1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455280303321

Autore

Hyder David Jalal <1964->

Titolo

The determinate world [[electronic resource] ] : Kant and Helmholtz on the physical meaning of geometry / / by David Hyder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2009

ISBN

1-282-71672-7

9786612716720

3-11-021720-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie, , 0344-8142 ; ; Bd. 69

Classificazione

CF 5017

Disciplina

516

516.001

Soggetti

Geometry - Philosophy

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Empirical Determination of Physical Concepts in Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science -- 3. Helmholtz on the Comprehension of Nature -- 4. Colour-theory and Manifolds -- 5. The Road to Empirical Geometry -- 6. Helmholtz on Geometry, 1868 - 1878 -- 7. Conclusion -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a new interpretation of Hermann von Helmholtz's work on the epistemology of geometry. A detailed analysis of the philosophical arguments of Helmholtz's Erhaltung der Kraft shows that he took physical theories to be constrained by a regulative ideal. They must render nature "completely comprehensible", which implies that all physical magnitudes must be relations among empirically given phenomena. This conviction eventually forced Helmholtz to explain how geometry itself could be so construed. Hyder shows how Helmholtz answered this question by drawing on the theory of magnitudes developed in his research on the colour-space. He argues against the dominant interpretation of Helmholtz's work by suggesting that for the latter, it is less the inductive character of geometry that makes it empirical, and rather the regulative requirement that the



system of natural science be empirically closed.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454567903321

Titolo

John Skelton [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Anthony S.G. Edwards

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Boston, : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981

ISBN

1-280-32500-3

0-203-19687-2

0-203-28657-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

The critical heritage series

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsA. S. G <1942-> (Anthony Stockwell Garfield)

Disciplina

821/.2

Soggetti

English literature

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 bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Note on the text -- William Caxton on Skelton, c. 1490 -- Erasmus on Skelton, 'that incomparable light and ornament of British letters', c. 1499 -- Alexander Barclay on 'Philip Sparrow', 1509 -- 'The great chronicle of London' on Skelton and his contemporaries, c. 1510 -- Henry Bradshaw on Skelton and other superior poets, c. 1513 -- William Lily on Skelton : 'neither learned, nor a poet', c. 1519 -- Robert Whittinton in praise of Skelton, the 'learned poet', 1519 -- John Bale on the life of Skelton, 1557 -- William Bullein on Skelton's satires on Wolsey, 1564 -- Thomas Churchyard in praise of Skelton, 1568 -- John Grange on Skelton's 'ragged ryme', 1577 -- William Webbe on Skelton : 'a pleasant conceyted fellowe', 1586 -- George Puttenham on Skelton's metre, 1589 -- Gabriel Harvey on Skelton, the 'madbrayned knave', c. 1573-80, 1592 -- Arthur Dent on Skelton's immoral works, c. 1590 -- Michael Drayton in praise of Skelton, c. 1600, 1606, 1619 -- 'Pimlyco, or Runne Red-Cappe' in praise of 'Elynor Rumming', 1609 -- Nicholas Breton on Skelton's 'ruffling rimes', 1612 -- Humphrey King on Skelton and other 'merry men', 1613 -- William Browne on Skelton, 1614 -- Henry Peacham on Skelton's unmerited reputation, 1622 -- 'A banquet



of jests' on the neglect of Skelton, 1639 -- James Howell on the neglect of Skelton, 1655 -- Thomas Fuller's biography of Skelton, 1662 -- Edward Phillips on Skelton's current obscurity, 1675 -- An eighteenth-century critic in praise of 'Elynor Rummyng', 1718 -- Alexander Pope on 'beastly Skelton', 1737 -- Elizabeth Cooper in praise of Skelton, 1737 -- Samuel Johnson on Skelton, 1755 -- Thomas Wharton on Skelton, 1778 -- Philip Neve on Skelton : 'a rude and scurrilous rhymer', 1789 -- Robert Southey on Skelton's genius, 1814 -- William Gifford in praise of Skelton, 1816 -- Ezekiel Sanford on Skelton's life and works, 1819 -- The 'Retrospective review' in praise of Skelton, 1822 -- William Wordsworth on Skelton : 'a demon in point of genius', 1823, 1833 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 'Philip Sparrow', 1827, 1836 -- Henry Hallam on Skelton : 'certainly not a poet', 1837 -- Isaac D'Isreali on Skelton's genius, 1840 -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning in praise of Skelton, 1842 -- Agnes Strickland on Skelton : 'this ribald and ill-living wretch', 1842 -- The 'Quarterly review' on Dyce's edition of Skelton, 1844 -- Hippolyte Taine on Skelton the 'clown', 1863 -- 'Dublin University magazine' on Skelton, 1866 -- James Russell Lowell on Skelton and 'Philip Sparrow', 1875, 1889 -- John Churton Collins on Skelton, 1880 -- Richard Hughes on Skelton, 1924 -- Edmund Blunden on Skelton's 400th anniversary, 1929 -- Humbert Wolfe on Skelton's innovation, 1929 -- Robert Graves on Henderson's edition of Skelton, 1931 -- W.H. Auden on Skelton 'the entertainer', 1935 -- G.S. Fraser on Skelton, 1936 -- E.M. Forster on Skelton, 1950 -- C.S. Lewis on Skelton, 'the really gifted amateur', 1954.

Sommario/riassunto

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457573003321

Autore

Van Emden Helmut Fritz

Titolo

Pest and vector control / / H.F. van Emden and M.W. Service [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14439-6

1-280-95607-0

9786610956074

0-511-35158-5

0-511-16590-0

0-511-16395-9

0-511-56158-X

0-511-61633-3

0-511-16475-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

632/.7

Soggetti

Pests - Control

Pests - Biological control

Vector control

Pesticides - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Man and insects; 2 The causes of pest and vectored disease outbreaks; 3 Insecticides and their formulation; 4 Application of insecticides; 5 Problems with insecticides; 6 Environmental/cultural control; 7 Biological control; 8 Insect pathogens; 9 Genetic control; 10 Pheromones; 11 Plant and host resistance; 12 Other control methods and related topics; 13 Pest and vector management; Appendix of names of some chemicals and microbials used as pesticides; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

As ravagers of crops and carriers of diseases affecting plants, humans and animals, insects present a challenge to a growing human population. In Pest and Vector Control, first published in 2004,



Professors van Emden and Service describe the available options for meeting this challenge, discussing their relative advantages, disadvantages and future potential. Methods such as chemical and biological control, host tolerance and resistance are discussed integrating (often for the first time) information and experience from the agricultural and medical/veterinary fields. Chemical control is seen as a major component of insect control, both now and in the future, but this is balanced with an extensive account of associated problems, especially the development of pesticide-tolerant populations.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790880303321

Autore

Leather John

Titolo

The gaff rig handbook : history, design, techniques, developments / / John Leather ; with drawings by the author

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Brooklin, Maine : , : Adlard Coles Nautical, , [2012, 2002]

©2012

ISBN

1-4081-2161-1

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

623.8/62

Soggetti

Gaff riggers

Sailboats

Sailing ships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""1 MASTS AND SPARS""; ""2 STANDING RIGGING""; ""3 RUNNING RIGGING""; ""4 GAFF SAILS AND BASIC SAILMAKING ""; ""5 GAFF TOPSAILS""; ""6 THE BOOMLESS GAFF SAIL""; ""7 THE CATBOAT""; ""8 THE SLOOP""; ""9 THE CUTTER""; ""10 CUTTER YACHTS""; ""11 THE ESSEX SMACKS""; ""12 THE SOLENT AND POOLE FISHING BOATS ""; ""13 PILOT CUTTERS AND SCHOONERS""; ""14 THE YAWL""; ""15 THE KETCH""; ""16 THE SCHOONER""; ""17 THE FISHING SCHOONERS OF NEW ENGLAND AND NOVA SCOTIA""; ""18 THE FISHING BOATS OF NORTH WEST ENGLAND""



""19 THE LITTLE SHIPS OF DENMARK""""20 ON THE WEST COAST OF FRANCE""; ""EPILOGUE""; ""INDEX""; ""A ""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""