Una Storia Naturale Della Curiosit
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Una Storia Naturale Della Curiosit
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : it
Publisher: Feltrinelli Editore
Release Date : 2015-11-26T00:00:00+01:00
Una Storia Naturale Della Curiosit written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Feltrinelli Editore this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-26T00:00:00+01:00 with Literary Criticism categories.
“Sono curioso della curiosità”: così inizia questo testo in cui Alberto Manguel, guidato da una galleria di pensatori, scrittori e artisti, indaga quel che dalla notte dei tempi è stato lo stimolo che spinge la conoscenza. Una delle prime parole che pronunciamo quando siamo bambini è “perché?”. Una volta imparata la domanda, non smettiamo mai di formularla, anche se presto scopriamo che la curiosità è raramente ricompensata con risposte rivelatrici. In "Una storia naturale della curiosità" confluiscono molti anni di letture, scrittura e pensieri incoraggiati da una passione e una vivacità travolgenti: nulla che possa interessare alla curiosità umana gli è estraneo. In diciassette capitoli, dove i riferimenti letterari dialogano con le ultime scoperte scientifiche, Manguel traccia un percorso suggestivo e, come Dante decise di avere una guida per i suoi viaggi, Manguel ha voluto scegliere Dante come guida per il suo, e permettere che le domande che il poeta formula nella sua "Commedia" lo aiutino a tracciare la rotta delle sue.
Curiosity
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-01
Curiosity written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different contexts throughout the chapters of human history. Why does evil exist? What is beauty? How does language inform us? What defines our identity? What is our responsibility to the world? In Alberto Manguel's most personal book to date, the author tracks his own life of curiosity through the reading that has mapped his way. Manguel chooses as his guides a selection of writers who sparked his imagination. He dedicates each chapter to a single thinker, scientist, artist, or other figure who demonstrated in a fresh way how to ask "Why?" Leading us through a full gallery of inquisitives, among them Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Socrates, and, most importantly, Dante, Manguel affirms how deeply connected our curiosity is to the readings that most astonish us, and how essential to the soaring of our own imaginations.
Pliny The Elder Themes And Contexts
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Author : Roy Gibson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-04-11
Pliny The Elder Themes And Contexts written by Roy Gibson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-11 with History categories.
Pliny's Naturalis Historia is a sophisticated encyclopaedia of the riches of the ancient world. The contributors to the present volume represent and join a new generation of critics who have begun to examine the dominant motifs which give shape to the work.
A History Of Curiosity
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Author : Justin Stagl
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
A History Of Curiosity written by Justin Stagl and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Social Science categories.
First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a criticalhistorical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. He weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasising links between the figures, the philosophies and the literatures of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected. In focussing on the ars apodemica, or art of travelling'', a body of formal instructions on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, the author demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West.
Curiosity
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Author : Philip Ball
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Curiosity written by Philip Ball 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 2013-04-03 with History categories.
Originally published by Bodley Head, 2012.
Curiosit A A E Ricerche Di Storia Subalpina
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Author :
language : it
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Curiosit A A E Ricerche Di Storia Subalpina written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with categories.
Il Museo Di Storia Naturale Dell Universit Degli Studi Di Firenze Le Collezioni Geologiche E Paleontologiche The Museum Of Natural History Of The University Of Florence The Geological And Paleontological Collections
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Author : Simonetta Monechi
language : it
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2009
Il Museo Di Storia Naturale Dell Universit Degli Studi Di Firenze Le Collezioni Geologiche E Paleontologiche The Museum Of Natural History Of The University Of Florence The Geological And Paleontological Collections written by Simonetta Monechi and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Science categories.
The Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, is one of the oldest scientific museum in the world. With this third volume on the collections of the Geology and Paleontology Section, Firenze University Press continues its series dedicated to the six Sections of the Museum. The first part of the volume shows a detailed and fascinating descriptions of the history of this museum section's collections, the contribution of scholars who from the 17th century endeavoured to expand and study the Florentine geological-paleontological collections, and the importance of the collections to the development of modern geological-paleontological thinking. The second part describes and documents the collections, that are presented in geo-chronological order, divided into the Invertebrate, Vertebrate, Paleobotanical and Geological collections. In the last part are presented the most important activities and research projects, based on this important cultural heritage, carried out by the paleontologists of the University of Florence.
Ichthyology In Context 1500 1880
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Author : Paul J. Smith
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Ichthyology In Context 1500 1880 written by Paul J. Smith and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Science categories.
Ichthyology in Context (1500–1880) provides a broad spectre of early modern manifestations of human fascination with fish – “fish” understood in the early modern sense of the term, as aquatilia: all aquatic animals, including sea mammals and crustaceans. It addresses the period’s quickly growing knowledge about fish in its multiple, varied and rapidly changing interaction with culture. This topic is approached from various disciplines: history of science, cultural history, history of collections, historical ecology, art history, literary studies, and lexicology. Attention is given to the problematic questions of visual and textual representation of fish, and pre- and post-Linnean classification and taxonomy. This book also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge and items in and outside Europe. Contributors: Cristina Brito, Tobias Bulang, João Paulo S. Cabral, Florike Egmond, Dorothee Fischer, Holger Funk, Dirk Geirnaert, Philippe Glardon, Justin R. Hanisch, Bernardo Jerosch Herold, Rob Lenders, Alan Moss, Doreen Mueller, Johannes Müller, Martien J.P. van Oijen, Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Anne M. Overduin-de Vries, Theodore W. Pietsch, Cynthia Pyle, Marlise Rijks, Paul J. Smith, Ronny Spaans, Robbert Striekwold, Melinda Susanto, Didi van Trijp, Sabina Tsapaeva, and Ching-Ling Wang.
The Ambitions Of Curiosity
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Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-21
The Ambitions Of Curiosity written by G. E. R. Lloyd 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 2002-10-21 with History categories.
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The Athenaeum
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1839
The Athenaeum written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1839 with England categories.