[PDF] Incontri Celesti Celestial Encounters eBook

Author : Giuseppino Marcialis
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Italian poetry
ISBN : 9780958156639

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The poet deals with the origin of life (genetic way). God has cloned himself; this makes the Poet relaxed. The plane passes above the Arafura Sea and the Indonesian Archipelago. Encounter with the Universal Conscience. The Poet wakes from the dream.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9004390502

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The Shroud at the Court analyses the ties between the Shroud and the Savoy court from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, when rituals, ceremonies, and images made the relic an essential source of legitimacy and propaganda for the Savoy dynasty.

Author : Giora Hon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 140208448X

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Many literary critics seem to think that an hypothesis about obscure and remote questions of history can be refuted by a simple demand for the production of more evidence than in fact exists. The demand is as easy to make as it is impossible to satisfy. But the true test of an hypothesis, if it cannot be shown to con?ict with known truths, is the number of facts that it correlates and explains. Francis M. Cornford [1914] 1934, 220. It was in the autumn of 1997 that the research project leading to this publication began. One of us [GH], while a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh), gave a talk entitled, “Proportions and Identity: The Aesthetic Aspect of Symmetry”. The presentation focused on a confusion s- rounding the concept of symmetry: it exhibits unity, yet it is often claimed to reveal a form of beauty, namely, harmony, which requires a variety of elements. In the audience was the co-author of this book [BRG] who responded with enthusiasm, seeking to extend the discussion of this issue to historical sources in earlier periods. A preliminary search of the literature persuaded us that the history of symmetry was rich in possibilities for new insights into the making of concepts. John Roche’s brief essay (1987), in which he sketched the broad outlines of the history of this concept, was particularly helpful, and led us to conclude that the subject was worthy of monographic treatment.

Author : Italo Calvino
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0544146697

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A posthumously published collection of Italo Calvino's autobiographical writings recounting his experiences in Italy's antifascist resistance, paying homage to his influences, tracing the evolution of his literary style, and commenting wryly on his travels in the United States.

Author : Robert Craft
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780826512857

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For the last twenty-three years of Igor Stravinsky's incredibly full life, the noted musician, conductor, and writer Robert Craft was his closest colleague and friend, a trusted member of the Stravinsky household, and an important participant in virtually all of the composer's worldwide activities. Throughout these years, Craft kept a detailed diary, impressive in its powers of observation and characterization. This diary forms the basis for Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship, now released in this substantially revised and enlarged edition.

Author : Craig Dworkin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 2011-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810127113

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Charles Bernstein has described conceptual "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp through major avant-garde groups of the past century, including Dada, Oulipo, Fluxus, and language poetry, to name just a few. The works of more than a hundred writers from Aasprong to Zykov demonstrate a remarkable variety of new ways of thinking about the nature of texts, information, and art, using found, appropriated, and randomly generated texts to explore the possibilities of non-expressive language. --Book Jacket.

Author : Danilo Capecchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2017-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319583107

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This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach. It is argued that modern European science originated from Hellenistic mathematics not so much because of rediscovery of the latter but rather because its “applied” components, namely mechanics, optics, harmonics, and astronomy, and their methodologies continued to be transmitted throughout the Middle Ages without serious interruption. Furthermore, it is proposed that these “applied” components played a role in their entirety; thus, for example, “new” mechanics derived not only from “old” mechanics but also from harmonics, optics, and astronomy. Unlike other texts on the subject, the role of mathematicians is stressed over that of philosophers of nature and the focus is particularly on epistemological aspects. In exploring Galilean and post-Galilean epistemology, attention is paid to the contributions of Galileo’s disciples and also the impact of his enemies. The book will appeal to both historians of science and scientists.