The Spatial Infinite At Greenwich In Works By Christopher Wren James Thornhill And James Thomson
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The Spatial Infinite At Greenwich In Works By Christopher Wren James Thornhill And James Thomson
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Author : Ann Stewart Balakier
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 1995
The Spatial Infinite At Greenwich In Works By Christopher Wren James Thornhill And James Thomson written by Ann Stewart Balakier and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
The Greenwich connection with Newtonian science is exemplified by Sir Christopher Wren's spatially-extended, open-center design for the Greenwich Naval Hospital complex, the site of the Royal Observatory, and his application of Newtonian "conics" to the site.
Benezit Dictionary Of British Graphic Artists And Illustrators
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Author : Stephen Bury
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Benezit Dictionary Of British Graphic Artists And Illustrators written by Stephen Bury and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Art categories.
This dictionary consists of over 3000 entries on a range of British artists, from medieval manuscript illuminators to contemporary cartoonists. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on British graphic artists and illustrators from the '2006 Benezit Dictionary of Artists' with an additional 90 revised and 60 new articles.
Mathematics At The Meridian
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Author : Raymond Flood
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-11-11
Mathematics At The Meridian written by Raymond Flood and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Mathematics categories.
Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. Early Astronomers Royal gathered astronomical data with the purpose of enabling navigators to compute their longitude at sea. Nevil Maskelyne in the 18th century organised the work of computing tables for the Nautical Almanac, anticipating later methods used in safety-critical computing systems. The 19th century saw influential critiques of Charles Babbage’s mechanical calculating engines, and in the 20th century Leslie Comrie and others pioneered the automation of computation. The arrival of the Royal Naval College in 1873 and the University of Greenwich in 1999 has brought more mathematicians and different kinds of mathematics to Greenwich. In the 21st century computational mathematics has found many new applications. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements. Features A scholarly but accessible history of mathematics at Greenwich, from the seventeenth century to the present day, with each chapter written by an expert in the field The book will appeal to astronomical and naval historians as well as historians of mathematics and scientific computing.
Thomas Traherne And The Felicities Of The Mind
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language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
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Thomas Traherne And The Felicities Of The Mind written by and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Looking For Longitude
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Author : Katy Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Looking For Longitude written by Katy Barrett and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with History categories.
Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
Reader S Guide To Women S Studies
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Author : Eleanor Amico
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1998-03-20
Reader S Guide To Women S Studies written by Eleanor Amico and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-03-20 with Reference categories.
The Reader's Guide to Women's Studies is a searching and analytical description of the most prominent and influential works written in the now universal field of women's studies. Some 200 scholars have contributed to the project which adopts a multi-layered approach allowing for comprehensive treatment of its subject matter. Entries range from very broad themes such as "Health: General Works" to entries on specific individuals or more focused topics such as "Doctors."
Mural Painting In Britain 1630 1730
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Author : Lydia Hamlett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-20
Mural Painting In Britain 1630 1730 written by Lydia Hamlett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-20 with Art categories.
This book illuminates the original meanings of seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century mural paintings in Britain. At the time, these were called ‘histories’. Throughout the eighteenth century, though, the term became directly associated with easel painting and, as ‘history painting’ achieved the status of a sublime genre, any link with painted architectural interiors was lost. Whilst both genres contained historical figures and narratives, it was the ways of viewing them that differed. Lydia Hamlett emphasises the way that mural paintings were experienced by spectators within their architectural settings. New iconographical interpretations and theories of effect and affect are considered an important part of their wider historical, cultural and social contexts. This book is intended to be read primarily by specialists, graduate and undergraduate students with an interest in new approaches to British art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Celestial Aspirations
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Author : Philip Hardie
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-03
Celestial Aspirations written by Philip Hardie and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03 with Art categories.
A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artists Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that period exploited classical representations of these soaring themes—through philosophical, scientific and poetic flights of the mind; the ascension of the disembodied soul; and the celestial glorification of the ruler. From textual reachings for the heavens in Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne and Cowley, to the ceiling paintings of Rubens, Verrio and Thornhill, Philip Hardie focuses on the ways that the history, ideologies and aesthetics of the postclassical world received and transformed the ideas of antiquity. In England, narratives of ascent appear on the grandest scale in Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic built around a Christian plot of falling and rising, and one of the most intensely classicizing works of English poetry. Examining the reception of flight up to the Romanticism of Wordsworth and Tennyson, Hardie considers the Whig sublime, as well as the works of Alexander Pope and Edward Young. Throughout, he looks at motivations both public and private for aspiring to the heavens—as a reward for political and military achievement on the one hand, and as a goal of individual intellectual and spiritual exertion on the other. Celestial Aspirations offers an intriguing look at how creative minds reworked ancient visions of time and space in the early modern era.
Bibliographic Guide To Art And Architecture
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Author : New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Bibliographic Guide To Art And Architecture written by New York Public Library. Art and Architecture Division and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Architecture categories.
Cross Bias
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Cross Bias written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.