Автор: Dunn Richard S. Название: Puritans and Yankees: The Winthrop Dynasty of New England ISBN: 0691651930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691651934 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 149950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
When Governor John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, he commenced a tradition of public service in which his family would participate for almost a century. His son, John, Jr., and his grandsons, Fitz John and Wait Still, were deeply involved in the colonial government of New England, although their motives were increasingly mixed with private interest. Mr. Dunn's portrayal of this important and interesting family illuminates the two most fundamental themes in early New England history: the gradual secularization of the New England conscience, and the continuous struggle to preserve local customs and privileges within an increasingly centralized English imperial system.
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Dr. Winthrop undertakes to identify the very source of physical law, with a view to explaining why there are any laws at all and why they have the forms they do.
The main idea is to treat the representation of a fact of the external world as a received message. By assuming exact correspondence between the fact and its representation one arrives a general law of physics, a Law of Laws, one that yields both known and new laws governing the behavior of the quantum micro-world and the universe at large. Moreover, the laws so obtained are true by definition. Hence the Principle of True Representation: the laws of physics derive from the unification of appearance and reality.
The present volume erases the boundaries between physics, metaphysics and neuroscience and should attract the attention of a broad spectrum of workers seeking to view fundamental problems in a new light.
Dr. Winthrop undertakes to identify the very source of physical law, with a view to explaining why there are any laws at all and why they have the forms they do.
The main idea is to treat the representation of a fact of the external world as a received message. By assuming exact correspondence between the fact and its representation one arrives a general law of physics, a Law of Laws, one that yields both known and new laws governing the behavior of the quantum micro-world and the universe at large. Moreover, the laws so obtained are true by definition. Hence the Principle of True Representation: the laws of physics derive from the unification of appearance and reality.
The present volume erases the boundaries between physics, metaphysics and neuroscience and should attract the attention of a broad spectrum of workers seeking to view fundamental problems in a new light.
