A Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy (etc.)
Author : John Bentley
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Astronomy
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Author : John Bentley
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1825
Category : Astronomy
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Author : O.F.G. Sitwell
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0774844574
Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Education
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Author : Egerton Ryerson
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Education
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
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Author : Clement Cruttwell
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1790
Category : Bible
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Author : Clement Cruttwell
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1793
Category : France
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Author : George Perkins Marsh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295983165
First published in 1864, Marsh's ominous warnings inspired environmental conservation and reform. By linking culture with nature, science with history, "Man and Nature" was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin's "On the Origin of Species."
Author : Gaston Boissier
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Africa
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Author : Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : 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.