Author: Marco BerettaPublisher: Giunti Editore
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Starry Messenger and the Polar Star
Author: Marco BerettaPublisher: Giunti Editore
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Geometry Civilized
Author: J. L. HeilbronPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198506904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated book provides an unusually accessible approach to geometry by placing it in historical context. With concise discussions and carefully chosen illustrations the author brings the material to life by showing what problems motivated early geometers throughout the world. Geometry Civilized covers classical plane geometry, emphasizing the methods of Euclid but also drawing on advances made in China and India. It includes a wide range of problems, solutions, and illustrations, as well as a chapter on trigonometry, and prepares its readers for the study of solid geometry and conic sections.
Latin
Author: Françoise WaquetPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789608279
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Franoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's uses, its detractors and defenders, and the social hierarchies its practitioners inscribed. Granted a new lease of life by the Humanists and the Catholic Church, Latin was the form in which generations of schoolchildren were taught to read, millions of people worshipped, and an international community of scholars communicated with one another. It conveyed sacredness, but also obscenity; learning, as well as pedantry; science, but also trickery and mumbo-jumbo. Few individuals even among the clergy or the most learned scholars have ever managed to speak it with any degree of correctness or fluency, let alone elegance. Why, despite rationalist criticisms that Latin was inaccessible to the great majority of people, and inconvenient and time-consuming for the rest, did it maintain such a strong presence - some would say a tyranny - for so long?
Latin, Or, The Empire of the Sign
Author: Françoise WaquetPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859846155
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a work of reference and a piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Latin
Author: Francoise WaquetPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859844021
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries that explores how Latin came to dominate the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world.
Linnaeus in Italy
Author: Marco BerettaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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Author: The Linnean
Author: Linnean Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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