Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. — 200 p. — (How Things Worked). — ISBN: 1421413574. Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that...
Springer, 2016. — 304 p. — (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 43). — ISBN: 978-3-319-46987-4, 978-3-319-46989-8. This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L’Homme by René Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on questions such as the circulation of the blood,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 203 p. — 9780521194327. Background to archaeological theories and methods Text as material culture Images Small finds Spaces of healing Scientific archaeology: skeletal and medical remains
PhD Thesis. — Newcastle University — 2000. — xiii+397 pp. + 118 figures.
The study of Roman frontiers tends to concentrate on the historical development and military tactics, in construction and actions, of the Roman army. Little attention has been given to the daily life of the soldiers; and those studies that address daily organisation tend to rely upon interpretations that...
University of Toronto Press, 2016. — 280 p., 17 Fig. — (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series, Book 24). — ISBN: 978-1442630246. For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic “Enlightenment project.” Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a...
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019. — 106 p. — ISBN 978-1-5275-3087-4. This work sheds light on the mostly obscure topic of medicine and its use in the Roman military. It explores the workings of the ancient healthcare system, the methods of care by physicians, and the treatments for different ailments and injuries. The contributions utilise historical...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2021. — 1058 p. — ISBN 978-1-78327-516-8, ISBN 978-1-78744-931-2. The Black Death was a disaster of huge magnitude, shaking medieval Europe and beyond to its economic and social core. Building upon his acclaimed study of 2004, Ole Benedictow here draws upon new scholarship and research to present a comprehensive, definitive account of the Black Death...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 382 p. — ISBN: 9780691606569, ISBN: 9780691654386. The Theater of Nature is histoire totale of the last work of the political philosopher Jean Bodin, his Universae naturae theatrum (1596). Through Bodin's work, Ann Blair explores the fascinating and previously little known world of late Renaissance natural philosophy. A study of the text, of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 216 p. — ISBN: 0199287422. List of Illustrations List of Maps, Table, and Figure List of Abbreviations Note The Naval Surgeon During the French Wars Origins and Early Career The Mediterranean and Trafalgar Beatty and Nelson’s Apotheosis Later Career Afterword Select Bibliography
Pennsylvania state University Press, 2016. — 264 p. — 0271070986, 978-0271070988. In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. — 320 p. — (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). — ISBN: 9781421421230. Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine—the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins...
London: Duckworth. — 24565 p. — 0715624393, 9780715624395. A.C. Crombie is well known as one of the world’s leading historians of science. A retired Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, he has been responsible for the introduction of the history of science and medicine into normal teaching and research in the University. He has held distinguished academic appointments, among...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 300 p. — ISBN: 1107169437. This book sheds new light on the problematic relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman culture. Various fields of knowledge are discussed, including agriculture, architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine, and pharmacology. The main focus is on the interaction...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 352 p. — ISBN: 9780521789738
This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the preeminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes's philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian...
Garber, Daniel. Superheroes in the History of Philosophy: Spinoza, Super-Rationalist // Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 53, Number 3, July 2015, стр. 507-521, doi 10.1353/hph.2015.0045 Everyone loves superheroes. superheroes , of course, have incredible powers; they can leap tall buildings in a single bound, excel in combat, and have X-ray vision. But, in addition,...
Jewish Publication Society, 2015. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0827612516. The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture was at its height in Muslim Spain to the horrors of the Inquisition and the Expulsion. Twenty percent of Jews today are...
Москва: Знание, 1958. — 42 с. В брошюре раскрывается роль научного предположения, фантазии и мечты в познании законов природы и общества. Автор показывает особенности гипотезы как формы развития научного знания, роль эксперимента и практики вообще в обосновании и развитии гипотез, закономерности перехода от гипотезы к научной теории.
