Emblems and the Natural World, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Paul J. Smith
Автор: Rickard David Название: Pyrite: A Natural History of Fool`s Gold ISBN: 0190203676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190203672 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 32200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An accessible exploration of pyrite`s influence on human history, culture, and science, revealing how fool`s gold has become a universal symbol for everything overvalued.
Автор: Sawyer Название: Animal Management and Welfare in Natural Disasters ISBN: 1138190691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138190696 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 40820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The devastating effects of natural disasters are not only directly on humans and infrastructure, but also on animals, which may be crucial to the livelihoods of many people. This book considers the needs of animals in the aftermath of disasters and explains the importance of looking to their welfare in extreme events.
Foreword.- Chapter I There are movements of sublunary bodies in a fluid environment, which nobody dealt with so far.- Chapter II On the moments of consistent and fluid heavy bodies floating in fluids.- Chapter III Every fluid body among those which rest on the surface of the earth is heavy and exerts the force of its gravity, even when present and quiescent in its due place, in all the fluid of its kind.- Chapter IV There is no positive lightness in the nature of things.- Chapter V On the structure, the gravity, the equilibrium and the elastic force of air.- Chapter VI There is neither attraction nor attractive force in Nature.- Chapter VII On the nature and cause of fluidity.- Chapter VIII Investigation of the cause of the spontaneous elevation of small particles of water in the air above the surface of the water.- Chapter IX On the mutual binding of floating corpuscles and on their shunning.- Chapter X On the natural velocity of heavy bodies in equal times.- Chapter XI Why movements of heavy bodies are made unequal by full fluid environments.- Chapter XII On the necessity of vacuum.- Chapter XIII Explanation of the fact that watery bodies when they freeze increase in volume with an enormous force.
Автор: K. Gevirtz Название: Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 ISBN: 1349482307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349482306 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 60550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the `scientific` revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Автор: Acosta Название: The Natural and Moral History of the Indies ISBN: 1108011519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108011518 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available early accounts of exploration. This is a translation of the first detailed account of the geography and indigenous culture of South America, by Joseph de Acosta (1540-1600). Volume 1 describes the animals, plants and climate of South America.
Автор: Dewhurst Название: The Natural History of the Order Cetacea ISBN: 1108071872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108071871 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1824, doctor and naturalist Henry William Dewhurst embarked on a voyage to Greenland and spent his time there observing Arctic marine life. He published his detailed findings on the whales and other creatures he saw, complete with engraved illustrations, in 1834, making this work an important early zoological study.
Автор: Vicat Название: A Practical and Scientific Treatise on Calcareous Mortars and Cements, Artificial and Natural ISBN: 1108071511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108071512 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Having devised an artificial cement in 1817, Louis-Joseph Vicat (1786-1861) sought to share his knowledge of calcareous cements. He addresses the subject of limes and the ingredients used to prepare mortars and cements, considering how these products are affected by environmental conditions. This English translation first appeared in 1837.
Автор: Berryman Название: The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy ISBN: 110765761X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107657618 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 44350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book argues that the idea that the world works `like a machine` can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which it is most closely associated. Topics include balancing and equilibrium, lifting water, sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek pneumatic theory.
Автор: White Название: Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s ISBN: 1403994781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403994783 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 97820.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Following the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, ideas of the `Natural Rights of Man` (later distinguished into particular issues like rights of association, rights of women, slaves, children and animals) were publicly debated in England.
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