The Buildings Of Peter Harrison
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The Buildings Of Peter Harrison
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Author : John Fitzhugh Millar
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-10-06
The Buildings Of Peter Harrison written by John Fitzhugh Millar and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-06 with Art categories.
Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.
Peter Harrison
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Author : Carl Bridenbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Peter Harrison written by Carl Bridenbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with History categories.
This illustrated story of America's first architect is based on material from a number of contemporary sources in the colonial period. Harrison's buildings reflect the classical mode, and they fortunately survived the Revolution. His designs include the King's Chapel, Boston; the Synagogue, Newport; and Christ Church, Cambridge. Originally published in 1949. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Peter Harrison 1716 1775 Drawings
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Author : John Millar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-15
Peter Harrison 1716 1775 Drawings written by John Millar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-15 with categories.
Peter Harrison, arguably the greatest architect ever to have lived in America, designed over 400 buildings on every known continent, as well as important furniture, but is little known today because his papers were destroyed by war. Drawings of all his known buildings and furniture are in this book, with short essays explaining Harrison's position.
Peter Harrison
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Author : Carl Bridenbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Peter Harrison written by Carl Bridenbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
Garden Houses And Privies
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Author : Peter Joel Harrison
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2002
Garden Houses And Privies written by Peter Joel Harrison and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Architecture categories.
An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as "garden houses"--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line drawings, including compelling details such as finials, doors, windows, and ventilators.
Peter Harrison 1716 1775
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Author : Charles Henry Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Peter Harrison 1716 1775 written by Charles Henry Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Architects categories.
Castles Of God
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Author : Peter Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2004
Castles Of God written by Peter Harrison and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.
Fences
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Author : Peter Joel Harrison
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1999
Fences written by Peter Joel Harrison and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Architecture categories.
Part I: Fences most elegant and useful designs of fences in the most fashionable taste. The whole comprehended in ninety-two plates, neatly drawn. Calculated to improve and refine the present taste, of all persons in all degrees of life. Part II: Fences of Cape Cod, a collection most complete of fences from Cape Cod and the environs. For country mansions, suburban villas, and cottages. Including in great detail balls, caps, finials, and urns.
Science And Religion
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Author : Yves Gingras
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-06-16
Science And Religion written by Yves Gingras and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-16 with Science categories.
Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer these questions, historian and sociologist of science Yves Gingras retraces the long history of the troubled relationship between science and religion, from the condemnation of Galileo for heresy in 1633 until his rehabilitation by John Paul II in 1992. He reconstructs the process of the gradual separation of science from theology and religion, showing how God and natural theology became marginalized in the scientific field in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In contrast to the dominant trend among historians of science, Gingras argues that science and religion are social institutions that give rise to incompatible ways of knowing, rooted in different methodologies and forms of knowledge, and that there never was, and cannot be, a genuine dialogue between them. Wide-ranging and authoritative, this new book on one of the fundamental questions of Western thought will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history of science and of religion as well as to general readers who are intrigued by the new and much-publicized conversations about the alleged links between science and religion.
The Territories Of Science And Religion
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Author : Peter Harrison
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-07
The Territories Of Science And Religion written by Peter Harrison 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 2017-03-07 with History categories.
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life. In The Territories of Science and Religion, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories, then puts it all back together again in a provocative, productive new way. By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them—thereby making it possible for us to learn from their true history, and see other possible ways that scientific study and the religious life might relate to, influence, and mutually enrich each other. A tour de force by a distinguished scholar working at the height of his powers, The Territories of Science and Religion promises to forever alter the way we think about these fundamental pillars of human life and experience.