Inventing Inventors In Renaissance Europe
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Inventing Inventors In Renaissance Europe
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Author : Catherine Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2007
Inventing Inventors In Renaissance Europe written by Catherine Atkinson and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Polydore Vergil of Urbino (ca.1470-1555) fired his readers' imagination with his encyclopaedic book On the inventors of all things ( De inventoribus rerum 1499). His account of the manifold origins of sciences, crafts and social institutions is a praise of man's inventive genius and a prototypical cultural history. Polydorus was a household name for several centuries. Erasmus envied his friend the book's success, Rabelais heaped scorn on it, Catholic censors put it on the index, while Protestants were fascinated with that papist work. In this first in-depth study of the Renaissance 'bestseller', Catherine Atkinson examines not only the Italian humanist's bona fide (mostly ancient) inventors, in books I-III, she enquires into the neglected and misunderstood, yet equally important, books IV-VIII (1521). This early modern text, written on the eve of the Reformation, is devoted to the highly controversial topic of the 'invention' of ecclesiastical institutions. The priest and humanist Vergil, who during his 50 years in England rose in the church hierarchy, is shown to be an acute observer of contemporary religious practice. He employs the inventor question (who was the first to do this?) as an instrument of historiography and by comparing medieval church rites and institutions with religious practice of antiquity, implicitly questions the singularity of the Christian church.
Inventing Inventors In Renaissance Europe
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Author : Catherine Atkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Inventing Inventors In Renaissance Europe written by Catherine Atkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Scientists And Inventors Of The Renaissance
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Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
language : en
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-01
Scientists And Inventors Of The Renaissance written by Britannica Educational Publishing and has been published by Britannica Educational Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The ingenuity evidenced during the Renaissance was not just limited to the fine arts. A number of scientists and inventors also made astonishing breakthroughs in astronomy, medicine, physics, and more. Readers examine the scientific revolution, profiling Isaac Newton, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo, and many other great thinkers who transformed the scientific and mechanical worlds.
What Reason Promises
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Author : Wendy Doniger
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-06-20
What Reason Promises written by Wendy Doniger and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-20 with Philosophy categories.
This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on three interlocking categories: Reason stakes a bigger territory than the enclosed yard of universal rules. Nature expands over a far larger region than an eternal category of the natural. And history refuses to be confined to claims of an unencumbered truth of how things happened.
The Invention Of Science
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Author : David Wootton
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-09-17
The Invention Of Science written by David Wootton and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-17 with Science categories.
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible: indeed it introduced the very concept of 'discovery', and opened the way to the invention of science. The first crucial discovery was Tycho Brahe's nova of 1572: proof that there could be change in the heavens. The telescope (1610) rendered the old astronomy obsolete. Torricelli's experiment with the vacuum (1643) led directly to the triumph of the experimental method in the Royal Society of Boyle and Newton. By 1750 Newtonianism was being celebrated throughout Europe. The new science did not consist simply of new discoveries, or new methods. It relied on a new understanding of what knowledge might be, and with this came a new language: discovery, progress, facts, experiments, hypotheses, theories, laws of nature - almost all these terms existed before 1492, but their meanings were radically transformed so they became tools with which to think scientifically. We all now speak this language of science, which was invented during the Scientific Revolution. The new culture had its martyrs (Bruno, Galileo), its heroes (Kepler, Boyle), its propagandists (Voltaire, Diderot), and its patient labourers (Gilbert, Hooke). It led to a new rationalism, killing off alchemy, astrology, and belief in witchcraft. It led to the invention of the steam engine and to the first Industrial Revolution. David Wootton's landmark book changes our understanding of how this great transformation came about, and of what science is.
Crazy Inventions Made During The Renaissance Children S Renaissance History
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Author : Baby Professor
language : en
Publisher: Speedy Publishing LLC
Release Date : 2017-02-15
Crazy Inventions Made During The Renaissance Children S Renaissance History written by Baby Professor and has been published by Speedy Publishing LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with History categories.
The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today’s young children. This book is all about the crazy but really impressive inventions made during the said period. Bring renaissance back to life in the eyes of your little ones when you buy this book. Go ahead and get a copy today.
Dissimulation And Deceit In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Miriam Eliav-Feldon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-29
Dissimulation And Deceit In Early Modern Europe written by Miriam Eliav-Feldon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with History categories.
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Invention Of The Renaissance Woman
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Author : Pamela Joseph Benson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Invention Of The Renaissance Woman written by Pamela Joseph Benson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the Renaissance the nature of womankind was a major topic of debate. Numerous dialogues, defenses, paradoxes, and tributes devoted to sustaining woman's excellence were published, and in them history was rewritten to include the achievements of womankind. Often these texts demonstrate that women are capable of acting with prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice, and thus are capable of being independent of male political and moral authority. Pamela Benson argues that the writers use literary means (genre, characterization, narrator, paradox, plot) to defeat the political challenge posed by female independence and to restrain women within a traditional role. The Invention of the Renaissance Woman is a study of the literary strategies used both to create the notion of the independent woman and to restrain her. Traditionally, the profeminism of most of these texts has not been taken seriously because their playful or extreme styles have been read as a sign that they were nothing but a game. Benson demonstrates that the flamboyant and frequently paradoxical style of these texts is the key to their successful profeminism. She defines the literary and conceptual differences between the Italian and English traditions and argues that two of the greatest literary works of the Renaissance, the Orlando furioso and The Faerie Queene, are major texts in the tradition of defense and praise of women. The Inventions of the Renaissance Women is the first substantial contextual discussion of the majority of the Italian texts and many of the English ones. Benson uses the insights of feminist theory and of cultural studies without subordinating the Renaissance texts to a modern political agenda. Among the authors discussed are Spenser, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Castiglione, Vespasiano da Bisticci, Thomas More, Thomas Elyot, Juan Luis Vives, Richard Hyrde, Jane Anger, and Henry Howard.
Bach S Feet
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Author : David Yearsley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-19
Bach S Feet written by David Yearsley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with History categories.
Yearsley explores the cultural significance of making music with hands and feet, a mode of performance unique to the organ.
The One Sex Body On Trial The Classical And Early Modern Evidence
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Author : Helen King
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-17
The One Sex Body On Trial The Classical And Early Modern Evidence written by Helen King and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-17 with History categories.
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.
