A New Introduction to Trade and Business, Very Useful for Youth of Both Sexes. ... To which A[r]e Added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, Exemplified ... II. A List of the Most Common Abbreviations ... III. Arithmetical Tables, of Weights and Measures. IV. A New Set of Questions ... in ... the Rules of Arithmetic ... V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece, Or Perpetual Almanac. The Eighth Edition, Corrected and Improved ... By Peter Hudson ... And Other Schoolmasters ..

A New Introduction to Trade and Business, Very Useful for Youth of Both Sexes. ... To which A[r]e Added, I. Commercial and Epistolary Correspondence, Exemplified ... II. A List of the Most Common Abbreviations ... III. Arithmetical Tables, of Weights and Measures. IV. A New Set of Questions ... in ... the Rules of Arithmetic ... V. The Explanation and Use of the Frontispiece, Or Perpetual Almanac. The Eighth Edition, Corrected and Improved ... By Peter Hudson ... And Other Schoolmasters ..
Author: Peter Hudson (Teacher)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1795
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Dilettanti

Dilettanti
Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-08-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892369248
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Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication

Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication
Author: National Aeronautics Administration
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2014-09-06
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ISBN: 9781501081729
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Addressing a field that has been dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, the contributors to this collection raise questions that may have been overlooked by physical scientists about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. These scholars are grappling with some of the enormous challenges that will face humanity if an information-rich signal emanating from another world is detected. By drawing on issues at the core of contemporary archaeology and anthropology, we can be much better prepared for contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, should that day ever come.