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Web of Nature

Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Web of Nature

Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

By: Anna Marie Roos

This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known that he invented the histogram, provided Newton with alloys, and donated the first significant natural history collections to the Ashmolean Museum. Just as Lister was the first to make a systematic study of spiders and their webs, this biography is the first to analyze the significant webs of knowledge, patronage, and familial and gender relationships that governed his life as a scientist and physician.

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9004207031

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Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

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Martin Folkes (1690-1754): Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur is a cultural and intellectual biography of the only President of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. Sir Isaac Newton's protégé, astronomer, mathematician, freemason, art connoisseur, Voltaire's friend and Hogarth's patron, his was an intellectually vibrant world. Folkes was possibly the best-connected natural philosopher and antiquary of his age, an epitome of Enlightenment sociability, and yet he was a surprisingly neglected figure, the long shadow of Newton eclipsing his brilliant disciple. A complex figure, Folkes edited Newton's posthumous works in biblical chronology, yet was a religious skeptic and one of the first members of the gentry to marry an actress. His interests were multidisciplinary, from his authorship of the first complete history of the English coinage, to works concerning ancient architecture, statistical probability, and astronomy. Rich archival material, including Folkes's travel diary, correspondence, and his library and art collections permit reconstruction through Folkes's eyes of what it was like to be a collector and patron, a Masonic freethinker, and antiquarian and virtuoso in the days before 'science' became sub-specialised. Folkes's virtuosic sensibility and possible role in the unification of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society tells against the historiographical assumption that this was the age in which the 'two cultures' of the humanities and sciences split apart, never to be reunited. In Georgian England, antiquarianism and 'science' were considered largely part of the same endeavour.

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Oxford University Press

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0192565656

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Goldfish

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Goldfish

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Living work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural artifact. A creature of supposedly little memory and a short lifespan, it has held universal appeal as a reservoir for human ideas and ideals. In ancient China, goldfish were saved from predators in acts of religious reverence and selectively bred for their glittering grace. In the East, they became the subject of exquisite art, regarded as living flowers that moved, while in the West, they became ubiquitous residents of the Victorian parlor. Cheap and eminently available, today they are bred by the millions for the growing domestic pet market, while also proving to be important to laboratory studies of perception, vision, and intelligence. In this illuminating homage to the goldfish, Anna Marie Roos blends art and science to trace the surprising and intriguing history of this much-loved animal, challenging our cultural preconceptions of a creature often thought to be common and disposable.

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Reaktion Books

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1789141702

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The Salt of the Earth

Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750

By: Anna Marie Roos

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The Salt of the Earth

Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750

By: Anna Marie Roos

Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been previously available. Its exploration of natural history’s and medicine’s intersection with chemical investigation in early modern England demonstrates the growing importance of the senses and experience as causes of intellectual change from 1650-1750. It demonstrates that an understanding of the changing definitions of “salt” is also crucial to a historical comprehension of the transition between alchemy and chemistry.

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9047421418

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Conchophilia

Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

By: Marisa Anne Bass,Anne Goldgar,Hanneke Grootenboer,Stephanie S. Dickey,Claudia Swan,Anna Grasskamp,Róisín Watson

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Conchophilia

Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

By: Marisa Anne Bass,Anne Goldgar,Hanneke Grootenboer,Stephanie S. Dickey,Claudia Swan,Anna Grasskamp,Róisín Watson

A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--

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Princeton University Press

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0691215766

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Goldfish

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The Salt of the Earth

Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750

By: Anna Marie Eleanor Roos

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The Salt of the Earth

Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750

By: Anna Marie Eleanor Roos

Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry. No reliable study on this subject has been previously available. Its exploration of natural history's and medicine's intersection with chemical investigation in early modern England demonstrates the growing importance of the senses and experience as causes of intellectual change from 1650-1750. It demonstrates that an understanding of the changing definitions of "salt" is also crucial to a historical comprehension of the transition between alchemy and chemistry.

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9004161767

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Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

By: Anna Marie Roos

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Newtonian, Antiquary, Connoisseur

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Anna Marie Magazine Vol #3

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Anna Marie Magazine Vol #3

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Anna Marie Magazine Vol #3 featuring Anna Marie, Tyler Perry, Pastor Jamal H. Bryant, J Hosta, Tekiendria Batts, Jimazha, Keith Goodwin, Sonya D'Zines, Kasiris Xavier, Calik Still Sik and Elder Johnson.

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Web of Nature

Web of Nature

Web of Nature

Web of Nature

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Goldfish

Goldfish

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

Conchophilia

Conchophilia

Goldfish

Goldfish

The Salt of the Earth

The Salt of the Earth

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Martin Folkes (1690-1754)

Anna Marie Magazine Vol #3

Anna Marie Magazine Vol #3

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