Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, Paperback - Anthony Grafton

Reducere. Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also ...

The style of reading in Renaissance Europe, as seen in the margins of books and in the texts of Renaissance intellectuals themselves, is deftly cha...

Anthony Peake re-assesses the plays and novels of J.B. Priestley.

Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GraftonThe weapon of pedants, the scourge of undergraduates, the b te noire of the "new" liberated scholar: the low...

Reducere. As one of Currier & Ives's leading artists, Frances ("Fanny") Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was a major lithographer whose prints found their way into ho...

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Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tas...

Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

An in-depth and very thorough study of the technique of forecasting using Solar Returns from the popular author of "Horary Astrology Plain and Simp...

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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...

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Arguably the greatest American sculptor, Augustus Saint Gaudens (1848-1907) left a rich legacy of artwork including public monuments such as the Ad...

The narrator of The War of the Worlds is quick to discover that what appeared to be a falling star was, in fact, a metallic cylinder landing from M...

An eye-popping peek into entertainment industry from the magnetic force who has worked with an impeccable roster of stars throughout his storied ca...

Draws extensively on Collier's personal archive and on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and colleagues. It locates Collier and his wor...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides th...

The fourth catalogue devoted to the Wyvern Collection, an exceptional private collection of medieval and Renaissance art, comparable to the holding...

The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality th...

Reducere. Stratusphunk - George Russell was a unique figure in jazz. He was a theoretician, a composer of note, a working musician, and an educator. He began...

Sutherland House Classics is proud to bring back to print Julian Symons' The Tell-Tale Heart, an acclaimed and best-selling biography of Edgar Alla...

Reducere. 917In recent years controversy over the Catholic Church's stance on environmentalism has increased. In order to avoid the errors promoted by some e...

DescriptionPrior to his disappearance, Herbert Crowley was an innovator at the dawn of comics, and a defining figure of the early 20th century avan...

Late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, once viewed as periods of decline after the grandeur of Greece and Rome, are now understood as times of e...

A journey through the history of science and humankind's relationship with the night sky and the cosmos beyond, from the author of Royal Society Pr...

An exploration of Durer's career and legacy as an international traveling artist