To Begin Harvest Three Days Too Soon Rather Than Two Days Too Late
Title | To Begin Harvest Three Days Too Soon Rather Than Two Days Too Late PDF eBook |
Author | HARVEST. |
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Pages | 72 |
Release | 1708 |
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To Begin Harvest Three Days Too Soon Rather Than Two Days Too Late
Title | To Begin Harvest Three Days Too Soon Rather Than Two Days Too Late PDF eBook |
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Reading the Skies
Title | Reading the Skies PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Jankovic |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2001-04-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226392165 |
From the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
An age of wonders
Title | An age of wonders PDF eBook |
Author | William Burns |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2024-07-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526185660 |
Monstrous births, rains of blood, apparitions of battles in the sky – people in early modern England found all of these events to carry important religious and political meanings. In An age of wonders, available in paperback for the first time, William E. Burns explores the process by which these events became religiously and politically insignificant in the Restoration period. The story involves the establishment of early modern science, the shift from ‘enthusiastic’ to reasonable religion, and the fierce political combat between the Whigs and the Tories. This historical study is based on close readings of a variety of primary sources, both print and manuscript. Burns claims that prodigies lost their religious meaning and became subjects of scientific enquiry as a result of political struggles, first by the supporters of the restored monarchy and the Church of England against Protestant dissenters, and then by the Whig defenders of the Revolution of 1688 against the Tories and the Jacobites. By integrating religious and political history with the history of science, An age of wonders will be of great use to those working in the field of early modern history.
A Copious Dictionary ... Hebrew roots and derivatives ... inserted by W. Robertson ... In this fourth edition there are many thousand more words added, by ... Dr. Scattergood
Title | A Copious Dictionary ... Hebrew roots and derivatives ... inserted by W. Robertson ... In this fourth edition there are many thousand more words added, by ... Dr. Scattergood PDF eBook |
Author | Francis GOULDMAN |
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Pages | 1510 |
Release | 1678 |
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: C-Engineering. 1873
Title | Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates ...: C-Engineering. 1873 PDF eBook |
Author | Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 804 |
Release | 1873 |
Genre | Law |
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The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
The Farmer's Magazine
Title | The Farmer's Magazine PDF eBook |
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Pages | 566 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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