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  • Lêze, blinder

    Tsien koarte ferhalen fan skriuwers fan no

    Edición de Marijke de Boer, Arjen Dijkstra ...
    Mei bydragen fan Jetske Bilker, Douwe Kootstra, Janneke Spoelstra, Klaas van der Hoek, Ytsje Hettinga, Bouke Oldenhof, Wieke de Haan, Doeke Sijens, Marijke de Boer en Goffe Jensma De tradysje fan koarte ferhalen is lang en ken ek yn Fryslân in rike skiednis. Dy rint fan Aldfrysk en Gysbert Japicx, fia de Halbertsmabruorren nei Simke Kloosterman oant Trinus Riemersma. Yn dizze spesjale útjefte ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Builder of Heavens

    How Eise Eisinga Created the Greatest Planetarium of His Time

    Traducido por Liz Waters ...
    In the late eighteenth century, Eise Eisinga, living in the small university town of Franeker, built a magnificent model of the solar system. When it was finished, news of his Planetarium spread rapidly all over the world. In this book, Arjen Dijkstra tells a delightful new story about Eisinga's life and the creation of the Franeker Planetarium. He draws upon dozens of previously unknown sources ... Leer más

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  • Cultivating and Communicating Natural and Technical Knowledge around 1800

    Devotees of Science

    Series series Studies in the History of Knowledge
    This is a book about some of the unexpected people and places involved in cultivating knowledge of the natural world and mastery of scientific apparatus around 1800, taking readers across continental Europe from the Enlightenment to the onset of academic professionalisation. The authors widen the horizon of inquiry by looking beyond the scientific elite of academies and prestigious science ... Leer más

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  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Leer más

    $11.39 USD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • Scientific Babel

    How Science Was Done Before and After Global English

    English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn't always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Birth of the Archive

    A History of Knowledge

    Traducido por John Dillon ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture. Archives were compiled and maintained by peasants and kings, merchants and churchmen, and conceptions of archives were as diverse as those who used them. The complex, demanding job ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Rivals

    How Scientists Learned to Cooperate

    Why is the scientific community so unified?In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of two global crises: disastrous climate change, and a deadly pandemic. How did “the scientific community” come into existence, and why does it work?Rivals is an attempt to answer these questions in the ... Leer más

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  • The Kingdom of Man

    Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project

    de Rémi Brague ...
    Traducido por Paul Seaton ...
    Series series Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
    Was humanity created, or do humans create themselves? In this eagerly awaited English translation of Le Règne de l’homme, the last volume of Rémi Brague's trilogy on the philosophical development of anthropology in the West, Brague argues that, with the dawn of the Enlightenment, Western societies rejected the transcendence of the past and looked instead to the progress fostered by the early ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Androids in the Enlightenment

    Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self

    The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted ... Leer más

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edición de David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Emil du Bois-Reymond

    Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Germany

    Series series Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
    A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818–1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresses ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD