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  • Morandi's Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics

    de Brendan Dooley ...
    One year before Galileo's, another trial was the talk of Rome. The city's most notorious astrologer--Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede--was brought before the governor's court on charges of possessing prohibited books, fortune telling, and political chicanery. His most serious crime was to have predicted the death of Pope Urban VIII and allowed news of this to spread as far ... Leer más

    $74.89 USD

  • Making News in Renaissance Europe

    de Brendan Dooley ...
    Series series Elements in the Renaissance
    The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element, while offering a general account of news in the period, will convey the latest research results concerning the dynamics and significance of this major development. Drivers of change, apart from sheer curiosity, included state officials seeking opportunities, merchants seeking markets, writers ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

    de Professor Brendan Dooley, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy.Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • The Continued Exercise of Reason

    Public Addresses by George Boole

    Edición de Brendan Dooley ...
    Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.George Boole (1815–1864), remembered by history as the developer of an eponymous form of algebraic logic, can be considered a pioneer of the information age not only because of the application of Boolean logic to the design of switching circuits but also because of his ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Brendan Dooley ...
    Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far away. This sensation gives meaning to the notions of 'real time' and of a 'present' that is shared within and among societies”in other words, a sensation of contemporaneity. But how were time and space conceived before modernity? When did this begin to ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Energy and Culture

    Perspectives on the Power to Work

    Edición de Brendan Dooley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
    How will humanity continue to meet its energy needs without destroying the conditions necessary to sustain human life on earth? The search for an answer to this question depends as much on the past as on the present; and as much on the physical sciences as on the social sciences. This book offers a truly trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural look at the problem of energy production and consumption ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    In its various European contexts, the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the role of the newspaper in transforming information into ideology in various European countries, this book is the first to bring this work together into a comprehensive and comparative survey. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • A Mattress Maker’s Daughter

    The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza

    de Brendan Dooley ...
    Series Libro 12 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
    A Mattress Maker’s Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend, told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged warrior-prince into marrying her, and the family takes revenge. He is don Giovanni de’ Medici, son of the ... Leer más

    $56.69 USD

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    de Leonardo da Vinci ...
    Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of ... Leer más

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  • The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

    How the World Became Modern

    de Stephen Greenblatt ...
    Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-FictionWinner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-FictionOne of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it ... Leer más

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  • Story of Philosophy

    de Will Durant ...
    This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time.Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    de Andrew Pettegree ...
    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Leer más

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