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Editing Early Modern Texts
An Introduction to Principles and Practice
Häftad, 2006
1260 kr
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This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their editorial treatment and giving practical advice …
Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-1691 Vol 2
Av Michael Hunter, Antonio Clericuzio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
3256 kr
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index. The four volumes cover the time …
Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Av Micheal Hunter, Michael Hunter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1992
3727 kr
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The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key feature in the development of the modern world, yet it is a topic which has been little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two centuries following the Reformation.Atheism …
An Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century
Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1652-1699
Av Samuel Jeake, Michael Hunter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1378 kr
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Samuel Jeake (1652-1699) was a merchant and nonconformist of Rye in Sussex with a passionate interest in astrology. His diary is here published for the first time; in it he not only recorded the events of his life in detail but subjected them to astrological scrutiny, interspersing his text with …
Editing Early Modern Texts
An Introduction to Principles and Practice
Inbunden, 2006
1260 kr
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This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their editorial treatment and giving practical advice …
Editing Early Modern Texts
An Introduction to Principles and Practice
E-bok, 2006
1782 kr
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This book provides an approachable exposition of the rationale of textual editing with special reference to texts from between 1550-1800. The volume explains how manuscript and printed texts were produced, indicating the implications of this for their editorial treatment and giving practical advice …
The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought
How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition
Inbunden, 2021
1206 kr
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The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in …
The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought
How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition
Häftad, 2021
307 kr
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The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in …
Boyle
Between God and Science
Häftad, 2010
221 kr
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Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world’s most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker—pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel mechanical view of nature, and reflecting deeply …
Decline of Magic
Britain in the Enlightenment
E-bok, 2019
149 kr
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A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain-named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial TimesIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the …
Decline of Magic
Britain in the Enlightenment
Häftad, 2021
161 kr
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A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain—named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial TimesIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the …
Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends
With a Fragment of William Wotton's 'Lost Life of Boyle'
Häftad, 2019
796 kr
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The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.
Scientists
An Epic of Discovery
Av Naomi Pasachoff, Jay Pasachoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
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249 kr
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This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science – from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science …
Science and Society in Restoration England
Häftad, 1981
621 kr
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Although much has been written on the intellectual achievements of the age of Newton, Boyle and Hooke, this book provided the first systematic assessment of the social relations of Restoration science when it was published in 1981. On the basis of a detailed analysis of the early history of the …
Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Av Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1628 kr
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In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a …
Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature
Av Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
679 kr
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In this book, published in 1686, the scientist Robert Boyle (1627-91) attacked prevailing notions of the natural world which depicted 'Nature' as a wise, benevolent and purposeful being. Boyle, one of the leading mechanical philosophers of his day, believed that the world was best understood as a …
Robert Boyle Reconsidered
Häftad, 2003
781 kr
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This book presents a new view of Robert Boyle (1627-91), the leading British scientist in the generation before Newton. It comprises a series of essays by scholars from Europe and North America which scrutinise Boyle's writings on science, philosophy and theology in detail, bringing out the …
Hunter Chef Cookbook
Hunt, Fish, and Forage in Over 100 Recipes
Inbunden, 2020
304 kr
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"I recognized that Michael Hunter knows what he is talking about the minute I opened this book. Hunter is the kind of guy--and the kind of work--that you get when you combine passion, creativity, inventiveness, and elbow grease. This book makes me hungry, and Michael Hunter makes me proud to be a …
Hunter Chef in the Wild
Game, Fish, and Fowl Recipes and Techniques for Cooking Outdoors
Inbunden, 2025
348 kr
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Hugely popular outdoorsman, hunter, and chef Michael Hunter shares a stunning and indispensable guide to cooking wild food outdoors with 80+ recipes, techniques, and stories of hunting and fishing in the wild. Seasoned outdoorsman, hunter, and angler Michael Hunter takes readers on his adventures …
Robert Hooke
Tercentennial Studies
Av Michael Hunter, Michael Cooper
Inbunden, 2006
3262 kr
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Robert Hooke (1635-1703) was a genius whose wide-ranging achievements are at last receiving the recognition that they deserve. Long overshadowed by such eminent contemporaries as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, Hooke's own seminal contributions to science, architecture and technology are …
Boyle Papers
Understanding the Manuscripts of Robert Boyle
Inbunden, 2007
3158 kr
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Robert Boyle (1627-91) was the most influential British scientist of the late seventeenth century. His huge archive, which has been at the Royal Society since 1769, has only recently been explored, leading to a new understanding of many aspects of Boyle's thought. This volume brings together the …
Printed Images in Early Modern Britain
Essays in Interpretation
Inbunden, 2010
2588 kr
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Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at the time. Yet, by comparison with printed texts, these images have been neglected, particularly by historians to whom they ought to be of …
Establishing the New Science
The Experience of the Early Royal Society
Inbunden, 1995
1754 kr
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For anyone interested in the scientific revolution these essays are compulsory reading. HISTORY A fresh view of the formative years of the Royal Society.`Hunter's reputation as one of the foremost students of Restoration science in England can only be further enhanced by this volume.' NATURE `For …
Robert Hooke
New Studies
Av Michael Hunter, Simon Schaffer
Inbunden, 1989
1393 kr
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`Individually excellent and scholarly essays... most illuminating and thought-provoking. A conspicuous feature of the collection is the heterogeneity of the scientific topics discussed.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW `Essentialreading for all students of Hooke and of the context of Restoration …
Archives of the Scientific Revolution
The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Inbunden, 1998
1434 kr
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The seventeenth century in Western Europe remains the key time and place for the development of modern science; the basic theme of this book is what the nature of seventeenth-century archives can tell us about this development, through a series of case studies (Boyle, Galileo, Huygens, Newton …
Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends
With a Fragment of William Wotton''s ''Lost Life of Boyle''
E-bok, 2020
917 kr
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The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.
Robert Boyle: By Himself and His Friends
With a Fragment of William Wotton''s ''Lost Life of Boyle''
E-bok, 2020
917 kr
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The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublished texts.
Correspondence of Robert Boyle, 1636-61 Vol 1
Av Lawrence M Principe, Antonio Clericuzio m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
3524 kr
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Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was one of the most influential scientific and theological thinkers of his time. This is the first edition of his correspondence, transcribed from the original manuscripts. It is fully annotated, with an introduction and general index. The four volumes cover the time …
