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Parmigianino’s Madonna of the Long Neck
This is a comprehensive overview of Parmigianino’s enigmatic painting of The Madonna of the Long Neck. It treats the subject in terms of iconography, semiotics, studio practice, and art theory. The painting is not merely an example of mannerist extravagance, but that the Virgin in her extraordin...
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Copepodologist's Cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...
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Illumination and Polarization of the Sunlit Sky On Rayleigh Scattering
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Bajo de Santa Fe
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Of Elephants & Roses
This illustrated book explores the fascinating history of the natural sciences in the turbulent years of post-revolutionary and Restoration France, from Empress Josephine’s black swans and rare Franklinia tree to a giraffe that walked 480 miles across France to greet the king. It is the catalogue...
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Flight of Birds. The Significant Dimensions, Their Departure from the Requirements for Dimensional Similarity, and the Effect on Flight Aerodynamics of that Departure
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 17, Part 3, 1893
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Oxford Collection of the Drawings of Roger de Gaignieres and the Royal Tombs of Saint-Denis
In the late 17th and early 18th cent., Francois-Roger de Gaignieres (FRG) amassed an impressive collection of drawings of the tombs and other monuments of France. That collection is today divided between the Bodleian Lib. in Oxford and the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN) in Paris. Ironically, the 16 ...
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Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson
Alexander Wilson, expatriate Scotsman, poet, & reformer, has been called “the Father of American Ornithology.” This collection of his letters, many of them new & many complete for the first time, captures a splendid & stimulating time in American history. Wilson was a confidant of Wil...
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Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898
Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any prev...
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North by Degree
In this vol. of papers on the history of late 19th- and early 20th-century Arctic exploration, the authors have examined the social, cultural, technological, and environmental settings in which exploration endeavors were conceived, carried out, described, and understood by the public. The confere...
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Astronomy and the Geophysical Tradition in the United States in the 19th Century
This bibliography was compiled by Frederik Nebeker, Mellon Fellow in Bibliography for 1988-89, who unearthed a wealth of material in the manuscript collections and archives of the APS documenting the life and work of 181 American scientists in the fields of astronomy and the “geophysical traditio...
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Franz Boas and W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University, 1906
The papers of William Shedrick Willis (1921-1983), housed at the APS, include his drafts of the manuscript “Boas Goes to Atlanta.” They contain the fascinating story of Franz Boas’s visit to Atlanta Univ. in 1906, and more, because Willis intended the work to be a book on Boas’s work in black ant...
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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...
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Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
On the basis of newly-discovered Russian and British archival sources, Prof. Kaplan makes important scholarly contributions to 18th-cent. economic history. He demonstrates that there was not only a symbiotic economic relationship between Russia and Great Britain, but also that Russia contributed ...
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Morphology of the Skull of the Pelycosaurian Genus Dimetrodon
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Sculpture of Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Their Workshop
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Transfer of Early Industrial Technologies to America
Contents: Part I: A Survey: The Transfer of Industrial Technologies to Early America; Part II: Case Studies: William Weston, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the Philadelphia Plan for Internal Improvements; Eleuthere Irenee du Pont: “Eleve des Poudres” to American Gunpowder Manufacturer; Moncure Robin...
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John Lyon, Nurseryman and Plant Hunter, and His Journal, 1799-1814
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Young Humphry Davy
Humphry Davy’s contemporaries bestowed on him their highest honors. Since Davy’s death in 1829, each scholarly generation has accrued info. about him & his colleagues. His startling discoveries of the scientifically novel, his isolation & identification of 7 new elements, & his associ...
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Against Time
Johannes Hoeber left Nazi Germany for America on Nov. 12, 1938. His wife Elfriede & their 9-year-old daughter Susanne were unable to leave until Sept. 1939. Fifty years, later Johannes & Elfriede’s son found an old folder containing the long letters they exchanged during the many months t...
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The Other Presidency
In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s first learned society and one dedicated to promoting new research in t...
