Science in the Vanished Arcadia
Science in the Vanished Arcadia

Author: Miguel de Asúa

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 9004256776

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In Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile. Based on many so far unexplored manuscripts and a vast corpus of primary sources, the book argues the existence of a tradition of research on nature consistent with universal Jesuit science and at the same time original in its articulation of Western learning and aboriginal lore on nature.

A Lost Arcadia
A Lost Arcadia

Author: Walter A. Clark

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-10-12

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1329615824

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There are many books of many kinds and this volume properly classified would probably belong to the "sui generis," "sic trasit gloria mundi" variety. If the reader has grown a little rusty on classic Latin I do not mind saying to him further that the latter phrase has been sometimes translated, "My glorious old aunt has been sick ever since Monday," but I do not think that this revised version has been generally accepted as strictly orthodox. This book cannot be said to have been written without rhyme or reason for its pages hold more rhyme than poetry and three reasons at least, have conspired to give it literary existence. A hundred years and more from now it may be that some far descendant of the author, while fingering the musty shelves of some old library, may find some modest satisfaction in the thought that his ancient sire had "writ" a book.

In Arcadia
In Arcadia

Author: Ben Okri

Publisher: Orion Media

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780753817070

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A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it. Their journey begins in ignorance and chaos at Waterloo station and takes them through superstition and myth to harmony. In the Louvre, in front of Poussin's masterpiece, they begin to understand. 'In Arcadia takes that staple Shakespearean theme of appearance versus reality and uses it to explore the notion of paradise' Scotsman

Lost Dayton, Ohio
Lost Dayton, Ohio

Author: Andrew Walsh

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1625859090

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Explores Dayton's retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential sites and how they have changed over time.