Virtuoso By Nature
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Virtuoso By Nature The Scientific Worlds Of Francis Willughby Frs 1635 1672
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Virtuoso By Nature The Scientific Worlds Of Francis Willughby Frs 1635 1672 written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with History categories.
Francis Willughby together with John Ray revolutionized the study of natural history. They were motivated by the new philosophy of the mid 1600s and transformed natural history in to a rigorous area of study. Because Ray lived longer and more of his writings have survived, his reputation subsequently eclipsed that of Willughby. Now, with access to previously unexplored archives and new discoveries we are able to provide a comprehensive evaluation of Francis Willughby’s life and works. What emerges is a polymath, a true virtuoso, who made original and imaginative contributions to mathematics, chemistry, linguistics as well as natural history. We use Willughby’s short life as a lens through which to view the entire process of seventeenth-century scientific endeavor. Contributors are Tim Birkhead, Isabelle Charmantier, David Cram, Meghan Doherty, Mark Greengrass, Daisy Hildyard, Dorothy Johnston, Sachiko Kusukawa, Brian Ogilvie, William Poole, Chris Preston, Anna Marie Roos, Richard Serjeantson, Paul J. Smith and Benjamin Wardhaugh.
Robert Boyle
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Author : Clara Miller Angar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
Robert Boyle written by Clara Miller Angar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with categories.
The Virtuoso As Subject
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Author : Zarko Cvejić
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-22
The Virtuoso As Subject written by Zarko Cvejić and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-22 with Music categories.
This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically disembodied, abstract, autonomous art and, moreover, a symbol or model – if only a utopian one – of a similarly autonomous and free human subject, whose freedom and autonomy seemed increasingly untenable in the economic and political context of post-Napoleonic Europe. That is why music, newly reconceived as radically abstract and autonomous, plays such an important part in the philosophy of early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, with their growing misgivings about the very possibility of human freedom, and not so much in the preceding generation of thinkers, such as Kant and Hegel, who still believed in the (transcendentally) free subject of the Enlightenment. For the early German Romantics, music becomes a model of human freedom, if freedom could exist. By contrast, virtuosity, irredeemably moored in the perishable human body, ephemeral, and beholden to such base motives as making money and gaining fame, is not only incompatible with music thus conceived, but also threatens to expose it as an illusion, in other words, as irreducibly corporeal, and, by extension, the human subject it was meant to symbolise as likewise an illusion. Only with that in mind, may we begin to understand the hostility of some early to mid-19th-century critics to instrumental virtuosity, which sometimes reached truly bizarre proportions. In order to accomplish this, the book looks at contemporary aesthetics and philosophy, the contemporary reception of virtuosity in performance and composition, and the impact of 19th-century gender ideology on the reception of some leading virtuosi, male and female alike.
Robert Jefferson
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Author : Rena Jefferson
language : en
Publisher: Richard Dennie Publication
Release Date : 2011-11-16
Robert Jefferson written by Rena Jefferson and has been published by Richard Dennie Publication this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-16 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Robert Jefferson truly was a multi-talented man expressing his gift for design in many ways. This book illustrates all aspects of his life's work so much of which centred round his intense love of nature.
John Locke
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Author : Victor Nuovo
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
John Locke written by Victor Nuovo and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Philosophy categories.
"Victor Nuovo represents the philosophical thought of John Locke as the work of a Christian virtuoso: an empirical natural philosopher, who was also a practising Christian. Locke believed that the two vocations were not only compatible, but mutually sustaining, and he aspired to unite them in producing a system of Christian philosophy." -- source : éditeur.
Christian Virtuoso Shewing Tha
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Author : Robert 1627-1691 Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-25
Christian Virtuoso Shewing Tha written by Robert 1627-1691 Boyle and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-25 with History categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The English Virtuoso
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Author : Craig A. Hanson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-05-15
The English Virtuoso written by Craig A. Hanson 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 2009-05-15 with Art categories.
This study aims to overturn 20th-century criticism that cast the English virtuosi of the 17th and early 18th centuries as misguided dabblers, arguing that they were erudite individuals with solid grounding in the classics, deep appreciation for the arts and sincere curiosity about the natural world.
Virtuoso
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Author : Riddhima Porwal
language : en
Publisher: The Little Booktique Hub
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Virtuoso written by Riddhima Porwal and has been published by The Little Booktique Hub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
Virtuoso means any person who is skilled in some artistic aspect. Each and every individual is an artist, all we need to do is dig out our emotions and express them in any form. Every form of art is therapeutic and comforting be it poetry, music, or dance. Art has a special power it helps us to think beyond what we see. We can portray our thoughts, fears, or strengths without being judged. A writer puts down a few words on a paper, which express emotions and bring life to the write-up. Artist can convince their readers to understand the meaning or depth behind their expressions. Art is a beautiful thing to be lost in, it is just like food for our souls. Art has a lot to learn, never stop the artist in you always let it grow. This book consists of around 40 such artists, who penned down their thoughts on several topics.
Christianity Antiquity And Enlightenment
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Author : Victor Nuovo
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-01-05
Christianity Antiquity And Enlightenment written by Victor Nuovo 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 2011-01-05 with History categories.
The volume will consist of a series of interpretative studies of Locke’s philosophical and religious thought in historical context and consider his contributions to the Enlightenment and modern liberal thought.
Virtuosity Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Susan Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Virtuosity Of The Nineteenth Century written by Susan Bernstein and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Music categories.
A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic and economic conflicts brought about by the rise of journalism, the book pursues the tension around performativity that both connects and separates music and writing. Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire. The acclaimed virtuoso functions both as a metaphor for a musical mode of enunciation and as a historical referent. This dual status dramatizes the struggle at the heart of nineteenth-century aesthetics between poetic self-reference and realism’s efforts to report the world accurately. Debates surrounding Liszt pinpoint the conflict between the view that locates sense in the process of its production and the contrary judgment privileging a stable meaning over the exteriority of its execution. This dualism also articulates the problematic relationship of the individual to general social and linguistic structures. The book’s analyses of nineteenth-century theories of correspondence, along with the thematization of the “other arts,” point to the limitations of analogy, the impossibility of a general theory of art, and a crisis of identity—that is, a shared non-identity—that can be the only common property among different discourses, genres, and media. Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century offers a fresh reading of relatively marginal texts by canonical figures, addressing questions about the relation between the arts, the possibility of critical description, and the function of performativity.