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Architecture and Urbanization in Colonial Chiapas, Mexico
Covers colonial architecture in the two westernmost provinces of the Reino de Guatemala: Audiencia & Capitania General -- a region largely isolated from the rest of Central America & Mexico until recent times. The buildings of this region (known as Chiapas) reflect the soc. that produced ...
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Franklin's Father Josiah
Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler and soapmaker, remains a marginal figure in most biographies of his well-known son, Benjamin Franklin, due largely to a lack of written documentation. Biographers of Franklin included him mainly from a genealogical viewpoint, and few of them gave him further att...
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Prehistoric Research in Afghanistan (1959-1966)
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Dal Pozzo-Albani Drawings of Classical Antiquities in the British Museum
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Al-Kashi's Geographical Tables
Jamshid Ghyath al-Din al-Kashi (fl. 1420), a native of central Iran, worked at the Samarqand observatory of Sultan Ulugh Beg, grandson of Tamerlane. Kashi is best known as a virtuoso of computational mathematics, but he was also a competent astronomer. Among his major works is the “Zij-i Khaqani,...
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Painted Pottery of the Near East in the Second Millennium B.C. and its Chronological Background
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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...
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Town of San Felipe and Colonial Cacao Economics
Contrary to the contention of the “dependentistas,” the cacao export-led economy of the 18th century province of Caracas did not behave as an enclave economy. An analysis of the quantitative data suggests that from its beginning in the 17th century to its boom in the 18th century, the caco econom...
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Cristobal Rojas y Spinola, Cameralist and Irenicist 1626-1695
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 4, 1799
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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Queen Mary Psalter
Illuminated manuscripts are among the more intimate works of art surviving from the medieval period. The Queen Mary Psalter (c. 1316?-21) has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding English Gothic manuscripts. Its devotional texts are framed by an encyclopedic series of narrative imag...
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Patriot-Improvers
When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. In this “first systematic attempt to collect and ...
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The Tribute Roll of Montezuma
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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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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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 ...
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Francis Bacon and Scientific Poetry
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Poetry, Knowledge, & Scientific Poetry; Epistemology vs. Poetics in Bacon; Bacon & the Presocratic Poet-philosophers; Bacon & Lucretius; Bacon’s Science & Virgil’s Poetry; & Conclusion: Poetic Language & Scientific Discourse.
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Privy Council and the Spirit of Elizabethan Economic Management, 1558-1603
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Polar Hayes
In the mid-19th century, Dr. Isaac Israel Hayes was a member of the Amer. arctic expedition under the command of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane in search of the lost British explorer Sir John Franklin. Through his own hard fought experiences, combined with the knowledge learned from Polar Eskimos, he succ...
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Oligocene Rodents of North America
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Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the French Revolution
Harvey Chisick wrote this study after he came across the documents that form the heart of this study, the subscription lists to the the newspaper the “Ami du Roi”, by accident while working on a a comparative study of the “Anne Litteraire” & “Journal Encyclopedique.” Contents of this vol.: Th...
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The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs, 1896
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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...
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Abbot Joachim of Fiore
This is a Print On Demand Publication. Contents: Introduction; The Life of Abbot Joachim; The Structure and Purpose of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Date of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Tables and Figures; The Two “Diffinitiones”; The Manuscripts of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Manuscript Famil...
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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...
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“Godded with God”
This is a print on demand publication. The Family of Love, the name by which the disciples of Hendrik Niclaes were known in England, must certainly pique the curiosity of almost anyone. The name together with the reputation for loose living and absurd theological pretensions that attached to the ...
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Monguors of the Kansu-Tibetan Frontier. Part III. Record of the Monguor Clans. History of the Monguors in Huangchung & the Chronicles of the Lu Family
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Gears from the Greeks
Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy o...
