Alhacen on Image-Formation and Distortion in Mirrors
Contents: (A) Alhacen's Analysis of Image-Distortion in Mirrors: An Overview; The Sources for Alhacen's Analysis and Its Reception in the Latin West; Conclusion; (B) Manuscripts and Editing; (C) Latin Text: Ch. 1; Ch. 2; Ch. 3: Analysis of Plane Mirrors: Proposition (Prop.) 1; Ch. 4: Analysis of Convex Spherical Mirrors: Prop. 2-15; Ch. 5: Analysis of Convex Cylindrical Mirrors: Prop. 16-19; Ch. 6: Analysis of Convex Conical Mirrors: Prop. 20-22; Ch. 7: Analysis of Concave Spherical Mirrors: Prop. 33-36; Ch. 8: Analysis of Concave Cylindrical Mirrors: Prop. 37 and 38. Figures for Translation and Commentary. Illus.
The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs, 1896
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An Unusual Newly Discovered Archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Virginia, U. S. A.
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Lying With Sunflowers
This is a beautiful little poetry book on love of humanity, love of animals and love of nature. It is tribute to the resilience of the human psyche when faced with seemingly insurmountable moments of grief and sorrow and it is salve for the soul of those who love deeply and feel an unbreakable connection with humanity in general. Greg has seen so much sorrow in his days of doctoring in intensive care and he has also seen the exhilaration and gratitude when a patient rebounds and recovers almost miraculously. This depth of feeling is woven throughout the poems in this beautiful little book of soul.
Alaskan Adventure
Alaskan Adventure gives a sneak peek into some of the awesome activities and sights in Alaska. The poetic wording provides a rhythmic and lively experience for ages 2 and up.
Done in a Day
Named one of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of the year.A searing reflection on the last day of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of foreign reporting in the nation's daily newspapers. Done in a Day turns on a single event: the April 30, 1975, departure of the last helicopter evacuating civilians from the rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Elisa Tamarkin's interest in that helicopter begins with the fact that her stepfather, the Saigon bureau chief for the Chicago Daily News, was on it--the last American correspondent to leave Saigon as it fell. His report was filed from a naval ship on the South China Sea at a time when no other telexes were going through. Now, more than fifty years later, Tamarkin offers a social and cultural autopsy of that moment, based in personal history but vividly unfolding amid the vast documentation of America's obvious defeat, which never seemed to register even as it got out, in the writings of journalists and essayists, in the backchannel cables between US ambassador Graham Martin and Henry Kissinger, in congressional hearings, and in photographs of the war's end. The story is also set against the imminent disappearance of war coverage in city newspapers--and of the newspapers themselves--once proud, in the words of the Chicago Daily News, of bringing readers the "literature of the day" that was "done in a day." Done in a Day braids history, criticism, and memoir to tell the paired stories of Saigon's liberation and the demise of the news. The result is a haunting essay about all that ended in a day--and about what it means to recognize and to write about endings even as we live through them.
The Possibility of Tenderness
Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect."--Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary book from a brilliant writer. A new song of the earth."--Robert MacfarlaneFrom an exciting new voice in international literature, a profoundly moving memoir that explores the Black experience in the natural world and the transformative power of plants.Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in the May Day Mountains of Jamaica. The cycles of his boyhood revolved around tending the plots of cabbage, tomatoes, and yams dotting the clay hillsides; playing beneath the cavernous roots of cotton trees; and climbing trunks of the fruit trees that fed him and his grandmother. But as a student of the literature of colonial England, in which the landscape of heather and moors has long been thought of as ideal, these years of subsistence and community evoked more shame than pride, and a language for the natural world that surrounded him remained elusive.Years after leaving the island to attend university in England, and eventually achieving a position as a lecturer in Leeds, he finds himself "alienated from land, from planting, from watching things grow." Walking among the trees in Yorkshire, he wonders how his own body will be perceived and can't help but think of the epidemic of anti-Black violence across the Western world. He returns to Jamaica and the intimate archives of knowledge in his late grandmother's grung, determined to reclaim his cultural inheritance, and ultimately to rediscover a "second life of seeing," based on old ways of knowing."A beautiful and urgent work of productive experimentation and philosophical reckoning" (Kwame Dawes), The Possibility of Tenderness is a book for our time.
Richard Dawkins' theories of the origin of life
The Origin pf Life by chance is a fiction based on existing life.
