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Lumen Naturae

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Author : Matilde Marcolli
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-05-26

Lumen Naturae written by Matilde Marcolli and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Mathematics categories.

Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos. This is a book about art—and a book about mathematics and physics. In Lumen Naturae (the title refers to a purely immanent, non-supernatural form of enlightenment), mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli explores common themes in modern art and modern science—the concept of space, the notion of randomness, the shape of the cosmos, and other puzzles of the universe—while mapping convergences with the work of such artists as Paul Cezanne, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt, and Lee Krasner. Her account, focusing on questions she has investigated in her own scientific work, is illustrated by more than two hundred color images of artworks by modern and contemporary artists. Thus Marcolli finds in still life paintings broad and deep philosophical reflections on space and time, and connects notions of space in mathematics to works by Paul Klee, Salvador Dalí, and others. She considers the relation of entropy and art and how notions of entropy have been expressed by such artists as Hans Arp and Fernand Léger; and traces the evolution of randomness as a mode of artistic expression. She analyzes the relation between graphical illustration and scientific text, and offers her own watercolor-decorated mathematical notebooks. Throughout, she balances discussions of science with explorations of art, using one to inform the other. (She employs some formal notation, which can easily be skipped by general readers.) Marcolli is not simply explaining art to scientists and science to artists; she charts unexpected interdependencies that illuminate the universe.

Landscapes And Societies

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Author : I. Peter Martini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-11-09

Landscapes And Societies written by I. Peter Martini and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-09 with Science categories.

This book contains case histories intended to show how societies and landscapes interact. The range of interest stretches from the small groups of the earliest Neolithic, through Bronze and Iron Age civilizations, to modern nation states. The coexistence is, of its very nature reciprocal, resulting in changes in both society and landscape. In some instances the adaptations may be judged successful in terms of human needs, but failure is common and even the successful cases are ephemeral when judged in the light of history. Comparisons and contrasts between the various cases can be made at various scales from global through inter-regional, to regional and smaller scales. At the global scale, all societies deal with major problems of climate change, sea-level rise, and with ubiquitous problems such as soil erosion and landscape degradation. Inter-regional differences bring out significant detail with one region suffering from drought when another suffers from widespread flooding. For example, desertification in North Africa and the Near East contrasts with the temperate countries of southern Europe where the landscape-effects of deforestation are more obvious. And China and Japan offer an interesting comparison from the standpoint of geological hazards to society - large, unpredictable and massively erosive rivers in the former case, volcanoes and accompanying earthquakes in the latter. Within the North African region localized climatic changes led to abandonment of some desertified areas with successful adjustments in others, with the ultimate evolution into the formative civilization of Egypt, the "Gift of the Nile". At a smaller scale it is instructive to compare the city-states of the Medieval and early Renaissance times that developed in the watershed of a single river, the Arno in Tuscany, and how Pisa, Siena and Florence developed and reached their golden periods at different times depending on their location with regard to proximity to the sea, to the main trunk of the river, or in the adjacent hills. Also noteworthy is the role of technology in opening up opportunities for a society. Consider the Netherlands and how its history has been formed by the technical problem of a populous society dealing with too much water, as an inexorably rising sea threatens their landscape; or the case of communities in Colorado trying to deal with too little water for farmers and domestic users, by bringing their supply over a mountain chain. These and others cases included in the book, provide evidence of the successes, near misses and outright failures that mark our ongoing relationship with landscape throughout the history of Homo sapiens. The hope is that compilations such as this will lead to a better understanding of the issue and provide us with knowledge valuable in planning a sustainable modus vivendi between humanity and landscape for as long as possible. Audience: The book will interest geomorphologists, geologists, geographers, archaeologists, anthropologists, ecologists, environmentalists, historians and others in the academic world. Practically, planners and managers interested in landscape/environmental conditions will find interest in these pages, and more generally the increasingly large body of opinion in the general public, with concerns about Planet Earth, will find much to inform their opinions. Extra material: The color plate section is available at http://extras.springer.com

The Cultural Politics Of Blood 1500 1900

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Author : Kimberly Anne Coles
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-01-26

The Cultural Politics Of Blood 1500 1900 written by Kimberly Anne Coles and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with History categories.