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Changing Africa
This is a print on demand Publication. Scholars have been curious about the development of arts & letters in Africa since the last European colonies on that continent attained independence in 1975. On Cape Verde, the Portuguese entered into close relations with Black Africa, represented by en...
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Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) and Anton Dohrn (1840-1909)
In 1869 Anton Dohrn wrote to Karl Ernst von Baer to enlist his help in supporting the Stazione Zoologica that would soon be set up in Naples. This was the first of an exchange of 36 letters between Anton Dohrn and von Baer that constitutes the principal portion of this correspondence; there is a...
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Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII
Examines the commission of the Vatican tomb of Pope Alexander VIII Ottoboni by his great-nephew Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. Although neglected for centuries, the Ottoboni monument occupies the most strategic liturgical position in the complex of tombs in the Vatican basilica. It is impressive in sc...
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Chindali and English Dictionary with an Index to Proto-Bantu Roots
Chindali is a Bantu language of eastern Africa, spoken in the southwest Mbeya region of Tanzania and in the northern Chitipa District of Malawi. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 in Tanzania. In Malawi, not only are there varieties known as Chindali, but also the closely relat...
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Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the American Philosophical Society
Commemorating the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society (APS), Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the American Philosophical Society is a thought-provoking reissue of the 1843 Proceedings volume, which was published to celebrate the centennial of APS’s founding. Complet...
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Nino Pirrotta
As a scholarly discipline and doctoral-level univ. course, musicology (the academic study of music in its historical and anthropological contexts) is about a century old. This is the first full-scale portrait of one of musicology’s most distinguished practitioners. Nino Pirrotta (1908-98) was edu...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 2, 1825
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D.
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Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont
This study concerns the aboriginal occupation of North Carolina. In 1934, the prehistory of the Piedmont lay in the ground, and the archaeology of the Southeastern U.S. was in its infancy. Since that time, remarkable progress has been made in archaeological research, and the basic patterns of cul...
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Benjamin Franklin on The Art of Eating
This limited special edition of the 1958 original was published to celebrate the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society. It contains an essay by eminent American-French scholar and historian, Gilbert Chinard, and an introduction by former Assistant Librarian and Curator of Printe...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 15, Part 2, 1875
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Infidel Scourge of God
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Census of the Determinable Genera of the Stegocephalia
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Life of Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558)
When a certain Mark Anthony of the famous Italian family of the Roveres arrived in Agen, in SW France, in the second decade of the 16th century, he brought along with him his personal physician, Master Julius Caesar, who had been under the protection of his family for some time. This latter was a...
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Mycenae Tablets II; With An Introduction by Alan J.B. Wace and Elizabeth B. Wace; Translations and Commentary by John Chadwick
The excavators of Mycenae added in 1953 and 1954 important new materials to the small but excellent archives of Mycenae. It was primarily to publish these that the present edition of the Mycenaean texts from Mycenae was undertaken. Contents: Intro.: The Discovery of the Tablets; The Residential Q...
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Criminal Syndicalism and the Law in California
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Princess and the Patriot
In 1782, Princess Ekaterina Dashkova was appointed dir. of Russia’s Imperial Acad. of Arts & Sci. by Catherine the Great. It was just two years after she had met with another personality of the Enlightenment -- Benjamin Franklin, founding pres. of Amer. first scientific acad., the Amer. Philo...
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Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water -- or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th cent. being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th cent. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tr...
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Dissertations on the Mechanics of Effervescence and Fermentation, and on the Mechanics of the Movement of the Muscles by Johan Bernoulli
The two “physico-mechanical” dissertations by the Swiss mathematician Johan Bernoulli, “On Effervescence and Fermentation” and “On the Movement of Muscles,” published here for the first time in English translation by Paul Maquet, are treatises belonging to the 17th century European academic tradi...
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A Life for Water
Luna Leopold (1915-2006) is widely viewed as the foremost student of rivers of the 20th century. This illustrated volume presents a selection of informal essays written over the course of his long career. These essays complement his professional articles and books, and they illustrate how he beca...
