Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 0691009252 ISBN 13: 9780691009254
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: USED_GOOD. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: David & Yola Coffeen and Raymond V. Giordano, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and MA, 1996
Anbieter: Kuenzig Books ( ABAA / ILAB ), Topsfield, MA, USA
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Staplebound wraps. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Pgs 97-126. 8vo. Wraps. Illustrated. A bright clean copy. Staplebound wraps. ISSUE CONTENTS: Tools of Teaching and Research: John Prince, the Deerfield Academy, and Educational Reform in the Early Republic by SARA SCHECHNER GENUTH. William Wales; An Anglo-American Microscope, Optician by DEBORAH JEAN WARNER. The Rittenhouse Journal of the Scientific Enterprise was a scholarly journal focused on increasing and distributing knowledge about scientific instruments made and/or sold in the US and the Americas. Throughout its 23 years of publication (and a total of 70 issues), the journal covered areas including mathematical, optical and philosophical instruments, chemical, physical and electrical apparatus, sundials and globes; and time periods from the 17th to the mid-20th century. Authors of the various articles in the journal are well known scholars from major institutions, collectors, and dealers in the field of scientific instruments.
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 0691011508 ISBN 13: 9780691011509
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. Ill. 365 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. - Sehr gut und sauber. - In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early- modern science, Sara Schechner Genuth presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth de- lineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. 0Schechner Genuth weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built. Sara Schechner Genuth is Resident Scholar at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution. For many years the Curator of the History of Astronomy Collection at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, she is Editor of the Adler Planetarium's catalog of its scientific instrument collection. ISBN 9780691011509 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 720 Original cloth with dustjacket. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.
Verlag: PRINCETON UNIV.PRESS
Anbieter: Martin Preuß / Akademische Buchhandlung Woetzel, Kerzenheim, Deutschland
Verbandsmitglied: BOEV
32. Zustand: Wie neu. 1997. 365 S., 53 Abb., gebunden mit Schutzumschlag, 24 x16 cm A lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science. Itchallenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Sprache: Deutsch.