[PDF] Encyclopaedia Britannica Or A Dictionary Of Arts Sciences And Miscellaneous Literature Constructed On A Plan By Which The Different Sciences And Arts Are Digested Into The Form Of Distinct Treatises Or Systems Comprehending The History Theory And Practice Of Each According To The Latest Discoveries And Improvements Vol 1 18 eBook

Author : Colin Macfarquhar
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 12,60 MB
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781397250728

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Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Britannica, or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Vol. 8 of 18: Constructed on a Plan, by Which the Different Sciences and Arts Are Digested Into the Form of Distinct Treatises or Systems, Comprehending the History, Theory, and Practice, of Each, According to the Latest Discoveries and Improvements Godmanchester, a town oi Huntingdon (hire, 16 miles From Cambridge, and' 57 from London. It has a bridge on; the Q'ufé, oppofite to Huntingdon, was formerly a Roman city', by the name of Din-oli ponte, where many R'oman 'coins have been often dug up and according to old Writers, in the time of the Saxons it Was the fee of a biihop, and had a cattle built by one Gorman a Danifh king, from which the town was called' Gormanchei'eer. It is reckoned one of the largeit villages in England, and is feated in a fertile foil, abounding with corn. It is faid that no town in England kept more ploughs at work than this has done. The inhabitants boail they formerly received our kings as they made a progrefs this way, with nine fcore ploughs at a time, finely adorned With their trappings, 8cc. James I. Made it a corporation by the name of. Two bailiffs, 1za ailillzants, and the commonalty of the borough of Godmanchefier. Here is a fchool, called the Free Grammar School of queen Elizabeth. 011 the weft fide of the town is a noble though aiicient feat of the Earl of Sandwich. N'ear this place, in; the Lon-1 don road between Huntingdon and Caxton, is a tree well known to travellers by the name of Beggar' s. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 113749767X

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The essays in this volume seek to examine the uses to which concepts of genius have been put in different cultures and times. Collectively, they are designed to make two new statements. First, seen in historical and comparative perspective, genius is not a natural fact and universal human constant that has been only recently identified by modern science, but instead a categorical mode of assessing human ability and merit. Second, as a concept with specific definitions and resonances, genius has performed specific cultural work within each of the societies in which it had a historical presence.

Author : Jeff Loveland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1108481094

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Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.