De Omnibus Rebus
Author : Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 1888
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne
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Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 1888
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Julia Clara Byrne
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,98 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Fiction
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"Goblin, lead them up and down." The ruddy glow of sunset was already fading into the sombre shadows of night, when two travellers might have been observed swiftly-at a pace of six miles in the hour-descending the rugged side of a mountain; the younger bounding from crag to crag with the agility of a fawn, while his companion, whose aged limbs seemed ill at ease in the heavy chain armour habitually worn by tourists in that district, toiled on painfully at his side. As is always the case under such circumstances, the younger knight was the first to break the silence. "A goodly pace, I trow!" he exclaimed. "We sped not thus in the ascent!" "Goodly, indeed!" the other echoed with a groan. "We clomb it but at three miles in the hour." "And on the dead level our pace is--?" the younger suggested; for he was weak in statistics, and left all such details to his aged companion. "Four miles in the hour," the other wearily replied. "Not an ounce more," he added, with that love of metaphor so common in old age, "and not a farthing less!" "'Twas three hours past high noon when we left our hostelry," the young man said, musingly. "We shall scarce be back by supper-time. Perchance mine host will roundly deny us all food!" "He will chide our tardy return," was the grave reply, "and such a rebuke will be meet."
Author : Henry Thomas Riley
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Law
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Author : Jessica Riskin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226720837
Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long experimental tradition: efforts to simulate life in machinery, to synthesize life out of material parts, and to understand living beings by comparison with inanimate mechanisms. Jessica Riskin collects seventeen essays from distinguished scholars in several fields. These studies offer an unexpected and far-reaching result: attempts to create artificial life have rarely been driven by an impulse to reduce life and mind to machinery. On the contrary, designers of synthetic creatures have generally assumed a role for something nonmechanical. The history of artificial life is thus also a history of theories of soul and intellect. Taking a historical approach to a modern quandary, Genesis Redux is essential reading for historians and philosophers of science and technology, scientists and engineers working in artificial life and intelligence, and anyone engaged in evaluating these world-changing projects.
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Quotations, English
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Author : British Archaeological Association
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,7 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Archaeology
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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Page : 906 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Page : 904 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
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Page : 914 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Great Britain
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