From Plato's Academy to Snellman College
This booklet reflects on the unique role of General Studies (studium generalia or studium fundamentale) within the curriculum of Snellman College, a Waldorf-Steiner oriented higher education institution in Helsinki, Finland. Tracing the historical and philosophical roots of these general studies, the author situates Snellman College in the broader continuum of perennial universitas thinking and highlights the college's distinct educational mission, which diverges from both university and vocational training models in contemporary Finland.
Natural History of the World
A stunning look at Earth's wildlife and natural history, including rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi and more! Arranged by climatic conditions and habitats, Natural History of the World offers a broad overview of the most important animals and vegetation in each region. These areas help us understand the ranges of plants and animals, including identifying species that may be under threat from habitat loss. Climate zones can even help farmers and gardeners understand which plants will grow best in their area. From the arid, desolate Sahara, the largest hot desert in the world where temperatures can exceed 40簞C (100簞F), to Macap獺 in Brazil where the tropical monsoon climate means over six months of rain from December to July every year, marvel at the beauty and variety that exists on our planet and has done so for millions of years. Striking imagery is accompanied with easy-to-read, accessible information, making it a riveting, essential history. Natural History of the World is an explorative, pictorial guide to every environment on the planet and how nature has evolved to live there, ranging from the Mesozoic Era to the present day.
Forest Sovereignty
"Forest Sovereignty is a startling new book reconsidering our relationship to nature. Tague has written a nonfiction version of Richard Powers's novel The Overstory. His careful, confident textual dismantling of the liberal-conventional account of private property gives way to something more elemental. Tague speaks for the trees." - Clayton Shoppa, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Francis College "Forest Sovereignty rereads political philosophy from Hobbes to Marx to advance an incisive theory of forest freedom recognizing the mutualistic self-governance of fungi, flora, and fauna. Passionately argued, the book issues a timely call for preserving and expanding the planet's remaining great forests while radically greening humankind's increasingly urban future." - John C. Ryan, Ph.D., Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia The book examines plants, animals, and political philosophy in a claim for a forest state of Gaia. It argues that humans should set aside and leave to their growth vast tracts of forests, wetlands, and grasslands. Biologists surmise that immense and undisturbed interlocking networks of forests, wetlands, grasslands, seas, oceans, etc. constitute a thermodynamic system of atmospheric integrity maintaining environmental health. Modern human mechanical intrusion into nature's realm has upset planetary homeostasis. One path to reestablishing climate fitness would not only be to preserve what remains but also to rewild additional forest, wetland, and grassland areas. There's an ethical claim in saying forests have incalculable value because their intrinsic qualities of growth, metamorphosis, and decay are instrumental in creating and maintaining healthy ecosystems that constitute earth's biosphere.
Nutraceuticals
The global nutraceutical and health supplement market is experiencing unprecedented growth. Nutraceuticals: Global Regulatory Status and Challenges provides a comprehensive overview of global regulatory frameworks, empowering professionals to understand and comply with varying standards.
Neuroquantology - The Psychedelic Universe - The Doors of Perception
Psychedelics help in communicating with quantal reality and quantal life. Psychedelics have aromatic rings structure like phenolic compounds and benzene which have macroscopic quantal states and have a wave-particle existence. They can open up ion channels in the neurons and create electron gradients. The electron can exist in multiple superpositions in the multiverse and this helps the psychedelics to help the brain communicate with quantal reality. Psychedelic experiences include fractal geometries and 3-dimensional constructs. It also includes figures like angels and demons. They are algorithmic intelligence structured in quantal foam and quantal vacuum constituting quantal life forms. They are not similar to physical intelligence but can be termed as post-biologic intelligence. The quantal life forms and post-biologic life or algorithmic life structured in quantal reality constitute God-like intelligence.
Chronic Arthritis in Wild Mammals. Being a Description of Lesions Found in the Collections of Several Museums and from a Pathological Service
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A Commentary on Loureiro's Flora Cochinchinensis
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A Search for Fluctuations in the Sun's Thermal Radiation Through Their Influence on Terrestrial Temperature
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Documentary History of the Problem of Fall from Kepler to Newton
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Phytoplankton and Planktonic Protozoa of the Offshore Waters of the Gulf of Maine
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Paleocene Faunas of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
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Scientific Papers of James Logan
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Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas of the North Coalinga Region of California. a Contribution to the Study of Pal疆ontologic Correlation in the Great Basin and Pacific Coast Provinces
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The Feeding Habits of Pseudomyrmine and Other Ants
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The Secular Variations of the Elements of the Orbits of the Four Inner Planets Computed for the Epoch 1850.0 G. M. T.
