The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science, Paperback

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The De incessu animalium forms an integral part of Aristotle's biological corpus and allows us to see, with some clarity and detail, his methodolog...

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DescriptionIs it possible that the most famous critic of quantum mechanics actually invented most of its fundamentally important concepts? Besides ...

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Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fie...

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Reducere. This book brings geometry to life with Euclid explaining the principles of Geometry to his friends. Full of fun, explanation and even jokes, thei i...

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A star falls from the sky. A woman rises from the sea. The world will never be the same.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert LomasEverybody knows that Thomas Edison devised electric light and domestic electricity supplies, that Guglielmo Mar...

Reducere. In this volume of selections from Aristotle, Justin D. Kaplan has included the most widely read, studied, and quoted works of the great philosopher...

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian d...

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A richly detailed graveyard history of the Florentine poet whose dead body shaped Italy from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the Risorgiment...

English translation of books 1 though 8 of Aristotle's Physics. Includes an alternative text of book 7, in the appendix.

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This is the first book in English to explore Aristotle's criticisms of earlier Greek theories of the soul. It investigates Aristotle's hylomorphic ...

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Stuart Kelly's biography of Sir Walter Scott defies classification in terms of genre. Rather than a literary biography, or critical study, it is a ...

Reducere. Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for ne...

Focusing on the philosophical registers of literary texts, Adam Meehan traces the development of modernist attitudes toward subjectivity, particula...

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DescriptionFrank William Epperson is a curious boy who wants to be an inventor when he grows up. Since inventing begins with experimenting, Frank s...

A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charle...

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The bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus, one of the most renowned and controversial Bible scholars in the world today examines oral tradition an...

A timely, ambitious and vivid history of freedom - and how it happens to be a uniquely British invention.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Daniel H...

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: AristotleIntroduction by: Renford BambroughCommentaries by: Renford BambroughMore than two thousand years ago, Aristotle es...

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Who invented the diving helmet? The First Treasure Divers reveals the true and fascinating story. It follows the lives of two brothers as they stru...

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