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The Journal of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp
This book presents an English translation of the 1639 journal of Dutch naval commander Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598-1653), who led the Dutch fleet in a decisive victory over the Spanish at the Battle of the Downs during that year. A highly detailed introduction, illustrative figures and a bibliography are included.
Tromp's Last Stand
Jake Tromp's wife has left him. But he still has his guns. He makes do, operating as a private eye from a second-floor office, next to a prostitute's parlour. What else is an old South African to do in a new country? Tromp chooses his clients unwisely. Like the man who instructs him to kidnap a shady businessman's daughter. Only, is it the right girl Tromp and his fumbling assistant Frikkie capture? Soon they shackled with two kidnapped girls, one of whom is more street-savvy than Tromp and Frikkie put together. Not only does the sassy lass hit it off with Omo, her Nigerian keeper, she also starts managing her own kidnapping. From Florida her rich Cuban dady - believing Fidel Castro to be be...
Science of Microscopy
This fully corrected second impression of the classic 2006 text on microscopy runs to more than 1,000 pages and covers up-to-the-minute developments in the field. The two-volume work brings together a slew of experts who present comprehensive reviews of all the latest instruments and new versions of the older ones, as well as their associated operational techniques. The chapters draw attention to their principal areas of application. A huge range of subjects are benefiting from these new tools, including semiconductor physics, medicine, molecular biology, the nanoworld in general, magnetism, and ferroelectricity. This fascinating book will be an indispensable guide for a wide range of scientists in university laboratories as well as engineers and scientists in industrial R&D departments.
Trompmeister 7
After four months of hitchhiking through the Netherlands and Scandinavia, Niels decides to go on one more adventure before the summer comes to an end. No more hitching, only walking this time. Well, that's about all he has decided for this new journey. He takes the train to Maastricht, close to the borders of Belgium and Germany, and starts heading east. Since Pet Shop Boys and Village People are not always correct, this might actually be the right direction for him. Crossing the hills and forests of Germany, he slowly finds his way to collect what he came for, a real German: ' . E T T E R . . . S . . E N ' Niels Tromp is a Dutch hitcher, hiker, writer, illustrator and especially dreamer, who spends his days propagandising a lifestyle, which is financially extremely attractive, but at the very same time commercially totally worthless. * This book contains a certificate which can be stamped at Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Censura Librorum Et Propositionum Bellarminiana
The opening of the archives of the Roman Inquisition and of the Index of Prohibited Books, in January 1998, enables us to think afresh about the history of two organisations more notorious than understood. Both have been considered, almost exclusively, from the perspective of their victims, such as Galileo Galilei. This book uses hitherto secret sources of the Inquisition and Index to reconstruct the history of Roman censorship in its first, formative years from the standpoint of Galileo's judge. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) was a censor for the Index and a "consultor" to the Holy Office, before becoming cardinal-inquisitor and (three centuries after his death) a saint and Doctor of the Chu...
