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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Conversations with Aristotle
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Taylor & Francis Astronomy and Astrology in the Medieval Islamic World 600 Variorum Collected Studies
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Taylor & Francis Aristarchus of Samos On the Sizes and Distances
Book SynopsisThis book offers the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos's On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, accompanied by a full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia.Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BC. He was one of the first Greek astronomers to apply geometry to the solution of astronomical problems as we can see in his only extant text, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. Alongside the Greek text and new English translation, the book offers readers the Latin text and English translation of Commandino's notes on the text. Readers will also benefit from a comprehensive introductory study explaining the value of Aristarchus's calculations and methodology throughout history, as well as detailed analyses of each part of the treatise.This volume will be of interest to students and scholars working on ancient science and astronomy and the general reader interested in the history of Table of Contents1. Preliminary study; 2. Greek text and translation; 3. Analysis of On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon; 4. Scholia; Appendix 1: Mathematical tools; Appendix 2: List of manuscripts
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Taylor & Francis Reconciling Art and Technology
Book SynopsisThis book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young interdiscipline of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected.Art and technology are commonly regarded as oppositional. While both are concerned with made things â artifacts â and both have their origins in pre-literate antiquity, the primary purposes they are intended for are quite distinct: the artifacts of technology serve utilitarian purposes while those of art serve affective needs. This opposition between art and technology, notably argued by such scholars as Lewis Mumford and George Kubler is challenged in this book. For, when we consider art and technology as creative phenomena, then many significant, interesting, and often subtle commonalities emerge whereby a reconciliation â a unity â of these two great cultures seems possible. This book utilizes case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts â ranging from the Nataraja sculpture of ancient India, a great astronomical clock of ancient China, and Japanese Samurai swordmaking, through Gothic cathedrals and Renaissance paintings of Europe to English Elizabethan machinery to the French Impressionists to modernist concrete structures and paintings in both East and West.This book will be of interest to students and professional scholars interested in the histories of art and technology, cultural history, and creativity studies.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of the History of
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability is a far-reaching survey of the deep and contemporary history of sustainability. This innovative resource will help to define the history of sustainability as an identifiable field. It provides a unique resource for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, and delivers essential context for understanding the current state and future path of the sustainability movement. The history of sustainability is an increasingly important domain within the discipline of history, which draws on an interdisciplinary set of fields, ranging from energy studies, transportation, and urbanism to environmental history, economics, and philosophy. Key sections in this handbook cover the historiography of sustainability, resilience and collapse in historical societies, the deep roots of sustainability (seventeenth century to nineteenth century), the recent history of sustainability (twentieth century to present), and Table of ContentsA. Introduction1. Introduction to the Volume Jeremy L. CaradonnaB. Historiography of Sustainability2. Sustainability: A New Historiography Jeremy L. CaradonnaC. Sustainability, Resilience, and Collapse in Historical Societies3. What is Sustainable? Some Views from Highlands Papua New Guinea Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart4. Understanding Sustainability Through History: Resources and Complexity Joseph A. Tainter5. The Ancient Maya: Sustainability and Collapse? B. L. Turner IID. The Roots of Sustainability6. Sustaining What? Scarcity, Growth, and the Natural Order in the Discourse on Sustainability, 1650-1900 Gareth Dale7. Eternal Forest, Sustainable Use: The Making of the Term "Nachhaltig" in 17th and 18th-Century Germany Forestry Ulrich Grober8. The Industrial Revolution: Social Costs and Social Change Emma Griffin9. Islam and Sustainability: The Norms and the Hindrances Tarik Masud QuadirE. The Recent History of Sustainability10. The US Environmental Movement of the 1960s and 1970s: Building Frameworks of Sustainability Erik W. Johnson and Pierce Greenberg11. Sustainable Development and the United Nations Iris Borowy12. The Growth Paradigm: History, Hegemony, and the Contested Making of Economic Growthmanship Matthias Schmelzer13. A Basis for Systemic Sustainability Measurement: An Update Simon Bell and Stephen Morse14. Sustainability and the Reframing of the World City Stephen Zavestoski15. Sustainable Transportation: From Feet to Wheels and Machines