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Ptolemy's Theory of Visual Perception
This is a print on demand Publication. This is a reprint, this is not an original. Contents: Introduction; Ptolemy: A Biographical Sketch; The “Optics”: A Biographical Sketch; An Overview of the “Optics”; The Historical Influence of the “Optics”; English Translation; & Bibliography. The Engli...
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Isidore of Seville
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Maurus of Salerno
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Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho
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My Life in Germany Before and after January 30, 1933
This collection of memoirs by refugees from Nazi Germany is a rich source of autobiographical information on the Nazi era. Housed at Houghton Library of Harvard University, it consists of 263 files containing the memoirs of approximately 230 people who lived in Germany or Austria during the 1930s...
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Fighting for the Good Cause
Sir Francis Galton was an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics from 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution -- that he provided sufficien...
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Crime and Aggression in Changing Ceylon
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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...
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Medieval Theories of the Just Price. Romanists, Canonists, and Theologians in the 12th and 13th Centuries
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Later Roman Colonate and Freedom
The aim of the research in this study is not to create a new theory of the origin of the colonate, but to show the circumstances surrounding it & to discover to what measure these contributed to reducing free tenants to a position where they did not dare to leave the land they tilled -- land ...
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Transformation of the British Liberal Party
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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...
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Fernando of Cordova
Part charlatan, part “Wunderkind,” & part learned scholastic, Fernando of Cordova burst upon the European scene in 1444-1446 when he traveled to different parts of Europe. He astounded audiences by his command of the subject matter in all univ. subjects, his mastery of oriental lang., his ski...
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Ideas of Religious Toleration at the Time of Joseph II. A Study of the Enlightenment Among Catholics in Austria
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Passion of George Sarton
George Sarton animated the discipline of history of science (HoS) in America. This vol. traces his youth & educ. in Belgium, & his marriage to Mabel Elwes. It follows the Sarton’s in their path from idealistic refugees fleeing the invasion of Belgium in 1914 to destitute intellectuals at ...
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Velocity of Light
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Northern Light and Northern Times
Swedish biomedical researchers were important in the early development of the study of biological rhythms in the mid-20th century. This study looks at the foundation of biological-rhythm research (today called “chronobiology”). The first international society (Society for the Study of Biological ...
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Justice in Medieval Russia
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Style, Classification and Ethnicity
This is a print on demand publication. Cognitive psychologists are now suggesting that there are two kinds of features which people use in the recognition & classifiation process.The first are very basic properties which have been studied by experimental psychologists. The second are object-s...
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Classification and Development of North American Indian Cultures
This is a print on demand publication. This correlation analysis of the cultural data in the Driver-Massey sample includes both tribe by tribe (Q-type) & trait by trait (R-type) comparisons of 392 culture traits among 245 tribes. The tribes were chosen to match the North American part of Murd...
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Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL.D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man
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Excavations in the Tehuantepec Region, Mexico
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Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567)
Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was one of the foremost medical writers of his day, ranked by his contemporaries alongside Andreas Vesalius, reformer of anatomical studies, and Paracelsus, radical reformer of theories of disease and treatment. He is arguably the leading expositor of the Galenic system of...
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Plains Cree
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Purveyance for the Royal Household in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth
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Annotated Collection of Mongolian Riddles
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Sporting with the Classics
Focuses on the original Latin poetry of William Dillingham, a 17th-cent. editor, and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge Univ. It does so in an attempt to disprove claims that Dillingham’s talent lay in criticism rather than in original composition, and that his Latin verse shows his complete independen...
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Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author’s previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles’ median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to eme...
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Native Writings in Massachusett (2 volume Set)
An edition of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Basic linguistic, historical, and ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally and in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Ma...
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Journey on the Forbidden Path
This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, ...
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Spreading the Word
A disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world - -Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded after the Treaty of Union in 1707, by men, often of humble origin, from “north of the borde...
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