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Imperial Unknowns
Author | : Cornel Zwierlein |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2016-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107166448 |
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At the intersection of the history of knowledge and science, of European trade empires and the Mediterranean, this major empirical study presents a new method for understanding the history of ignorance across politics, religion, history and science during the early Enlightenment.
On the Way to the Un Known
Author | : Doris Gruber,Arno Strohmeyer |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110698046 |
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This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of "otherness", the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
Martin Folkes 1690 1754
Author | : Anna Marie Roos |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2021-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780192565655 |
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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 Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.
The Man with the White Hat Or the Story of an Unknown Mission
Author | : Charles Richard Parsons |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Bristol |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590765460 |
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Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia
Author | : South Australia. Parliament |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1224 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : South Australia |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105015443711 |
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Ignorance
Author | : Peter Burke |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2023-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300271263 |
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A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023 “Ignorance: A Global History explores the myriad ways in which ‘not-knowing’ affects our lives, sometimes for good, sometimes for ill.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkness, Enlightenment thinkers tried to sweep superstition away with reason, the modern welfare state sought to slay the “giant” of ignorance, and in today’s hyperconnected world seemingly limitless information is available on demand. But what about the knowledge lost over the centuries? Are we really any less ignorant than our ancestors? In this highly original account, Peter Burke examines the long history of humanity’s ignorance across religion and science, war and politics, business and catastrophes. Burke reveals remarkable stories of the many forms of ignorance—genuine or feigned, conscious and unconscious—from the willful politicians who redrew Europe’s borders in 1919 to the politics of whistleblowing and climate change denial. The result is a lively exploration of human knowledge across the ages, and the importance of recognizing its limits.
Preliminary Listing of Municipal Waste Water Treatment Capacities
Author | : Oklahoma Foundation for Research and Development Utilization |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Sewage disposal plants |
ISBN | : UCD:35555000172207 |
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Author Unknown
Author | : Tom Geue |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674242401 |
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An exploration of the darker corners of ancient Rome to spotlight the strange sorcery of anonymous literature. From Banksy to Elena Ferrante to the unattributed parchments of ancient Rome, art without clear authorship fascinates and even offends us. Classical scholarship tends to treat this anonymity as a problem or game—a defect to be repaired or mystery to be solved. Author Unknown is the first book to consider anonymity as a site of literary interest rather than a gap that needs filling. We can tether each work to an identity, or we can stand back and ask how the absence of a name affects the meaning and experience of literature. Tom Geue turns to antiquity to show what the suppression or loss of a name can do for literature. Anonymity supported the illusion of Augustus’s sprawling puppet mastery (Res Gestae), controlled and destroyed the victims of a curse (Ovid’s Ibis), and created out of whole cloth a poetic persona and career (Phaedrus’s Fables). To assume these texts are missing something is to dismiss a source of their power and presume that ancient authors were as hungry for fame as today’s. In this original look at Latin literature, Geue asks us to work with anonymity rather than against it and to appreciate the continuing power of anonymity in our own time.