and Back to Feet Preston L. Schiller16. From Hydrology to Hydrosociality: Historiography of Waters in India Jenia Mukherjee17. Sustainable Architecture: A Short History Vandana Baweja 18. Sustainability Studies in Higher Education Teresa Sabol SpezioF. Core Issues and Key Debates on Sustainability 19. Climate Change and Its Histories Hervé Le Treut and Claire Weill20. The Problem of Economic Growth Richard Heinberg21. From (Strong) Sustainability to Degrowth: A Philosophical and Historical Reconstruction Barbara Muraca and Ralf Döring22. Sustainability Beyond Growth: Toward an Ethics of Flourishing John R. Ehrenfeld23. Business, Sustainability, and the Bottom of the Pyramid Ana Maria Peredo24. At the Crossroads: Sustainability and the Twilight of the Modern World John A. Robinson and David Maggs25. Rethinking the History of Agriculture with Sustainability in Mind Jeremy L. Caradonna26. The Gene Revolution and the Future of Agriculture Thierry Vrain
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Taylor & Francis Ltd How Animals Develop
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English
Book SynopsisEcocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide to do with reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Accessible yet comprehensive, the cutting-edge collection Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts fills this gap. Organized around the notion of contact zones (or points of intersection, that have often been constructed asymmetrically-especially with regard to the human-nonhuman dichotomy), the volume reassesses current trends in ecocriticism and the Renaissance; introduces analyses of neglected texts and authors; brings ecocriticism into conversation with cognate fields and approaches (e.g., queer theory, feminism, post-coloniality, food studies); and offers a significant section on pedagogy, ecocriticism and eTrade Review'Moving from Shakespeare and Milton to logging and perfume distillation, the contributors to this collection valuably trace the lines of association that connect early modern English literary and cultural activity to our current global ecological condition. The result is a stimulating and readable anthology of early modern ecostudies, offering valuable resources for teaching and future scholarship alike.' - Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, USA'With the essays collected in this book, Munroe (Univ. of North Carolina, Charlotte), Geisweidt (Univ. of New Haven), and Bruckner (Chatham Univ.) make a valuable contribution to the literature on ecocriticism...This volume will benefit those new to the subject, scholars already working in the field, and experienced academics seeking ways to bring ecocriticism into the classroom. Summing Up: Highly recommended.' - J. D. Sharpe, University of Houston, CHOICETable of ContentsForward Carla FrecceroIntroduction Jennifer Munroe, Lynne Bruckner, and Edward J. GeisweidtSection I Theoretical Approaches1 Tell Inconvenient Truths, But Tell Them Slant Robert N. Watson2 Reading the Present in Our Environmental Past Ken Hiltner3 Is It Really Ecocritical If It Isn't Feminist?: The Dangers of "Speaking For" in Ecological Studies and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus Jennifer MunroeSection II Reading Ecologically: Texts and Methodologies4 Roses in Winter: Recipe Ecologies and Shakespeare's Sonnets Rebecca Laroche5 Poetic Language, Practical Handbooks, and the "vertues" of Plants Jessica Rosenberg6 The Beasts of Belmont and Venice Keith M. Botelho7 Shakespeare and Slime: Notes on the Anthropocene Dan Brayton8 Queerly Green: From Meaty to Meatless Days and Nights in Timon of Athens Simon C. Estok9 "Bare and desolate now": Cultural Ecology and "The Description of Cookham" Louise Noble10 The Ecology of Eating in Jonson's "To Penshurst" Amy Tigner11 The Bastard Bomb: Illegitimacy and Population in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Edward J. Geisweidt12 Ecocritical Milton Leah S. MarcusSection III Approaches to Teaching Ecologically: Texts and Methodologies13 Spenser's Moral Economy as Political Ecology: Teaching the Bower of Bliss Hillary Eklund14 Reprocentric Ecologies: Pedagogy, Husbandry and A Midsummer Night's Dream Lynne Bruckner15 Teaching Timon of Wolden Todd A. Borlik16 "Th'Earth's Great Altar": Teaching Milton's Spiritual Ecology Mary (Mimi) C. Fenton17 Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" and Tree-Felling: A Political Woodpecker Jeffrey TheisAfterword: Post-script Karen Raber
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Research Companion to
Book SynopsisTracing the continuities and trends in the complex relationship between literature and science in the long nineteenth century, this companion provides scholars with a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date foundation for research in this field. In intellectual, material and social terms, the transformation undergone by Western culture over the period was unprecedented. Many of these changes were grounded in the growth of science. Yet science was not a cultural monolith then any more than it is now, and its development was shaped by competing world views. To cover the full range of literary engagements with science in the nineteenth century, this companion consists of twenty-seven chapters by experts in the field, which explore crucial social and intellectual contexts for the interactions between literature and science, how science affected different genres of writing, and the importance of individual scientific disciplines and concepts within literary culture. Each chapterTable of ContentsContentsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: literature and science in the nineteenth centuryJohn Holmes and Sharon RustonI Contexts1) Science, empire and globalization in the nineteenth centurySadiah Qureshi2) Scientific cultures and institutions Martin Willis3) Science and religion Paul White4) Women and science Michelle BoswellII Genres5) The novel as observation and experiment Charlotte Sleigh6) From Gothic to science fiction Adam Roberts7) Poetry and science Gregory Tate8) Scientific literary criticism Peter Garratt9) Writing the scientist: biography and autobiography David Amigoni10) Writing science: scientific prose Jonathan Smith11) Science for the general reader Ralph O’Connor12) Science in the periodical press Gowan Dawson13) Science for children Debbie Bark14) Staging science Iwan MorusIII Mathematical and physical sciences15) Mathematics Alice Jenkins16) Astronomy Pamela Gossin17) Geology Adelene Buckland18) Chemistry Sharon Ruston19) Thermodynamics Barri Gold20) Electricity Stella Pratt-Smith21) Technology Meegan KennedyIV Biological and human sciences22) Natural history, evolution and ecology: the biological sciences John Holmes23) Archaeology and anthropology Julia Reid24) Medical research Andrew Mangham25) Sciences of the mind Suzy Anger26) Sexology Anna Katharina Schaffner27) Occult sciences Christine Ferguson Afterword Bernard LightmanIndex
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Cambridge University Press God and Reason in the Middle Ages
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Cambridge University Press Babylon to Voyager and Beyond A History of Planetary Astronomy
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Cambridge University Press Fritz London A Scientific Biography
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Cambridge University Press Social Engineering and the Social Sciences in China 19191949
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Cambridge University Press Aristotle in China Language Categories and Translation 2 Needham Research Institute Studies Series Number 2
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Cambridge University Press Sky and Ocean Joined
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Cambridge University Press The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume 3 The Mathematical Papers of Sir Isaac Newton
Book SynopsisThe main part of the third volume of Dr Whiteside's annotated and critical edition of all the known mathematical papers of Isaac Newton reproduces, from the original autograph, Newton's elaborate tract on infinite series and fluxions (the so-called Methodus Fluxionum), including a formerly unpublished appendix on geometrical fluxions. Ancillary documents include, in Part 1, papers on the integration of algebraic functions and, in Part 2, short texts dealing with geometry and simple harmonic motion in a cycloidal arc. Part 3 reproduces, from both manuscript versions of Newton's Lectiones Opticae and from his Waste Book, mathematical excerpts from his researches into light and the theory of lenses at this period. An appendix summarizes mathematical highlights in his contemporary correspondence.Table of ContentsPart I. Researches into Fluxions and Infinate Series: 1. Preliminary Scheme for a Treatsie on Fluxions; 2. The Tract '[De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum]'; 3. The Quadrature of Curves Defined by Polynomials; Part II. Miscellaneous Researches: 1. The Second Book of Euclid's 'Elements' Reworked; 2. Research into the Elementary Geometry of Curved Surfaces; 3. Harmonic Motion in a Cyclodial Arc; Part III. Researches in Geometrical Optics: 1. Extracts from Newton's Lectures on Optics; 2. Miscellaneous Researches into Refraction at a Curved Interface
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Cambridge University Press The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton Volume 4 16741684 The Mathematical Papers of Sir Isaac Newton v 4
Book SynopsisThis volume reproduces the texts of a number of important, yet relatively minor papers, many written during a period of Newton's life (1677â84) which has been regarded as mathematically barren except for his Lucasian lectures on algebra (which appear in Volume V). Part 1 concerns itself with his growing mastery of interpolation by finite differences, culminating in his rule for divided differences. Part 2 deals with his contemporary advances in the pure and analytical geometry of curves. Part 3 contains the extant text of two intended treatises on fluxions and infinite series: the Geometria Curvilinea (c. 1680), and his Matheseos Universalis Specimina (1684). A general introduction summarizes the sparse details of Newton's personal life during the period, one â from 1677 onwards â of almost total isolation from his contemporaries. A concluding appendix surveys highlights in his mathematical correspondence during 1674â6 with Collins, Dary, John Smith and above all Leibniz.Table of ContentsPart I. Researches in Algebra, Number Theory and Trigonometry: 1. Approaches to a General Theory of Finite Differences; 2. Problems in Elementary Number Theory; 3. Codifications of Elementary Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; 4. Miscellaneous Notes on Annuities and Algebraic Factorization; Part II. Researches in Pure and Analytical Geometry: 1. Miscellaneous Problems in Elementary Geometry; 2. Researches into the Greek 'Solid Locus'; 3. Miscellaneous Topics in Analytical Geometry; Part III. The 'Geometria Curvilinea' and 'Matheseos Universalis Specimina': 1. The 'Geometry of Curved Lines'; 2. Specimens of a Universal System of Mathematics; Appendix.
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