1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390665403316

Autore

Wingate Edmund <1596-1656.>

Titolo

Mr Wingate's arithmetick [[electronic resource] ] : containing a plain and familiar method for attaining the knowledge and practice of common arithmetick. The ninth edition, very much enlarged. First composed by Edmund Wingate late of Grays-Inn, Esquire. Afterwards, upon Mr. Wingate's request, enlarged in his life-time: also since his decease carefully revised, and much improved, as will appear by the preface, and table of contents, by John Kersey, teacher of the mathematicks, at the sign of the Globe in Shandois-street in Covent-Garden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for John Williams, and are to be sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1694

Descrizione fisica

[12], 180, 201-544 p. : ill., tables

Soggetti

Arithmetic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Preface signed by John Kersey, who also wrote the "Appendix", pp. [303]-544.

Divisional title on T4r reads in part, "An appendix, containing choice knowledge in arithmetick, both practical and theoretical".

Includes contents leaves for both parts of the work.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Illustrated with diagrams and practical tables of measurement.

Reproduction of original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus). Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0167



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781211203321

Autore

Wali Kameshwar C

Titolo

A Scientific Autobiography [[electronic resource] ] : S Chandrasekhar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2011

ISBN

1-283-14837-4

9786613148377

981-4299-59-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

523.0109

Soggetti

Astrophysicists -- United States -- Biography

Astrophysicists -- United States -- Correspondence

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995 -- Correspondence

Chandrasekhar, S. (Subrahmanyan), 1910-1995

Astrophysicists - United States

Astronomy & Astrophysics

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Astronomy - General

Astrophysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Dedication; Foreword by Kameshwar C. Wali; Preface by S. Chandrasekhar; Contents; I. A History of My Papers on "Radiative Equilibrium" (1943-1948); II. Turbulence;  Hydromagnetism (1948-1960); III. The Development of the Virial Method and Ellipsoidal Figures of Equilibrium (1960-1970); IV. General Relativity (1962-1969); V. The Fallow Period (1970-1974); VI. General Relativity;  Ryerson Lecture;  Separation of Dirac Equation (January 1975-August 1977); VII. General Relativity;  Kerr-Newman Perturbations (August 1977-December 1978); VIII. 1979 - A Year of Failures and of Obligations

IX. 1980, 1981: The Mathematical Theory of Black HolesX. POSTSCRIPT: 1982, a Year that Passed; XI. The Beginning of the End (1983-1985); XII. Continued Efforts I (September 1985-May 1987); XIII. Continued Efforts II (May 1987-September 1989); XIV. Continued Efforts III



(September 1989-October 1991); XV. Continued Efforts IV (November 1991-December 1994); Notes & Comments by Kameshwar C. Wali

Sommario/riassunto

S. Chandrasekhar, popularly known as Chandra, was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The year 2010 marks the birth centenary of Chandra. His unique style of research, inward bound, seeking a personal perspective to master a particular field, and then pass on to another was so unique that it will draw considerable interest and attention among scholars. As Chandra elucidates in the preface, the various installments describe in detail the evolution of my scientific work during the past forty years and records each investigation, describing the doubts and the successes, the trials

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953927903321

Autore

Chandra Muzaffar <1947, >

Titolo

Rights, religion and reform : enhancing human dignity through spiritual and moral transformation / / Chandra Muzaffar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-317-97351-8

0-7007-1648-3

1-315-87071-1

1-317-97352-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

297.2/72

297.272

Soggetti

Islam and humanism

Human rights - Religious aspects - Islam

Civil rights - Religious aspects - Islam

Human rights - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2002 by RoutledgeCurzon"--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; From Human Rights to Human Dignity; 1 An integrated approach to human rights; 2 Development and



democracy in Asia; 3 Transforming rights: five challenges for the Asia-Pacific; 4 Judging Asia: assessing human rights conditionality; 5 UN High Commissioner for human rights; 6 Rethinking human rights: a philosophical debate; The Essence of Religion; 7 A spiritual vision of the human being; 8 A worldview for environmental salvation; 9 The Soviet Union and the denial of God

10 Religious conflict in Asia11 Religiosity on the rampage;  spirituality in slumber; 12 Islam: justice and politics; 13 Judiciary and justice; 14 Islamic movements and social change; 15 Islamisation of state and society; 16 Reflections on the Shariah; 17 Hudud: central to Islam?; 18 Iqbal and the challenge of reform; The Challenge of Reform; 19 The welfare state: the quest for an alternative; 20 The economic crisis; 21 Establishing a fully moral and ethical society; 22 Civil society in Malaysia; 23 Accommodation and acceptance of non-Muslim communities

24 Islam and Confucianism: ethnic relations in Malaysia25 Conclusion: the remembrance of God; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses issues concerning human rights and religion. Is a more integrated approach to human rights desirable - an approach that transcends the individual-centred orientation of civil and political liberties of the dominant centres of power in the West? How can religious thought contribute to an integrated notion of human rights and human dignity? What sort of transformation should religion itself undergo in order to enable it to come to grips with contemporary challenges? Related to this is a larger question: How can universal spiritual and moral values help to shape politics, the