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Author: Sir Charles BLAGDENPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Some Observations on Ancient Inks, with the proposal of a new method of recovering the legibility of decayed writings ... From the Philosophical Transactions [of the Royal Society].
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Author: Sir Charles BLAGDEN1785-1790
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Some Observations on Ancient Inks
Author: Sir Charles BlagdenPublisher:
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Category : Ink
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Inkface
Author: Miles P. GrierPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813950384
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
In Inkface, Miles P. Grier traces productions of Shakespeare's Othello from seventeenth-century London to the Metropolitan Opera in twenty-first-century New York. Grier shows how the painted stage Moor and the wife whom he theatrically stains became necessary types, reduced to objects of interpretation for a presumed white male audience. In an era of booming print production, popular urban theater, and increasing rates of literacy, the metaphor of Black skin as a readable, transferable ink became essential to a fraternity of literate white men who, by treating an elastic category of marked people as reading material, were able to assert authority over interpretation and, by extension, over the state, the family, and commerce. Inkface examines that fraternity’s reading of the world as well as the ways in which those excluded attempted to counteract it.
The Riddle of the Rosetta
Author: Jed Z. BuchwaldPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691233969
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A major new history of the race between two geniuses to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar tales in Egyptology—that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas Young and the French philologist Jean-François Champollion vied to be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta. Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single artifact, the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone reflected broader disputes about language, historical evidence, biblical truth, and the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint compelling portraits of Young and Champollion, two gifted intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion, swept up in the political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the scholars aligned with throne and altar, admired ancient Egypt and was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of the hieroglyphs. Taking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of the Kings, The Riddle of the Rosetta reveals the untold story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling discoveries.
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosThe British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Dictionary of Eighteenth-century British Philosophers: A-J
Author: John W. YoltonPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
This is a comprehensive reference source on 18th-century authors writing in the English language about philosophical ideas and issues. It features authors taken from 1689 through to the mid-19th century, the period beginning with John Locke and ending with Dugald Stewart. The word philosophical is used in a wide, 18th-century sense. Therefore, the Dictionary includes epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, education, politics, rhetoric, science, medicine, biology, geology, chemistry and theology.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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