Book Description
In an alternate world where Ptolemaic astronomy is real, scientists from the thousand year empire of Alexander the Great attempt a journey to the sun.
Author : Richard Garfinkle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 18,60 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312863489
In an alternate world where Ptolemaic astronomy is real, scientists from the thousand year empire of Alexander the Great attempt a journey to the sun.
Author : Richard Garfinkle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466838973
A thousand years after Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire has expanded over the world with the help of advanced technology. Its plans for Total Domination of the entire planet will be complete once the war with the empire of the middle kingdom has been won. The scientist Aias, commander of the celestial ship Chandra's Tear, prepares to embark on a secret mission to the sun, to steal a piece of the purest elemental fire. This ultimate piece of celestial matter will form the basis for a weapon capable of decisively ending the war with the Taoists of the Far East.
Author : Anne-Marie Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Astrology and politics
ISBN : 0197599648
"Celestial Inclinations: A Life of Augustus provides a new perspective on the life and career of the first Roman emperor Augustus (63 B.C.-A.D. 14) and presents the case that Augustus used his knowledge of the celestial sphere in various ways to confirm for himself and convey to others that the heavens supported his activities on earth and his inevitable greatness. The book is based on fresh assessments of relevant ancient historical, literary, astronomical, astrological, and artistic sources for the years prior to and during the life of Augustus. The book combines these sources with astronomical sky maps and astrological diagrams to offer fresh interpretations of critical events in the life of Augustus at a time when the celestial sphere had come to play an important cultural and political role. Topics include the identification of the celestial object that appeared at the ludi in honor of Caesar in 44 B.C.; the Battle of Actium; the iconography of the Tellus Relief Panel on the Ara Pacis Augustae; the Ludi Saeculares; Augustus' major building projects in Rome; and Augustus' interactions with major figures of the period such as Cicero, Caesar, Agrippa, and Antonius"--
Author : Jokha Alharthi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2024-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1398541419
Celestial Bodies is the International Booker-winning and internationally bestselling novel from Jokha Alharthi. Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves. PRAISE FOR CELESTIAL BODIES "An innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets” NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "The great pleasure of reading Celestial Bodies is witnessing a novel argue, through the achieved perfection of its form, for a kind of inquiry that only the novel can really conduct. The ability to move freely through time, the privileged access to the wounded privacies of many characters, the striking diversity of human beings across a relatively narrow canvas, the shock waves as one generation heaves, like tectonic plates, against another, the secrets and lapses and repressions, at once intimate and historical, the power, indeed, of an investigation that is always political and always intimate―here is the novel being supremely itself, proving itself up to the job by changing not its terms of employment but the shape of the task." THE NEW YORKER "Breathtaking. The tale is replete with history, poetry, and philosophy, but also slavery, broken marriages, passion, and not-so-secret lovers." THE ATLAN
Author : Roger Bacon
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Optics
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Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1913
Category : New Jerusalem Church
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Author : Basil Montagu
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1899
Category : English literature
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Author : Nicholas Jardine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198249290
Until about the middle of this century philosophers and scientists commonly held that science showed an accumulation of a body of objective knowledge. This view has been very widely challenged over recent years; but in this study Dr Jardine offers a defence.The discussion involves consideration of many controversial issues concerning truth in science, interpretation of past theories, and grounds of scientific method. The author writes with a careful appreciation of the complexities involved and argues for a distinctive point of view with skill andclarity.
Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 1812
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
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