Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artifact. A creature of supposedly little memory and a short lifespan, it has held universal appeal as a reserv...Daugiau...
Martin Lister (16391712), who served as physician to Queen Anne, was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.), and the first scientific arachnologist and conchologist. This volume is an edition of his correspondence from 1678 to 1694....Daugiau...
This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingolds...Daugiau...
This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingolds...Daugiau...
This volume analyses how and why members of scholarly societies such as the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Leopoldina collected specimens of the natural world, art, and archaeology in the seventeenth and eighteenth centu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198830061)
Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newtons prot g , astronomer, mathematician, free...Daugiau...
Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artifact. A creature of supposedly little memory and a short lifespan, it has held universal appeal as a reserv...Daugiau...
A royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, Martin Lister was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and mollusks. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters...Daugiau...
A collection of essays by an international team of scholars, Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. It demonstrates the sustaining importance of archival institutions in...Daugiau...
Volume one of the Correspondence of Martin Lister (1639-1712), Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, comprises ca. 400 letters dating from 1662 to 1677....Daugiau...
This volume examines the life and work of Martin Lister, a pioneering seventeenth century English naturalist and the father of arachnology, the study of spiders. The biography follows Lister through several periods of his life examining the interrela...Daugiau...
Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry...Daugiau...
Serija: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI Studies) Studies in Science, Technology and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Apr-2001, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9780820445632)
The sun and the moon, or the luminaries, were a motif that ran through late medieval and early modern English culture. Roos (history, U. of Minnesota) examines depictions of the luminaries as a way of understanding changes in epistemological conce...Daugiau...
