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Keine Angaben
Author : Graham P. Jefcoate M.A.
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3487156172
Keine Angaben
Author : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Early printed books
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Author : Bernhard Fabian
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Early printed books
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Author : Trevor Levere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1315411911
Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808) lived in ‘decidedly interesting times’ in which established orders in politics and science were challenged by revolutionary new ideas. Enthusiastically participating in the heady atmosphere of Enlightenment debate, Beddoes' career suffered from his radical views on politics and science. Denied a professorship at Oxford, he set up a medical practice in Bristol in 1793. Six years later - with support from a range of leading industrialists and scientists including the Wedgwoods, Erasmus Darwin, James Watt, James Keir and others associated with the Lunar Society - he established a Pneumatic Institution for investigating the therapeutic effects of breathing different kinds of ‘air’ on a wide spectrum of diseases. The treatment of the poor, gratis, was an important part of the Pneumatic Institution and Beddoes, who had long concerned himself with their moral and material well-being, published numerous pamphlets and small books about their education, wretched material circumstances, proper nutrition, and the importance of affordable medical facilities. Beddoes’ democratic political concerns reinforced his belief that chemistry and medicine should co-operate to ameliorate the conditions of the poor. But those concerns also polarized the medical profession and the wider community of academic chemists and physicians, many of whom became mistrustful of Beddoes’ projects due to his radical politics. Highlighting the breadth of Beddoes’ concerns in politics, chemistry, medicine, geology, and education (including the use of toys and models), this book reveals how his reforming and radical zeal were exemplified in every aspect of his public and professional life, and made for a remarkably coherent program of change. He was frequently a contrarian, but not without cause, as becomes apparent once he is viewed in the round, as part of the response to the politics and social pressures of the late Enlightenment.
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher : London : Library Association Publishing
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Arts
ISBN :
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher :
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Reference books
ISBN : 9781856041379
Author : Marilyn Mullay
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Reference
ISBN :
**** The British counterpart to Sheehy (in which it is recommended--and vice versa), distributed in the US by Unipub. Volume 3 completes the 5th edition with 8,833 entries (vol. 1:Science and technology, 1989, 5,995 entries; vol.2: Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion, 1990, 7,166 entries). While the majority of items are reference books, Walford is a guide to reference material and therefore includes periodical articles, microforms, online, and CD-ROM sources. A special effort has been made to make sure the output of small and specialist presses is not neglected. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Albert John Walford
Publisher : Library Association Publishing (UK)
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN :
This book has achieved international recognition as a reference tool and a "one-stop" daily information source. This new edition features many topics, and is indispensable to librarians and information professionals revising reference collections, etc.
Author : Trevor Howard Howard-Hill
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : T. H. Howard-Hill
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 1999
Category : English literature
ISBN :