The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought
The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

Author: James S. Romm

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0691201706

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For the Greeks and Romans the earth's farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as central and human. The alien qualities of these "edges of the earth" became the basis of a literary tradition that endured throughout antiquity and into the Renaissance, despite the growing challenges of emerging scientific perspectives. Here James Romm surveys this tradition, revealing that the Greeks, and to a somewhat lesser extent the Romans, saw geography not as a branch of physical science but as an important literary genre.

The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World
The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World

Author: Nieves Herrero

Publisher: Channel View Publications

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 184541523X

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This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land’s End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.

Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism
Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9004234764

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In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.

The Poincaré Conjecture
The Poincaré Conjecture

Author: Donal O'Shea

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0141900342

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The Poincaré Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world’s most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincaré, his Conjecture promised to describe the very shape of the universe, but remained unproved until a huge prize was offered for its solution in 2000. Six years later, an eccentric Russian mathematician had the answer. Here, Donal O’Shea explains the maths behind the Conjecture and its proof, and illuminates the curious personalities surrounding this perplexing conundrum, along the way taking in a grand sweep of scientific history from the ancient Greeks to Christopher Columbus. This is an enthralling tale of human endeavour, intellectual brilliance and the thrill of discovery.

Travel Legend and Lore
Travel Legend and Lore

Author: Ronald H. Fritze

Publisher: ABC-CLIO

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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Travel Legend and Lore is your Baedeker. More than 200 A-to-Z entries (each with leads to further reading) transport you to the places, real and imaginary, that have lured armchair travelers for millennia, from the ancient Greeks to the American pioneers. And the places are inhabited, by humans and the not-so-human.

Beyond The Physical Life
Beyond The Physical Life

Author: Ravi Shankar Kapoor

Publisher: Beyond the Physical Life

Published: 2012-03-07

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Even death is not to be feared by one who lives wisely. Death is inevitable, thing which is born today will perish from the physical world one day without any doubt. But the journey doesn’t end here because there is another dimension or realm unseen by the naked eyes. These dimensions I have thoroughly discussed in this book