The case of Mr. John Harrison
Author | : John Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1773 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The case of Mr. John Harrison Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Download The Case Of Mr John Harrison full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Case Of Mr John Harrison ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author | : John Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1773 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John SCOTT (Principal of the Wesleyan Training Institution, Westminster.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1767* |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Scott (Principal of the Wesleyan Training Institution, Westminster.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Great Britain. Courts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Ecclesiastical law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Phillimore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Ecclesiastical law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Some vols. include the museum's Annual report.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Katy Barrett |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2022-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1802070974 |
Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
Author | : Edwin Wolf |
Publisher | : American Philosophical Society |
Total Pages | : 1012 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780871692573 |
Beginning in the 1950s, Edwin Wolf 2nd embarked on a biblio'l. quest to reconstruct the library of Benjamin Franklin, which was the largest & best private library in Amer. at the time of his death & was subsequently dispersed. The contents of Franklin's library were virtually unknown until Wolf identified the unique shelfmarks that Franklin used to organize his books. That discovery allowed Wolf to locate 2,700 titles in 1,000 vols. that Franklin actually owned. Wolf also identified a further 700 titles owned by Franklin. After wolf's death, Kevin Hayes took up the project & brought it to fruition. This catalogue includes almost 4,000 books known to have been owned by Franklin, & the Intro. tells the complete story of Franklin's library, its dispersal, & its reconstruction.