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Wonder and Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Wonder and Science

During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronom...

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

The Gendering of Men, 1600-1750

"The queer man's mode of embodiment--his gestural and vocal style, his posture and gait, his occupation of space--remembers a political history. To gesture with the elbow held close to the body, to affect a courtly lisp, or to set an arm akimbo with the hand turned back on the hip is to cite a history in which the sovereign body became the effeminate and sodomitical and, finally, the homosexual body. In Queer Articulations, Thomas A. King argues that the Anglo-American queer body publicizes a history of resistance to the gendered terms whereby liberal subjectivities were secured in early modern England. Arguing that queer agency preceded and enabled the formulation of queer subjectivities, Q...

The International Camellia Register
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1136

The International Camellia Register

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Disknowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Disknowledge

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.

Official Register of Legally Qualified Physicians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 346

Official Register of Legally Qualified Physicians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1886
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Bengal Obituary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 506

The Bengal Obituary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1851
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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History, gazetteer and directory of Cambridgeshire. Subscribers copy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 768

History, gazetteer and directory of Cambridgeshire. Subscribers copy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1851
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2309

Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1908
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Educational reporter (and science teachers' review).
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

The Educational reporter (and science teachers' review).

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1869
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the County Palatine of Lancaster

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1825
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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