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Author: Michael Wintroub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107188237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.
Author: Michael Wintroub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1316991652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Voyage of Thought is a micro-historical and cross-disciplinary analysis of the texts and contexts that informed the remarkable journey of the French ship captain, merchant, and poet, Jean Parmentier, from Dieppe to Sumatra in 1529. In tracing the itinerary of this voyage, Michael Wintroub examines an early attempt by the French to challenge Spanish and Portuguese oceanic hegemony and to carve out an empire in the Indies. He investigates the commercial, cultural, and religious lives of provincial humanists, including their relationship to the classical authorities they revered, the literary culture they cultivated, the techniques of oceanic navigation they pioneered, and the distant peoples with whom they came into contact. Ideal for graduate students and scholars, this journey into the history of science describes the manifold and often contradictory genealogies of the modern in the early modern world.
Author: Vincent O. Carter
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Published: 2022-05-17
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1628974109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bern Book is a travelogue, a memoir, a “diary of an isolated soul” (Darryl Pinckney), and a meditation on the myth and reality of race in midcentury Europe and America. In 1953, having left the US and settled in Bern, Switzerland, Vincent O. Carter, a struggling writer, set about composing a “record of a voyage of the mind.” The voyage begins with Carter’s furiously good-humored description of how, every time he leaves the house, he must face the possibility of being asked “the hated question” (namely, Why did you, a black man born in America, come to Bern?). It continues with stories of travel, war, financial struggle, the pleasure of walking, the pain of self-loathing, and, through it all, various experiments in what Carter calls “lacerating subjective sociology.” Now this long-neglected volume is back in print for the first time since 1973.
Author: Timothy Severin
Publisher: Little Brown
Published: 1996-01-04
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780349107073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sixth-century voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to America, is one of the most fascinating of all sea legends. Could the myth of the Irish monk and his crew sailing the Atlantic in a boat made of leather, nearly a thousand years before Columbus, have been reality? In 1976, Tim Severin and a crew of four men, set out to recreate the Brendan legend. Using the exact same methods in constructing their sailing vessel, they set out on their hazardous voyage, making it one of the most inspiring expeditions in the history of exploration.
Author: William F. Lawhead
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780495127796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy didn't just drop out of the air. Discover how philosophers used each other's works to develop their own with CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY: A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY. Inside you'll be able to retrace philosopher's intellectual journeys and then figure out how to use that information in your own life. Plus, it's packed with stories, examples, illustrations, and study tools, so you'll be able to master the material with no problem.
Author: Giulio Tononi
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2012-08-07
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0307907228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is printed in full color throughout. From one of the most original and influential neuroscientists at work today, here is an exploration of consciousness unlike any other—as told by Galileo, who opened the way for the objectivity of science and is now intent on making subjective experience a part of science as well. Galileo’s journey has three parts, each with a different guide. In the first, accompanied by a scientist who resembles Francis Crick, he learns why certain parts of the brain are important and not others, and why consciousness fades with sleep. In the second part, when his companion seems to be named Alturi (Galileo is hard of hearing; his companion’s name is actually Alan Turing), he sees how the facts assembled in the first part can be unified and understood through a scientific theory—a theory that links consciousness to the notion of integrated information (also known as phi). In the third part, accompanied by a bearded man who can only be Charles Darwin, he meditates on how consciousness is an evolving, developing, ever-deepening awareness of ourselves in history and culture—that it is everything we have and everything we are. Not since Gödel, Escher, Bach has there been a book that interweaves science, art, and the imagination with such originality. This beautiful and arresting narrative will transform the way we think of ourselves and the world.
Author: Avi Sagi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9004493964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an original philosophic exploration of the meaning of Kierkegaard’s life, his thought, and his works. It makes a bold case for Kierkegaard’s recognition of the concrete existence of the individual, including Kierkegaard himself, as crucial to the spiritual life. Written with delicate insight, and beautifully translated from Hebrew, this work offers valuable new turns to understanding the puzzling life-work of a modern giant of spiritual reflection.
Author: Casey Sean Harmon
Publisher: Innovo Publishing, LLC
Published: 2009-04-24
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 098154035X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This captivating book by US Army Chaplain Assistant Casey Sean Harmon, an active duty soldier, is an account of the end of time. It chronicles one man's incredible journey through time and his transformation from the hopelessness of self reliance to the power of faith to face what must come."--Publisher's description.
Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2008-04-29
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 1429937734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.
Author: Timothy Findley
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780140073065
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