Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Author: Galileo
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2001-10-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 037575766X

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, published in Florence in 1632, was the most proximate cause of his being brought to trial before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, a genre common in classical philosophical works, Galileo masterfully demonstrates the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, proving, for the first time, that the earth revolves around the sun. Its influence is incalculable. The Dialogue is not only one of the most important scientific treatises ever written, but a work of supreme clarity and accessibility, remaining as readable now as when it was first published. This edition uses the definitive text established by the University of California Press, in Stillman Drake’s translation, and includes a Foreword by Albert Einstein and a new Introduction by J. L. Heilbron.

Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers

Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers
Author: David S. Sytsma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190274875

Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this work, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-17th-century England

Het naadje van de kous. Deel 3 van de Sebas trilogie

Het naadje van de kous. Deel 3 van de Sebas trilogie
Author: D.M. Sebastiaans
Publisher: Stichting Flare
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2024-03-18
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9083394433

Debby is hard aan vakantie toe wanneer ze Hamid ontmoet in de buurt van Napels. Hamid blijkt in een moordcomplot te zijn verwikkeld en Debby besluit dat Sebas nodig is. Annet, de detective in opleiding, laat zich niet tegenhouden en stort zich in het oplossen van een mysterie dat heilig-mystieke vormen aanneemt. Wordt het kostbare schilderij van Ribera teruggevonden? Is er meer aan de hand? Het mysterie leidt onze vriendenclub door Italië en Spanje. Ondanks de spannende dingen die gebeuren laat Sebas zijn bon-vivants vrienden en lezers meegenieten van heerlijk eten, veel drank en een tour langs de prachtigste kunst. Debby is als vanouds vooral bezig met het dragen van de juiste schoenen.

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004186719

The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.

Hunting Tactics of Peregrines and Other Falcons

Hunting Tactics of Peregrines and Other Falcons
Author: Dick Dekker
Publisher: Hancock House
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2009
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This book describes the foraging habits and capture rates of four species of bird-hunting falcons; Peregrine, Merlin, Gyrfalcon, and Prairie Falcon. Eight of the nine study areas were situated in western Canada in widely different habitats, and the observation periods intermittently included all seasons over 44 years, 1965-2008.

Vital Democracy

Vital Democracy
Author: Frank Hendriks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019957278X

Vital Democracy outlines an innovative new theory of democracy in action.

The Art of Dialogue

The Art of Dialogue
Author: Ineke de Feijter
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783825800505

Media and culture are deeply intertwined in contemporary society. Religions have problems relating to this media culture, which is shaped by media processes and conditioned by digital media and interactive forms of communication. Media set the agenda and they profoundly challenge religions, both with respect to their public communication, and their very existence and public relevance. People increasingly use media for shaping their religious identity and their search with respect to questions of ultimate meaning. Barely any theological studies exist that reflect on religious policies, and their subsequent praxis, in the field of communication. The author analyzes Christian policy views and identifies the main problems and opportunities in relating to media culture.

Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia

Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia
Author: M. E. Hume-Griffith
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East" by M. E. Hume-Griffith and A. Hume-Griffith is the detailed account of two doctors' mission to Persia and Turkey. Written as a travelogue, the book shows an appreciation for this exotic and fascinating culture while also framing the differences with the European customs of the book's audience.

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Publisher: Brill Archive
Total Pages: 274
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