1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005962400403321

Autore

Francia

Titolo

Nouveau code de la presse ou recueil complet des lois, décrets, ordonnances et règlemens actuellement en vigueur sur cette matière; avec des notes et explications; par M. J.-A. Garnier Dubourgneuf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

A Paris : a la librairie de jurisprudence et d'administration d'Antoine Bavoux, rue Git-Le-Coeur, n. 4, 1824

Descrizione fisica

IV, [4], 176 p. ; 8°

Disciplina

345.493

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

XII G 26

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Collezione

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450694003321

Autore

Slotten Ross A

Titolo

The heretic in Darwin's court [[electronic resource] ] : the life of Alfred Russel Wallace / / Ross A. Slotten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-87189-7

9786612871894

0-231-50356-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (637 p.)

Disciplina

508/.092

B

Soggetti

Naturalists - England

Spiritualists - England

Socialists - England

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [560]-576).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; chapter 1 Origins of a Heretic; chapter 2 The Struggle for Existence; chapter 3 A Daring Plan; chapter 4 Travels on the Amazon . . .; chapter 5 . . . And the Rio Negro; chapter 6 Disaster at Sea . . . and a Civilized Interlude; chapter 7 The Malay Archipelago; chapter 8 The Mechanism Revealed; chapter 9 Beautiful Dreamer; chapter 10 A Turn Toward the Unknowable; 24-pg photo insert; chapter 11 The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall; chapter 12 Wallace and The Descent of Man; chapter 13 The Descent of Wallace

chapter 14 The War on Spiritualismchapter 15 Phoenix from the Ashes; chapter 16 To the Land of Epidemic Delusions; chapter 17 The New Nemesis; chapter 18 Thoroughly Unpopular Causes; chapter19 Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work; chapter 20 A National Treasure Celebrated; Genealogy of the Wallace Family; Notes; Biographical Index; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

During their lifetimes, Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin shared credit and fame for the independent and near-simultaneous discovery of natural selection. Together, the two men spearheaded one of the greatest intellectual revolutions in modern history, and their rivalry, usually amicable but occasionally acrimonious, forged modern evolutionary theory. Yet today, few people today know much about Wallace. The Heretic in Darwin's Court explores the controversial life and scientific contributions of Alfred Russel Wallace -- Victorian traveler, scientist, spiritualist,



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481351703321

Autore

Pachymérès George <1242-approximately 1310.>

Titolo

Georgii Pachymerij in vniuersam Aristotelis disserendi artem epitome. Ioanne Baptista Rasario interprete [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : [s.n.], 1554

Descrizione fisica

Online resource (40 c., 4°)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.