The Churchman's Magazine, Or Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, 1806, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
Title | The Churchman's Magazine, Or Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, 1806, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Churchman's Magazine |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2019-01-21 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780267378067 |
Excerpt from The Churchman's Magazine, or Treasury of Divine and Useful Knowledge, 1806, Vol. 3 D. Documents, 0 111, 192, 8h! [236, 6, 316 E Episcopacy, on, 49, 96, Extract from Sermon, John xiv. V. 21, on taking charge of a Parish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia
Title | Johnson's New Universal Cyclopædia PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1838 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
On Their Own Terms
Title | On Their Own Terms PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin A. Elman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 606 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674036476 |
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Southern Passages and Pictures
Title | Southern Passages and Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | William Gilmore Simms |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 1839 |
Genre | Southern States |
ISBN |
The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England
Title | The Collected Papers of Frederic William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic William Maitland |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Constitutional history |
ISBN |
English Book Collectors
Title | English Book Collectors PDF eBook |
Author | William Younger Fletcher |
Publisher | |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Book collectors |
ISBN |
The Social Life of Coffee
Title | The Social Life of Coffee PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Cowan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300133502 |
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.