Defining Nature S Limits
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Defining Nature S Limits
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Author : Neil Tarrant
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-10-21
Defining Nature S Limits written by Neil Tarrant and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-21 with History categories.
A look at the history of censorship, science, and magic from the Middle Ages to the post-Reformation era. Neil Tarrant challenges conventional thinking by looking at the longer history of censorship, considering a five-hundred-year continuity of goals and methods stretching from the late eleventh century to well into the sixteenth. Unlike earlier studies, Defining Nature’s Limits engages the history of both learned and popular magic. Tarrant explains how the church developed a program that sought to codify what was proper belief through confession, inquisition, and punishment and prosecuted what they considered superstition or heresy that stretched beyond the boundaries of religion. These efforts were continued by the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542. Although it was designed primarily to combat Protestantism, from the outset the new institution investigated both practitioners of “illicit” magic and inquiries into natural philosophy, delegitimizing certain practices and thus shaping the development of early modern science. Describing the dynamics of censorship that continued well into the post-Reformation era, Defining Nature's Limits is revisionist history that will interest scholars of the history science, the history of magic, and the history of the church alike.
A Concept Of Limits
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Author : Donald W. Hight
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-07-17
A Concept Of Limits written by Donald W. Hight and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-17 with Mathematics categories.
An exploration of conceptual foundations and the practical applications of limits in mathematics, this text offers a concise introduction to the theoretical study of calculus. Many exercises with solutions. 1966 edition.
Nature S Edge
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Author : Charles S. Brown
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2007-07-05
Nature S Edge written by Charles S. Brown and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-05 with Science categories.
Nature's Edge brings together leading environmental thinkers from the natural sciences, geography, political science, religion, and philosophy to explore the complex facets of boundary formation and negotiation at the heart of our environmental problems. The contributors provide a fresh look at how our lives depend on the lines drawn and ask how those lines must be reinscribed, blurred, or even erased to prepare for a sustainable future. Resolving environmental problems calls for the negotiation of multiple, intersecting boundaries—natural, social, political, geographical, and ethical. From the differentiation of species to the formation of communities and moral values, environmental theorists are constantly confronted with a palimpsest of thresholds and mappings: Can nature and culture be divided? Are natural divisions discovered or created? How do political borders and moral economies shape community-building and social transformation?
Seeking Nature S Limits
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Author : Suzanne J. Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Seeking Nature S Limits written by Suzanne J. Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Adaptation (Biology) categories.
Magus
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Author : Anthony Grafton
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-12-05
Magus written by Anthony Grafton and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-05 with History categories.
A revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of Renaissance Europe. In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The historical Faustus, however, was something quite different: a magus—a learned magician fully embedded in the scholarly currents and public life of the Renaissance. And he was hardly the only one. Anthony Grafton argues that the magus in sixteenth-century Europe was a distinctive intellectual type, both different from and indebted to medieval counterparts as well as contemporaries like the engineer, the artist, the Christian humanist, and the religious reformer. Alongside these better-known figures, the magus had a transformative impact on his social world. Magus details the arts and experiences of learned magicians including Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Johannes Trithemius, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Grafton explores their methods, the knowledge they produced, the services they provided, and the overlapping political and social milieus to which they aspired—often, the circles of kings and princes. During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, these erudite men anchored debates about licit and illicit magic, the divine and the diabolical, and the nature of “good” and “bad” magicians. Over time, they turned magic into a complex art, which drew on contemporary engineering as well as classical astrology, probed the limits of what was acceptable in a changing society, and promised new ways to explore the self and exploit the cosmos. Resituating the magus in the social, cultural, and intellectual order of Renaissance Europe, Grafton sheds new light on both the recesses of the learned magician’s mind and the many worlds he inhabited.
Lloyd S Encyclop Dic Dictionary
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Author : Robert Hunter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Lloyd S Encyclop Dic Dictionary written by Robert Hunter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.
The Insurance Cyclop Edia Being A Dictionary Of The Definition Of Terms Used In Connexion With The Theory And Practice Of Insurance In All Its Branches
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Author : Cornelius Walford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
The Insurance Cyclop Edia Being A Dictionary Of The Definition Of Terms Used In Connexion With The Theory And Practice Of Insurance In All Its Branches written by Cornelius Walford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Insurance categories.
New Natures
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Author : Dolly Jørgensen
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2013-07-08
New Natures written by Dolly Jørgensen and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-08 with Technology & Engineering categories.
New Natures broadens the dialogue between the disciplines of science and technology studies (STS) and environmental history in hopes of deepening and even transforming understandings of human-nature interactions. The volume presents richly developed historical studies that explicitly engage with key STS theories, offering models for how these theories can help crystallize central lessons from empirical histories, facilitate comparative analysis, and provide a language for complicated historical phenomena. Overall, the collection exemplifies the fruitfulness of cross-disciplinary thinking. The chapters follow three central themes: ways of knowing, or how knowledge is produced and how this mediates our understanding of the environment; constructions of environmental expertise, showing how expertise is evaluated according to categories, categorization, hierarchies, and the power afforded to expertise; and lastly, an analysis of networks, mobilities, and boundaries, demonstrating how knowledge is both diffused and constrained and what this means for humans and the environment. Contributors explore these themes by discussing a wide array of topics, including farming, forestry, indigenous land management, ecological science, pollution, trade, energy, and outer space, among others. The epilogue, by the eminent environmental historian Sverker Sörlin, views the deep entanglements of humans and nature in contemporary urbanity and argues we should preserve this relationship in the future. Additionally, the volume looks to extend the valuable conversation between STS and environmental history to wider communities that include policy makers and other stakeholders, as many of the issues raised can inform future courses of action.
A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union
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Author : Thomas McIntyre Cooley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union written by Thomas McIntyre Cooley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Constitutional law categories.
The Metaphysics Of The School Book 1 The Definition Book 2 Being Book 3 Attributes Of Being
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Author : Thomas Harper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1879
The Metaphysics Of The School Book 1 The Definition Book 2 Being Book 3 Attributes Of Being written by Thomas Harper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1879 with Metaphysics categories.