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1989. — 289 p. — ISBN: 978-1-874774-42-6. This survey history of Jewish life and culture in early modern Europe is the first to focus on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a radically new phase in Jewish history. The book lays particular emphasis on the reversal of trends in western and central Europe in the late sixteenth century,...
Статья. — CR: The New Centennial Review. — 2017. — Vol. 17, № 2, Fall. — P. 63-76. — DOI 10.14321/crnewcentrevi.17.2.0063. If Spinoza philosophizes in the first person, as the prologue of On the Improvement of Understanding attests, his preference for the plural over the singular must be noted. To describe the human experience in its cognitive and affective form, he prefers to use...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — xiv, 529 p. — ISBN: 9780195171648. From the 17th century until the Holocaust, Germany's Jews lurched between progress and setback, between fortune and terrible misfortune. German society shunned Jews in the eighteenth century and opened unevenly to them in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, only to turn murderous in the Nazi era. This...
Brill, 2017. — XXX, 370 p. — (Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, 58). — 9789004343153. In The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curacao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life...
Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1989. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-1-904113-14-0, 1904113141. Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine and theology in Spain, and having pursued a distinguished medical career, he was arrested by the Spanish...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 474 p. — 1107060060, 978-1107060067. How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on...
Lexington Books, 2012. — 230 p. — ISBN: 0739172166. In today’s developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts and ideas that have enabled...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. — 268 p. Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultural perspective, rather than a narrowly scientific one. Drawing on medical...
Metropolitan Books, 2014. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0805079106, ISBN: 978-0805079104. In Dark Mirror, Sara Lipton offers a fascinating examination of the emergence of anti-Semitic iconography in the Middle Ages. The straggly beard, the hooked nose, the bag of coins, and gaudy apparel―the religious artists of medieval Christendom had no shortage of virulent symbols for identifying Jews....
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. — 472 p. — ISBN: 0822944650, 978-0822944652. The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris—a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin—highlighted...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 446 p. — ISBN: 9781782972358. There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains, grave-goods comprising medical and/or surgical equipment and visual representations in tombs and other monuments thorough to epigraphic and literary sources. The 42 papers...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 140 p. — (Images of War). — 1473862116, 978-1473862111. Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals...
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 140 p. — (Images of War). — 1473862116, 978-1473862111. Animals in the Great War throws a spot light on the experience of creatures great and small during the First World War, vividly telling their stories through the incredible archival images of the Mary Evans Picture Library. The enduring public interest in Michael Morpurgos tale of the war horse reveals...
Jerusalem, St. Petersburg: Nauka, 1993. — 357 p. — ISBN 5020281794. The present volume opens a new series devoted to various aspects of intercourse between Jewish and Slavic cultures. The series is designed as a collective international enterprise open for presentation of various points of view. The idea of such a publication was put forward at the international symposium...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 96 p. — (Osprey Essential Histories, 67). — ISBN: 978-1846030369. Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel,...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 64 p. — ISBN: 9781841767031. Hisarlik is a small place, a sandy stone strewn hillock cut up into gullies and hummocks. Yet its historical significance is immense, for this is the site of Troy - the legendary city whose story sprawls across cultures, time and geography. The tale of the siege of Troy is the greatest secular story ever told, and has...
Osprey Publishing, 2004. — 64 p. — ISBN: 9781841767628. Mycenaean society was constantly geared for battle and invasion. Their ‘cities' were heavy fortresses with unimaginably thick perimeter walls. Legendary sites such as Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Krisa, the Athenian Acropolis and Gla are all representative of their fortified citadels that dominated the Greek countryside for...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 64 p. — ISBN: 1841768324. When the Romans first fought against Caledonii during the reign of Agricola (AD 77-84), Agricola established a frontier along the Gask Ridge. He also consolidated the Forth-Clyde isthmus, the location at which the Romans would later build the Antonine Wall from AD 138 to 143. The following 100 years saw a cycle of advance...
