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  • The Unmaking of the Medieval Christian Cosmos, 1500–1760

    From Solid Heavens to Boundless Æther

    by W.G.L. Randles ...
    From the early Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, theologians exerted considerable effort to achieve a synthesis bringing together Greek cosmology and the Creation story in Genesis. In the construction of the medieval Empyrean, the dwelling place of the Blessed, Aristotle’s philosophy proved of critical importance. From the Renaissance on, largely in revolt against Aristotle, humanist ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance

    The Impact of the Great Discoveries

    by W.G.L. Randles ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randles looks at the advances in Portuguese navigation and cartography that helped sailors overcome the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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  • Sojourners in a Strange Land

    Jesuits & Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China

    by Florence C. Hsia ...
    Though Jesuits assumed a variety of roles as missionaries in late imperial China, their most memorable guise was that of scientific expert, whose maps, clocks, astrolabes, and armillaries reportedly astonished the Chinese. But the icon of the missionary-scientist is itself a complex myth. Masterfully correcting the standard story of China Jesuits as simple conduits for Western science, Florence C. ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Alchemy

    by Lawrence M. Principe ...
    Series series Synthesis
    "This elegant, readable book…covers the history of alchemy from its shadowy origins in Hellenistic Egypt to its scholarly recovery in the 20th century" (Anthony Grafton, Science).In The Secrets of Alchemy, science historian and practicing chemist Lawrence M. Principe dispels commonly held misconceptions about alchemy and sheds light on what it was, how it began, and how it influenced a range of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Nostradamus: the Truth Be Told

    A Complete History of Europe

    by Clarence Gregory ...
    This is the definitive work on Nostradamus and how his predictions relate to known historical fact. Within these pages the secret order of the quatrains is revealed as well as the codes the prophet used to describe a future that he had no known way to predict.The writings of Nostradamus were far more exact and telling than we have, up till now, imagined. This work not only illustrate this but will ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Galileo's Telescope

    A European Story

    by Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice ...
    Translated by Catherine Bolton ...
    An innovative exploration of the development of a revolutionary optical device and how it changed the world.Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. Galileo's Telescope tells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific ... Read more

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  • Galileo

    by John L. Heilbron ...
    Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2

    by William Hickling Prescott ...
    pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, OF THE ROYAL ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

    by Frances A. Yates ...
    First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964. ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Athanasius Kircher

    The Last Man Who Knew Everything

    Edited by Paula Findlen ...
    First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science

    by David C. Lindberg, Michael H. Shank ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Science
    This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD