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European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Clare Vincent,Jan Hendrik Leopold,Elizabeth Sullivan

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European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Clare Vincent,Jan Hendrik Leopold,Elizabeth Sullivan

Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588395790

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International Law in Historical Perspective

Index

By: J. H. Jan Hendrik Willem Verzijl

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International Law in Historical Perspective

Index

By: J. H. Jan Hendrik Willem Verzijl

This volume completes the monumental, eleven-volume series, "International Law in Historical Perspective," which was published over a period of 24 years by Professor J.H.W. Verzijl (and continued after his death in 1987 by W.P. Heere and J.P.S. Offerhaus). This index volume provides insight into the series both for the uninitiated and initiated, enabling the user to access all 11 volumes (spanning a total of 6500 printed pages) quickly and easily. It contains a subject index, an index of personal names, of geographical names, of ships' names, a list of treaties, a list of international judgements and a list of international arbitrations. A list of Professor Verzijl's commentaries on the more recent jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice completes the volume.

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408

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Martinus Nijhoff Publishers

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9041105484

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9789041105486

Abraham Kuyper

A Pictorial Biography

By: Jan de Bruijn

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Abraham Kuyper

A Pictorial Biography

By: Jan de Bruijn

A portraint of Kuyper's life and work in photographs and documents, presented chronologically.--Page ix.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802869661

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9780802869661

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? an Historical Investigation Embodying a Criticism of Dr. Van Der Linde's "Gutenberg"

By: Jan Hendrik Hessels

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Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? an Historical Investigation Embodying a Criticism of Dr. Van Der Linde's "Gutenberg"

By: Jan Hendrik Hessels

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385107377

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9783385107373

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing

By: Jan Hendrik Hessels

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Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing

By: Jan Hendrik Hessels

Antiquæ Libri - The Archaeology of the Book - ATB-1302 --In this volume Jan Hendrik Hessels takes a critical look at the question "who invented printing with movable type"? While he affirms that Gutenberg was an important printer he does not feel that there was enough evidence to state that he was the inventor. Hessels was also the translator of Van der Linde's volume "The Haarlem legend of the invention of printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster

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Lulu.com

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1300819081

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9781300819080

Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, Volume III

Catalogue of Bindings in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum / List of Bindings in Other Collections / Overview of Rubbings Important for Identification / Diagrams / Books Referred to with Abbreviated Titles / Indexes

By: Jan Storm van Leeuwen

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Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, Volume III

By: Jan Storm van Leeuwen

Awarded with the 15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2010. This classic can be ranked among the well-known international standard works on the subject of bookbinding. The author, Dr. Jan Storm van Leeuwen, gives in this work an elaborate general historical introduction to his subject. It also contains a general introduction to each province, as they were known in the eigteenth century, and an extensive overall picture of the towns where luxury bindings were manufactured, describing the bookbinder's workshops and binderies of each town. The historical introduction is completed with a catalogue of the approximately 2000 relevant bindings in the collections of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and its sister institution the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. About 1500 other bindings that the author studied over time in other collections are also described. But the most important feature of this work is that all (nearly 10.000) stamps on these bindings are represented by a picture. Never before so many bindings (3500) have been recorded, described and discussed in such detail and with the benefit of an established model and terminology. The print edition is available as a set of four volumes (9789061943693).

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BRILL

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9004531904

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9789004531901

Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941)

Slavist, linguist, philanthropist

By: Jan Paul Hinrichs

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Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941)

Slavist, linguist, philanthropist

By: Jan Paul Hinrichs

Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijk’s relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Leipzig (1902-1903), where he followed August Leskien’s lectures in Slavic studies. Attention is also paid to the various aspects of Van Wijk’s enormous oeuvre covering the whole field of Slavic studies and of phonology, of which he was one of the pioneers. Van Wijk did not, however, follow the lines approved for the social conduct of a Leiden professor and was at one time suspected by the police of communist activities. His commitment to materially helping all he could from an Eastern Europe torn apart by the First World War and its aftermath was exceptional. His fascination with all things Russian is a background theme that played throughout his life and even at his death: son of a Dutch Reformed minister, the bachelor Van Wijk was buried in a grave surmounted by a Russian Orthodox cross beside his Russian foster son, who died young. This book is of interest to Slavists, linguists and cultural historians.

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BRILL

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940120313X

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9789401203135

Willem de Sitter

Einstein's Friend and Opponent

By: Jan Guichelaar

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Willem de Sitter

Einstein's Friend and Opponent

By: Jan Guichelaar

This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein. Authored by a physicist and skilled writer, the book gives a beautiful and accessible description of the physics debated by Einstein and de Sitter, as well as the latter's alternative cosmological model, later known as the De Sitter Universe. But this is just part of a fascinating and varied life story involving numerous contributions to astronomy, as well as many places and personalities of early 20th century physics. The book will appeal to all those interested in astronomy and physics and their history.

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Springer

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3319983377

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9783319983370

Living with Africa

By: Jan Vansina

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Living with Africa

By: Jan Vansina

In 1952, a young Belgian scholar of European medieval history traveled to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to live in a remote Kuba village. Armed with a smattering of training in African cultures and language, Jan Vansina was sent to do fieldwork for a Belgian cultural agency. As it turned out, he would help found the field of African history, with a handful of other European and African scholars. "I'm not an ethnologist, I'm a historian!" Vansina was to repeat again and again to those who assumed that people without written texts have no history. His discovery that he could analyze Kuba oral tradition using the same methods he had learned for interpreting medieval dirges was a historiographical breakthrough, and his first book, Oral Tradition as History, is considered the seminal work that gave the study of precolonial African history both the scholarly justification and the self-confidence it had been lacking. Living with Africa is a compelling memoir of Vansina's life and career on three continents, interwoven with the story of African history as a scholarly specialty. In the background of his narrative are the collapse of colonialism in Africa and the emergence of newly independent nations; in the foreground are the first conferences on African history, the founding of journals and departments, and the efforts of Africans to establish a history curriculum for the schools in their new nations.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299143244

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9780299143244

Ernest Mandel

A Rebel’s Dream Deferred

By: Jan Willem Stutje

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Ernest Mandel

A Rebel’s Dream Deferred

By: Jan Willem Stutje

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second World War as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel's faith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazi oppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentration camps. He retained his connection to his Jewish roots throughout his life, but believed that security and liberation for the Jewish people was best achieved through world revolution and universal emancipation rather than nationalism. A brilliant orator in several languages, Mandel was an indefatigable revolutionary militant and a key leader in the Fourth International, and he had an enormous impact on the thought and practice of the 1968 generation. His writings range from innovative economic and political theory to a study of the Second World War and have been published in over forty languages. His last major work, Late Capitalism, had an influence that reached from the social sciences into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje, the first writer with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewed many of the leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of new material, detailing Mandel's arrest by the Nazis and his role in Latin American guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions with both scholars-Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson-and comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book also yields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life.

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Verso Books

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1789604532

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9781789604535

The Maritain Factor

Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism

By: Rajesh Heynickx,Jan de Maeyer

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The Maritain Factor

Taking Religion Into Interwar Modernism

By: Rajesh Heynickx,Jan de Maeyer

During the 1920's and 1930's many European modernist artists and intellectuals were seeking a primordial finality in Catholicism. In order to distil the eternal from the transitory, they became fascinated by a thought frame promoted by the French philosopher Jacques Maritain: neo-Thomism, a revival of the study of the principles and methodology of the thirteenth-century theologian "Chomas Aquinas.

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Leuven University Press

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9058677141

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9789058677143

Book's by Jan Hendrik Leopold

European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

International Law in Historical Perspective

International Law in Historical Perspective

Abraham Kuyper

Abraham Kuyper

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? an Historical Investigation Embodying a Criticism of Dr. Van Der Linde's "Gutenberg"

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing? an Historical Investigation Embodying a Criticism of Dr. Van Der Linde's "Gutenberg"

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing

Gutenberg: Was He the Inventor of Printing

Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, Volume III

Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, Volume III

Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941)

Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941)

Willem de Sitter

Willem de Sitter

Living with Africa

Living with Africa

Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel

The Maritain Factor

The Maritain Factor

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