witness...

Preceramic Settlement on the Central Coast of Peru

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Fish Skulls

The vast and scattered literature of ichthyology contains hundreds of figures and descriptions of the skulls of teleost fishes, both recent and fossil. This collection of drawings of teleost skulls attempts a new review of the field as a whole, with special reference to problems of evolution. Con...

Foundations of English Bankruptcy

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Gaetano Filangieri and His Science of Legislation

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German Socialist Party

Of all the political parties in German history none was more ambivalent than the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Beneath the misleading surplice of Marxism, the SDP was basically only a lower class reformist party. This study shows that, far from continuing revolution, very realistic, ordinary goa...

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 1, 1769-1771 (First Edition)

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

Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, CA 800-1500

Early medieval astronomy, esp. in the era of Charlemagne & his successors, consisted of texts that went far beyond the boundaries of computus, which modern scholars have long believed to be the only significant context for astronomical studies of that time. The texts contained innovative diag...

Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler

Kepler is remembered for the 3 laws of planetary motion known after him. Rejecting the view of those who regarded astronomical hypotheses as mathematical fictions, he sought to derive the true motions of the planets from physical causes. Yet he combined his search for physical causes with a visio...

Forgotten Leaders in Modern Medicine

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Peiresc’s History of Provence

This is both a historical detective work -- piecing together an innovative research project of the 1620s -- and a provocative argument, based on the reconstruction of Peiresc’s project. Our understanding of the history of historical scholarship needs to be turned upside down. In the “how” and “w...

Theater of Man

Born in Spain and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rheto...

Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle

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Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries

This is a print on demand publication. This study developed in the course of preparing a collection of all the epigraphical evidence relating to the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The author soon realized that many problems connected with the priesthoods could be treated more convenien...

Ancient Khmer Empire

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Leitourgia Papyri

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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...

Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes

Describes & analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion (TOR) & the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries. Emphasizes the influence of Christian missions (CM) to the Ojibwas in effecting religious changes, & examines the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture & environ...

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

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

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

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Beyond Combat

Contents: Emancipation, Black Troops, & Hard War, by J. Paradis; A Reinterpretation of Sherman’s Generalship during the 1864 March to Atlanta in Light of the Logistic Strategy, by J. Britt McCarley; The U.S. Navy & the Genesis of Maritime Education, by J. Speelman; U.S. Military Attaches ...

Lewis Evans and His American Philosophical Society

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Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry

Behind the original pubication of Montgomery’s “Practical Detail” (1840) lay the continuing concern about world markets & international economic & technological leadership. Montgomery’s achievement lay in the wealth & reliability of the comparative data he assembled, for the first tim...

Time to Heal

In the 19th century, Joseph Lister related the germ theory of fermentation to the cause of putrefaction in wounds. Listerism was adopted because its success was greater and more consistent than other methods of healing the sick. The circumstances which made this possible were a theory for explain...

Pottery of Marajo Island, Brazil

This study represents the culmination of some 15 years of research in the field of Amazonian archeology. Ilha de Marajo, as the Brazilians call it, has been described as resting in the mouth of the Amazon like an egg in that of a serpent. In reality, Marajo is part of an archipelago. Contents of ...

Archaeology of the Lower Tapajos Valley, Brazil

Contents: Geographical notes; Historical notes; Tapajo civilization; Archaeological sites; The archaeology: Pottery, and Stone; Stylistic Characteristics of Tapajo ceramics; Correlation chart; Summary; Appendix and Collection references; Bibliography. Black and white plates. This is a print on de...

F. A. Smitt, Marine Bryozoa, and the Introduction of Darwin Into Sweden

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Respiration and the Lavoisier Tradition

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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...

Nalarayadavadanticarita (Adventures of King Nala and Davadanti)

The Nalarayadavadanticarita is an Old Gujarati rendition of the Jain parallel to the Nala-Damayanti story of the Mahabharata. As with other parallel Jain, Hindu, & Buddhist stories & motifs, the work has many unique features, since the Jain story-teller employed it for the edifying presen...

Planned Invasion of Japan, 1945

The massive invasion of Japan planned for Nov., 1945 required accurate knowledge of the weather conditions that moved across the Japanese Islands from Siberia. The U.S. Navy MOKO Expedition was sent to Siberia to forecast the weather for the invasion forces. The MOKO Expedition arrived in Siberia...

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...

Universal Bach

This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in ...

Never-Ceasing Search

Frank Schmitt has for two thirds of a century been searching for -- and in many cases finding -- explanations of major biomedical importance. His is a very human story -- of a youth in high school doing experiments in a make-shift chemical laboratory in the attic of the family home; of a young un...

Networks

Inspired by the American Philosophical Society’s digitization of Benjamin Franklin’s postal records and by its involvement in “The Cybernetics Thought Collective: A History of Science and Technology Portal Project,” this book is based on a symposium that considered the different ways that social,...

The Route of Columbus along the North Coast of Haiti, and the Site of Navidad

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Lonaconing Journals

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Eleven-digit Regular Sexagesimals and Their Recipricols

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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...