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The Carcasses of the Mammoth and Rhinoceros Found in the Frozen Ground of Siberia
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175 Parabolic Orbits and Other Results Deduced from Over 6,200 Meteors
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A Review of the Doradid疆, a Family of South American Nematognathi, or Catfishes
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The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part I. Insectivora and Carnivora
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Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson
Some essays includs: Jefferson's Evolving Plans for a University for America; The Inductive Sciences of Education in the Early Republic; Jefferson's Indian Hall at the University of Virginia; The American Philosophical Society, 1743-46; Spanish Imperial Geography and the Early Republic in the Age of Jefferson; Andre Michaux, Jefferson, and the "Injunction of Science"; Jefferson, Inoculation, and the Norfolk Riots; Jefferson, Military Technology, and the State; Jefferson's Architecture as Applied Science; Jefferson's System for Working from Home; Polite Sociability and Jewish Migrants; Pursuit of Status in 18th-Century Pennsylvania; Jefferson and the Quest for Legacy. Illus.
Pathways Into the Study of Ancient Sciences
These essays offer a sampling of the incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise of David E. Pingree (1933-2005), Brown Univ. Professor of the History of Math. and Classics. His contributions to the history of science are immeasurable. Pingree defined science as "a systematic explanation of perceived or imaginary phenomena" "This broad view of science includes astronomy, mathematics, and other sciences with which we are familiar today as well as those subjects deemed nonscientific by today's standards, such as astrology and magic . . . ."[Pingree] repeatedly demonstrated that not only were each of these subjects worthy of study in their own right, but that in the Ancient and Medieval periods these fields were closely interconnected. Illus.
Report of the Pennsylvania Local Government Survey
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Hydrography of Monterey Bay, California.Thermal Conditions, 1929-1933
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Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898
Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a "touchstone" figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. "McTeague: A Story of San Francisco" secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any previous Amer. novel the Darwinian view of life that is the essential characteristic of all subsequent Naturalistic fictions. It thus marked as well the rejection of the Victorian Era's habitually idealistic representations of human nature and its basically religious world-view, offering instead a post-metaphysical portrait of the human condition that has remained popular in 20th-cent. literary and intellectual circles. Includes all of the known writings of Norris published between 11 April 1896 and 1897. Illus.
The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part V. Perissodactyla
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The Tribute Roll of Montezuma
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the American Philosophical Society
Commemorating the 275th anniversary of the American Philosophical Society (APS), Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the American Philosophical Society is a thought-provoking reissue of the 1843 Proceedings volume, which was published to celebrate the centennial of APS's founding. Complete with a new foreword by Robert M. Hauser, CEO of the APS from 2017 to 2025, this publication provides invaluable context, insights, and direct correspondences from mid-19th century America on a variety of topics and disciplines. An unvarnished look at the 1843 Society and selected theories and perspectives of its 322 Members, this publication reflects the strengths and weaknesses, the myopia and the promise of thought leaders in a young United States.
The Route of Columbus Along the North Coast of Haiti, and the Site of Navidad
Anatomy of the Rat
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The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part IV. Artiodactyla
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Antonius de Carlenis, O.P.
Examines the theory of subalternation as it was developed by one of Paul of Venice's readers shortly before the mid-15th cent., the archbishop of Amalfi, Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli. Contents: Intro.; Observations on the Manuscripts; Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli, "Questiones in IV libros Sententiarum," Prologue, QQ. 1 and 2; "Questiones in libros I-II Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis," L. I, QQ. 17,22; App. 1: Description of Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Canon, misc. 573; App. 2: Variant Incipit in the "Questiones in IV libros Sententiarum," Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Canon. misc. 573, fol. 172ra; App. 3: Tabula questionum. Antonius de Carlenis, "Questiones in libros I-II Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis" Chicago, Newberry Lib., Case MS 97,5.
Accounts of European Science, Technology, and Medicine Written by American Travelers Abroad, 1735-1860, in the Collections of the American Philosophical Society
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Part One: Preliminary Observations & Suggestions for Further Study; & Part Two: An Annotated Bibliography of Printed & Manuscript Holdings at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library.
Woman in Science
With an introduction on woman織s long struggle for things of the mind.
The American Journal of Science
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