1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455550203321

Autore

Pope Alexander

Titolo

Alexander Pope : Selected Poetry and Prose / / Alexander Pope and Robin Sowerby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2002]

©1988

ISBN

1-134-98689-0

1-134-98690-4

1-280-32539-9

0-203-20029-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Routledge English texts

Disciplina

821/.5

828.509

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century

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: p. 249-251.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Ode on Solitude; Adriani morientis ad Animam; To Henry Cromwell, 19 October 1709 [with Argus]; To Henry Cromwell, 25 November 1710 [on versification]; An Essay on Criticism; Epistle to Miss Blount with the Works of Voiture; from Windsor Forest; [On sickness] (essay from The Guardian); The Rape of the Lock; Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the Town, after the Coronation; Eloisa to Abelard; Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; from the Preface to the Works of Shakespeare; To Mrs M.B. on her Birthday

Epitaph. On Mrs Corbett, Who died of a Cancer in her BreastEpitaph. On Mr Gay. In Westminster Abbey, 1732; Epistle to a lady. Of the Characters of Women; Epistle to Burlington; To Dr Arbuthnot, 26 July 1734 [On his satire]; An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot; The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated: To Mr Fortescue; The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated: To L.Bolingbroke; The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace: To Venus; Critical commentary; Select bibliography; Notes



Sommario/riassunto

Alexander Pope's technical polish and intellectual poise appeal to the subtlest audience. This selection includes The Rape of the Lock, Eloisa to Abelard, and extracts from The Dunciad and the translation of Homer.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464778403321

Titolo

The space of mathematics : philosophical, epistemological, and historical explorations / / edited by Javier Echeverria, Andoni Ibarra, Thomas Mormann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1992

ISBN

3-11-087029-0

Edizione

[Reprint 2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition

Classificazione

CC 2600

Altri autori (Persone)

EcheverríaJavier

IbarraAndoni

MormannThomas <1951->

Disciplina

510

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Mathematics - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. papers presented at a symposium on structures in mathematical theories, held in Sept. 1990 in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory afterthoughts -- The Protean Character of Mathematics -- Categories of Space and of Quantity -- Structural Analogies Between Mathematical and Empirical Theories -- Reduction and Explanation: Science vs. Mathematics -- Reality, Truth, and Confirmation in Mathematics – Reflections on the Quasi-Empiricist Programme -- Tacit Knowledge in Mathematical Theory -- Structure-Similarity as a Cornerstone of the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Applying Mathematics and the Indispensability Argument -- Mathematical Structures and Physical Necessity -- The Role of Mathematics in Physical Science -- The Status of Set-theoretic Axioms in Empirical Theories -- Suppes Predicates for



Classical Physics -- Mathematics in Philosophy -- Are There Revolutions in Mathematics? -- Observations, Problems and Conjectures in Number Theory – The History of the Prime Number Theorem -- Historical Aspects of the Foundations of Error Theory -- A Structuralist View of Lagrange’s Algebraic Analysis and the German Combinatorial School -- Constructivism and Objects of Mathematical Theory -- Turing’s “Oracle”: From Absolute to Relative Computability – and Back -- Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science -- Theories and the Flow of Information -- Structuralism and Scientific Discovery -- Towards a Typology of Intertheoretical Relations -- Index of Names -- 423-424