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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782472403321

Titolo

History of universities . Volume XXIII/1 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mordechai Feingold

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-383-04483-X

1-281-82572-7

9786611825720

0-19-156199-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Collana

History of universities ; ; 23

Altri autori (Persone)

FeingoldMordechai

Disciplina

378

378.009

378/.009

Soggetti

Universities and colleges - History

Education, Higher - History

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Articles; Academic Condemnation and the Decline of Theology at Oxford; Christ Church Oxford, the Ancients-Moderns Controversy, and the Promotion of Newton in Post-Revolutionary England; The Relationships Between Astronomical Observatories and Universities in nineteenth-century France; A Magnificent Fungus on the Political Tree: The Growth of University Representation in the United Kingdom, 1832-1950; Review Essay; Sitting Down at a 'Thyestean Banquet of Clap-trap'; Reviews; Leonardi Garzoni, Trattati della calamita, ed. Monica Ugaglia

Emanuela Scribano, Angeli e beati. Modelli di conoscenza da Tommaso a SpinozaL. E. Rodríguez-San Pedro Bezares (ed.), Historia de la Universidad de Salamanca. Saberes y confluencias, (Historia de la Universidad de Salamanca, Vol. III) (Simona Langella); William Whyte, Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924 (Sheldon Rothblatt); Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Volume XXIII/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical



information, which makes this publication an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. It offers a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material. - ;Volume XXII/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contribu