China in the early bronze age [[electronic resource] ] : Shang civilization / / Robert L. Thorp

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463253203321
• Autore: Thorp Robert L. <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8122-0361-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: Encounters with Asia
• Disciplina: 931/.02
• Soggetti: Feudalism - China; Electronic books.; China History Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Documentation -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Dawn of the Bronze Age: The Erlitou Culture (C. 1900-1500 B.C.E.) -- 2. Foundations of the Bronze Age: The Erligang Culture (C. 1600-1300 B.C.E.) -- 3. The Shang Kings at Anyang (C. 1300-1 046 B.C.E.) -- 4. Shang Cult: Divination and Sacrifice -- 5. The Late Shang World (C. 1300-1 050 B.C.E.) -- Afterword: The Invention of Chinese Civilization -- Suggested Reading -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the great breakthroughs in Chinese studies in the early twentieth century was the archaeological identification of the earliest, fully historical dynasty of kings, the Shang (ca. 1300-1050 B.C.E.). The last fifty years have seen major advances in all areas of Chinese archaeology, but recent studies of the Shang, their ancestors, and their contemporaries have been especially rich. Since the last English-language overview of Shang civilization appeared in 1980, the pace of discovery has quickened. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization is the first work in twenty-five years to synthesize current knowledge of the Shang for everyone interested in the origins of Chinese civilization. China in the Early Bronze Age traces the development of early Bronze Age cultures in North and Northwestern China from about 2000 B.C.E., including the Erlitou culture (often ; identified with the Xia) and the Erligang culture. Robert L. Thorp introduces major sites, their architectural remains, burials, and material culture, with special attention to jades and bronze. He reviews the many discoveries near Anyang, site of two capitals of the Shang kings. In addition to the topography of these sites, Thorp discusses elite crafts and devotes a chapter to the Shang cult, its divination practices, and its rituals. The volume concludes with a survey of the late Shang world, cultures contemporary with Anyang during the late second millennium B.C.E. Fully documented with references to Chinese archaeological sources and illustrated with more than one hundred line drawings, China in the Early Bronze Age also includes informative sidebars on related topics and suggested readings. Students of the history and archaeology of early civilizations will find China in the Early Bronze Age the most up-to-date and wide-ranging introduction to its topic now in print. Scholars in Chinese studies will use this work as a handbook and research guide. This volume makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in the formative stages of Chinese culture.

Klimt / presentazione di Johannes Dobai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910622598003321
• Autore: Klimt, Gustav
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano, : Rizzoli-Skira; Corriere della sera, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 189 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
• Collana: I classici dell'arte. Il Novecento
• Locazione: FARBC
• Collocazione: FONDO ROSSI 994
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Varying Gravity : Dirac’s Legacy in Cosmology and Geophysics / / by Helge Kragh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910254078003321
• Autore: Kragh Helge
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016
• ISBN: 3-319-24379-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2016.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Collana: Science Networks. Historical Studies, , 1421-6329 ; ; 54
• Disciplina: 523.1
• Soggetti: Mathematics; History; Cosmology; Geophysics; History of Mathematical Sciences; Geophysics and Environmental Physics
• 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: Preface -- 1.Introductory Issues -- 2.Varying Gravity -- 3.The Expanding Earth -- 4.After Plate Tectonics -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The main focus of this book is on the interconnection of two unorthodox scientific ideas, the varying-gravity hypothesis and the expanding-earth hypothesis. As such, it provides a fascinating insight into a nearly forgotten chapter in both the history of cosmology and the history of the earth sciences. The hypothesis that the force of gravity decreases over cosmic time was first proposed by Paul Dirac in 1937. In this book the author examines in detail the historical development of Dirac’s hypothesis and its consequences for the structure and history of the earth, the most important of which was that the earth must have been smaller in the past.