Osprey Publishing, 2006. — 65 p. — ISBN: 9781841768847. The development of the city-state in the Classical period of Greek history ensured a shift in the nature of fortifications in the region. No longer were fortresses designed to defend a ruler and his entourage, rather the whole of the citizen body had to be protected against any outside threats. The enceintes of these Greek...
Osprey Publishing, 1981. — 48 p. — (Men-at-Arms 109). — ISBN: 9780850453843. This text by Terence Wise explores some of the fascinating peoples who comprised the ancient armies of the Middle East: the Sumerians, who were the first to introduce the use of bronze into warfare, and were centuries ahead of the Egyptians in the use of the wheel – The Akkadians, whose citizen army...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 48 pp. — ISBN: 9781841764870. The armour and weapons of Rome's legionaries and auxiliaries have been the subject of intense research and speculation, and much has been published - but almost nothing on the actual clothing of Imperial soldiers. In this first part of a rigorous study of the literary, sculptural, pictorial and archaeological evidence, a...
Osprey Publishing, 2003. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841765594. The armour and weapons of the Roman army have long been the subject of intense research and speculation. While much has been published on their arms and armour, however, the actual clothing of Imperial soldiers has largely been overlooked. In this second part of a rigorous study of the literary, sculptural, pictorial and...
Osprey Publishing, 2005. — 48 p. — ISBN: 9781841768434. This book is the concluding part of a rigorous study of theliterary, sculptural, pictorial and archaeological evidence for Roman military clothing, covering the last days of the Western Empire, and the much longer record of the Eastern, in the 5th to 7th centuries. The evidence from this enormously colourful period - when...
Osprey Publishing, 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN: 9781849081955. More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decorated artefacts of the entombed warriors, whose bodies still lay in their graves, confirmed that Homer's epic The Iliad was based upon true events, and that the Achaeans described...
Osprey Publishing, 2016. — 64 p. — ISBN: 9781780968582. The mainland and islands of Greece were extensively settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. It is form this point on that it is possible to discern a distinct Cycladic or Aegean civilisation, developing at roughly the same time as the...
М.: Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, 2017. — 351, [1] с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-7598-1540-2. Коллективная научная монография «Polystoriа: Зодчие, конунги, понтифики в средневековой Европе» появилась в результате исследований, проводившихся Лабораторией медиевистических исследований НИУ ВШЭ по проблемам средневековой истории Запада и Востока. В книге рассматривается круг...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 1421421771, 978-1421421773. — 289 p. In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the...
University of South Carolina Press, 2017. — 208 p. — (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication). — ISBN: 1611177685. How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called “rhetoric”? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato...
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 336 p. — 0253023742, 9780253023742. Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how to conceive of the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and the civic life of a modern state. Elias Sacks explores...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 336 p. — 1107674891, 9781107674899. The triumph of Zionism has clouded recollection of competing forms of Jewish nationalism vying for power a century ago. This study explores alternative ways to construct the modern Jewish nation. Jewish nationalism emerges from this book as a Diaspora phenomenon much broader than the Zionist movement. Like its...
Статья. — History of Philosophy Quarterly. — 2017. — Vol. 34, № 3. — P. 213-230. As readers of the history of philosophy, we are aware that a philosopher's views can change over the course of their lifetime. As readers of Spinoza, we tend to be less alive to this truism. Of course, commentators acknowledge that the Ethics contains important departures from doctrines in the earlier...
Статья. — Military History. — Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2016. Military medicine can be seen as being as old as armed conflict itself in higher civilizations—such as those of the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians (from c. 4000 BCE). This article is an examination of the manifold efforts made to bolster military operations through actively “recycling” indispensable...
Brill, 2016. — XX+541 p. — 9789004311114. — (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 61). Russia is an enigmatic, mysterious country, situated between East and West not only spatially, but also mentally. Or so it is traditionally perceived in Western Europe and the Anglophone world at large. One of the distinctive features of Russian culture is its irrationalism, which revealed...