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Planetary, lunar, and solar positions, a.d. 2 to a.d. 1649, at five-day and ten-day intervals
These tables for A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649 are an extension, with some improvements, of earlier ones for 601 B.C. to A.D. 1. As before, they give the geocentric positions (tropic celestial longitudes & latitudes, i.e. with respect to the mean equinox of date), in units of 0 degrees.01 for the Sun &...
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Documentary history of the problem of fall from kepler to newton
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Ideology and politics on the eve of restoration
Among the Clarendon papers held by the Bodleian Library and the Portland Manuscripts appear copies of a long and detailed letter of advice written to Charles II on the eve of the Restoration. The “Advice” was atributed to Edwad Hyde, Earl of Clarendon and Lord Chancellor during the early years of...
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Culture et la civilisation britanniques
Contents: Intro.; (1) Organes et agents de liaison intellectuelle entre la Grande-Bretagne et la France; (2) L’appreciation du caractere et des moeurs britanniques; (3) Les aspects de la situation religieuse en Grande-Bretagne; (4) L’interpretation du regime politique d’outre-Manche; (5) Les leco...
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Toleration and diplomacy
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Spirit of inquiry in the age of jefferson
In commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society’s (APS) founding and birth of its long-time President, Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826), The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson assembles numerous scholarly publications and expert inputs that explore the history o...
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Guide to francis galton’s english men of science
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History of the pelycosauria, with a description of the genus dimetrodon, cope
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Confucian feminist
The autobiographical memoirs of Zeng Baosun, an extraordinary Chinese woman who was a pioneer in promoting education for girls & Christian values, are expertly translated & adapted by Thomas Kennedy. The commentary recounts Zeng Baosun's life & education, from her studies abroad, to h...
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Emil von behring
In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in med. for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era and its develop. generated procedures for testing, standardizing, and re...
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Ripon minster
This is a print on demand publication. Ripon Cathedral, anciently one of the four minsters of the archdiocese of York, England, was designated a cathedral when the new diocese of Ripon was created in 1836. In the history of architecture it is properly known as Ripon Minster, a collegiate foundati...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 14, part 3, 1871
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Raising kane
Here is the cultural biography of Elisha Kane, a sickly physician, who transformed himself into an internationally celebrated Arctic explorer and author before his untimely death in 1857. This book is an important reinterpretation of the life of a prototypically American figure. Following Kane’s ...
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Cosmic harmony and political thinking in early stuart england
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Plant colonization studies on black wastes from [anthracite] mining in pennsylvania
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Organized business and the myth of the china market
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Evils of necessity
Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney and U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina and Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South’s leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House W...
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Luther’s pastors
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Medical ethics of medieval islam with special reference to al-ruhawi practical ethics of the physician
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Power, authority, and the origins of american denominational order
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City-building process
Revised Transactions 68-5 (1978).
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Studies on the marine pleistocene
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Medieval agriculture, the southern french countryside, and the early cistercians
This is a print on demand publication. A study of medieval ag., of the rural world of southern France, & of the early corporate farms of the new religious order of Citeaux, founded in Burgundy in 1098 & imported into southern France in the mid-12th cent. It is a study of the agriculture &...
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Saros cycle dates and related babylonian astronomical texts
These texts are probably from Babylon, although their exact provenance is unknown. All concern luni-solar phenomena with the exception of a text on the last visibility of Mercury, which is found on one side of a tablet whose other side deals with lunar eclipse magnitudes & longitudes. The tex...
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Transactions of the american philosophical society, vol 9, 1845-1846
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Abbe correa in america, 1812-1820. the contributions of the diplomat and natural philosopher to the foundations of our national life
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Food stamp plan
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French revolution seen from the right
This book is the first product of an investigation of the conflicting social theories of the French Revolution. The writings of these men disclosed several unexplored connections between the old regime and the contemporary world. Their testimony offered an unaccustomed view of the French Revoluti...
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Rothschilds and the gold rush
In this extraordinary monograph, Constable chronicles the month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter cash transactions and other business between the Rothschild ownership and their agents in Sacramento, Benjamin Davidson and Heinrich Schliemann. Presents a case study embracing both the macroeconomics of ...
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Vascular flora of pennsylvania
The PA Flora Database (PFD) has its roots in the work of Edgar Wherry, John Fogg, Jr., and Herbert Wahl, the “Atlas of the Flora of PA”, pub. by the Morris Arboretum of the Univ. of PA. Over a period of 40 years, Wherry and his colleagues gathered data from the major PA herbaria and manually plac...
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Cape gelidonya
This book forms the final report of the underwater excavation which the author directed at Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, in 1960, for the Univ. Museum of the Univ. of PA. The formation of such a novel excavation, involving divers and equipment from five countries, took an unusual amount of paperwork. T...
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Shaftesbury and the deist manifesto
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David ramsay, 1749-1815. selections from his writings
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Hebrew medical astrology
The “Kelal Qatan (Concise Summary)” was composed by David Ben Yom Tov, a Hebrew scholar who lived in the first half of the 14th century. He is known in Latin simply as David Iudaeus. This is a text on medical astrology, dealing primarily with the astrological indications pertaining especially to ...
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Certificates of transmission on a manuscript of the maqamat of hariri (ms. cairo, adab, 105)
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Collection boulliau (bn, ff. 13019-13059)
The life & career of Ismael Boulliau virtually spanned the century of genius. An accomplished astronomer, mathematician, & classical scholar, Boulliau was an activist in the cause of Scientific Revolution. His voluminous correspondence placed him at the heart of one of the largest intelli...
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Czechoslovak heresy and schism
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History of american ornithology before audubon
A historical study of American ornithology before the arrival of Audubon, this comprehensive work is a must-have for any student of natural history. It traces ancient bird lore from ancient Greece to colonial bird observations in America to conclude with early American Republic key figures. Compa...
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Indoeuropean classification
The lexicostatistical method is frequently used to gain information about family trees of languages which are not accessible in study by more traditional methods. The first & major purpose of this work is to validate the lexicostatistical method by presenting the classification it yields for ...
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“to do justice to him and myself”
This first English translation of a richly detailed Dutch account book on fur trade with Native Americans yields essential data for understanding the workings of the intercultural commerce in colonial North America. This is print on demand edition of a hard-to-find publication contains accounts o...
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Diplomacy of the mexican empire, 1863-1867
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Greek horoscopes
This is a print on demand publication. What we know about Greek astronomy is dominated by Ptolemy’s “Almagest” (written c. 140 A.D.) & closely related works like Theon’s “Handy Tables” (end of 4th C.) but we have only very little info. about the practice of computing the positions of sun, moo...
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Anatomy of callimico goeldii (thomas). a primitive american primate
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Tom paine's iron bridge
In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was ...
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Early history of the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters and of pangenesis
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The inheritance of acquired characters: From the beginning to the 16th century; 16th century records; 17th century records; 18th century records; Some 19th century records to the time of Charles Darwin; (II) Pangenesis: Records fr...
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