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Author: John Ray
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book ... is the outcome of a rediscovery in the Bodleian library of a number of letters of John Ray ... which form a necessary supplement to the volume of The correspondence," edited by Edwin Lankester, 1848.
Author: Charles E. Raven
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986-05-22
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780521310833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Raven's biography of the seventeenth-century English naturalist John Ray is one of the great works in the history of science. The author's command of Latin (the language in which all Ray's biological works were written) and his enthusiasm for natural history enabled him to interpret superbly to the modern reader John Ray's remarkable scientific work and to rescue Ray's reputation from undeserved neglect. Raven reveals the unique influence Ray had on the development of modern science and in particular explains sympathetically the key role of Ray's last, most popular and most influential work, The Wisdom of God, which was the forerunner of the great 'Darwinian' controversies between science and religion in the nineteenth century.
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-02-04
Total Pages: 966
ISBN-13: 9004263322
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 John Thackray Medal awarded by the Society for the History of Natural History, U.K. Martin Lister (1639–1712) was a consummate virtuoso, the first arachnologist and conchologist, and a Royal physician. As one of the most prominent corresponding fellows of the Royal Society, many of Lister’s discoveries in natural history, archaeology, medicine, and chemistry were printed in the Philosophical Transactions. Lister corresponded extensively with explorers and other virtuosi such as John Ray, who provided him with specimens, observations, and locality records from Jamaica, America, Barbados, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and his native England. This volume of ca. 400 letters (one of three), consists of Lister’s correspondence dated from 1662 to 1677, including his time as a Cambridge Fellow, his medical training in Montpellier, and his years as a practicing physician in York.
Author: Kaspar von Greyerz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-05-05
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 019286436X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is an English-language monograph which studies the impact of physico-theology on the intellectual and socio-cultural establishment in Europe from the mid-17th century.--
Author: Andrew J. Brown
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-21
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9004397531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Days of Creation examines the history of Christian interpretation of the seven-day framework of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the post-apostolic era to the debates surrounding Essays and Reviews (1860). Included in the survey are patristic, medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, eighteenth-century Enlightenment and finally early to mid-nineteenth-century interpretations of the days of creation. This study enables an insight into the mighty career of a biblical text of seminal importance, and fills a significant niche in reception-historical research.
Author: Brynley F. Roberts
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2022-07-15
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1786837846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the significance of Lhwyd’s discoveries in the fields of botany, palaeontology, epigraphy, antiquarian studies and linguistics. The book places Lhwyd’s contribution in the context of recent work in these fields. This book provides links to websites for readers to follow up for further study.
Author: Judith Hawley
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1040242359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
Author: Anna Marie Roos
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-07-12
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 9004207031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.
Author: Dmitri Levitin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-15
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ISBN-13: 1316395545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern Europe.
Author: Boston Public Library
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 902
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