The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing hierarchies.

Elements Of Natural History Being An Introduction To The Systema Naturae Of Linnaeus Etc

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Author : Carl von Linne ́
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801

Elements Of Natural History Being An Introduction To The Systema Naturae Of Linnaeus Etc written by Carl von Linne ́ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with categories.

De Naturae Natura

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Author : Alexander Jacob
language : en
Publisher: Arktos
Release Date : 2011

De Naturae Natura written by Alexander Jacob and has been published by Arktos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Philosophy categories.

This study of European natural philosophy begins with the classical conceptions of Mind, Soul, Nature and the Unconscious and analyses the revival of these notions in the natural philosophy of the Renaissance and the Seventeenth century. The concept of the Unconscious acquired a major importance in the systems of the German vitalist biologists and the Idealistic philosophers of the Nineteenth century. Jacob shows how these various thinkers, as well as the German Romantic philosophers, and especially Schubert, Carus, Schopenhauer, and Hartmann, not only revived the ancient doctrines of the Soul in their metaphysical schemes but also anticipated the psychological theories of Jung, who, as a psychologist and philosopher, serves as the culminating point of the work. In the Appendix, the author points to the natural philosophical bases of the discussions of racial differences that emerged in the Nineteenth century alongside the investigations into the spiritual capacities of mankind. Alexander Jacob obtained his Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Pennsylvania State University and is the author of Nobilitas: A Study of Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century, and Atman: A Reconstruction of the Solar Cosmology of the Indo-Europeans. His major editions of German conservative political thinkers include Edgar Julius Jung: 's The Rule of the Inferiour, the anthology Europa: German Conservative Foreign Policy 1870-1940, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Political Ideals.

Nature And Society

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Author : Philippe Descola
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Nature And Society written by Philippe Descola and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Ethnology categories.

Science Religion And Politics In Restoration England

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Author : Jonathan Bruce Parkin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 1999

Science Religion And Politics In Restoration England written by Jonathan Bruce Parkin and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with England categories.

A new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration England, based on discussion of Cumberland's De legibus naturae. Richard Cumberland is one of the seventeenth century's most interesting political theorists. His masterpiece, the De legibus naturae(1672), has rarely been examined on its own terms, but by tracing the political, religiousand intellectual circumstances of the composition of this puzzling work, and showing its importance as a critique of Thomas Hobbes, author of the Leviathan, Dr Parkin demonstrates how Cumberland created a new political andethical theory which absorbed and neutralised many of Hobbes's insights. He also examines the science of the Royal Society as a basis for Cumberland's natural law theory and its influence on such thinkers as Samuel Pufendorf and John Locke. Overall, the book provides an important new perspective on the interaction of science, religion and politics in Restoration England. Dr JON PARKIN teaches in the Department of History at King's College, London.

Library Bulletin

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880

Library Bulletin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.

Nomenclature Systematics Of Tropidacris Europidacris Orthoptera Acridoidea Romaleidae Notulae Naturae Of The Acad Of Natural Sciences Of Phila No 461

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language : en
Publisher: Academy of Natural Sciences
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Nomenclature Systematics Of Tropidacris Europidacris Orthoptera Acridoidea Romaleidae Notulae Naturae Of The Acad Of Natural Sciences Of Phila No 461 written by and has been published by Academy of Natural Sciences this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

A Biographical Bibliography

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Author : Trevor Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Založba ZRC
Release Date : 2020

A Biographical Bibliography written by Trevor Shaw and has been published by Založba ZRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.

Knjiga je digitalizirana verzija kartotečnih listov o osnovnih podatkih raziskovalcev in obiskovalcev krasa, ki jih je vrsto let zbiral zgodovinar krasoslovja, Trevor Shaw. V njej je po abecedi razvrščenih nekaj nad 4600 oseb iz vsega sveta, najzgodnejša imena so še iz antike. Struktura gesel je zelo osnovna: imenu sledijo biografski podatki in kratke opis, ob koncu pa je izbrana bibliografija, kot vir tega zapisa.