1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698420203321

Titolo

Stability through scandal [[electronic resource] ] : a review of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer : hearing before the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, March 31, 2009

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. G.P.O., , 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 73 pages) : illustrations

Collana

S. hrg. ; ; 111-350

Soggetti

Finance, Public - Washington (D.C.)

Washington (D.C.) Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 4, 2010).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798147403321

Autore

Chen-Morris Raz

Titolo

Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility / / Raz Chen-Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-271-07733-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 247 pages :) : illustrations ;

Disciplina

535/.32

Soggetti

Geometrical optics - History

Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century

Science, Renaissance

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

The new optical narrative : light, camera obscura, and the astronomer's wings -- "Seeing with my own eyes" : introducing the new foundations of scientific knowledge -- The content of Kepler's visual language : abstraction, representation, and recognition -- "Non tanquam pictor, sed tanquam mathematicus" : Kepler's pictures and the art of painting -- Reading the book of nature : allegories, emblems, and geometrical diagrams -- Nothing and the ends of Renaissance science.

Sommario/riassunto

"Focusing on the astronomer Johannes Kepler's 1604 treatise on optics, explores Kepler's radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how he posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge in the early modern period"--Provided by publisher.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00398805

Autore

AGRELL, Sigurd

Titolo

Baltoslavischen Lautgeschichte / von Sigurd Agrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lund, : Gleerup ; Leipzig, : Otto Harrassowitz, [1921]

Descrizione fisica

49 p. ; 25 cm.

Disciplina

491.8

491.9

Soggetti

LINGUISTICA BALTO-SLAVA - FONETICA E FONOLOGIA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia