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UNINA9911134659603321 |
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Autore |
Shockley |
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Titolo |
The captain's widow of Sandwich : self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917 / / Megan Taylor Shockley |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
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9780814786529 |
0814786529 |
9780814741290 |
0814741290 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Ship captains' spouses - Massachusetts - Sandwich |
Middle class women - Massachusetts - Sandwich |
Women - Massachusetts - Sandwich |
Seafaring life - Massachusetts - Sandwich - History - 19th century |
Women - Identity |
Autobiography - Women authors |
Sandwich (Mass.) Biography |
Sandwich (Mass.) Social life and customs 19th century Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author’s Note on the Journals -- Introduction -- 1. Rebecca’s World -- 2. Becoming the Captain’s Wife -- 3. Rebecca at Sea -- 4. Challenges and Transitions -- 5. A New Era, a New Narrative -- 6. Visible and Invisible -- 7. From Legacy to Legend -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author |
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In 1852 Hannah Rebecca Crowell married sea captain William Burgess and set sail. Within three years, Rebecca Burgess had crossed the equator eleven times and learned to navigate a vessel. In 1856, 22-year-old Rebecca saved the ship Challenger as her husband lay dying from dysentery. The widow returned to her family’s home in Sandwich, |
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Massachusetts, where she refused all marriage proposals and died wealthy in 1917.This is the way Burgess recorded her story in her prodigious journals and registers, which she donated to the local historical society upon her death, but there is no other evidence that this dramatic event occurred exactly this way. In The Captain’s Widow of Sandwich, Megan Taylor Shockley examines how Burgess constructed her own legend and how the town of Sandwich embraced that history as its own. Through careful analysis of myriad primary sources, Shockley also addresses how Burgess dealt with the conflicting gender roles of her life, reconciling her traditionally masculine adventures at sea and her independent lifestyle with the accepted ideals of the period’s “Victorian woman.” |
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UNINA9911139677403321 |
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Oresme Nicole <approximately 1320-1382.> |
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Nicole Oresme's De visione stellarum (On seeing the stars) : a critical edition of Oresme's treatise on optics and atmospheric refraction / / with an introduction, commentary, and English translation by Dan Burton |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007 |
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1-281-40051-3 |
9786611400514 |
90-474-1089-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Medieval and early modern science, , 1567-8393 ; ; v. 7 |
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Optics |
Refraction, Astronomical |
Science, Medieval |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2000. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-282) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material / D. Burton -- Chapter I. Introduction / D. Burton -- Chapter II. Nicole Oresme’S Life And Works / D. Burton -- Chapter III. The Writing Of De Visione Stellarum: Author, Date, Titles, And |
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Influence / D. Burton -- Chapter IV. Overview And Commentary Onoresme’S De Visione Stellarum / D. Burton -- Chapter V. Manuscripts / D. Burton -- Chapter VI. Editorial Procedures / D. Burton -- Chapter VII. Citation List Of Authors Quoted Or Alluded To In Oresme’S De Visione Stellarum / D. Burton -- Part II. Nicole Oresme’S De Visione Stellarum Latin Critical Edition With English Translation / D. Burton -- Part III. Bibliography And Indices / D. Burton. |
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In this critical edition and translation of Nicole Oresme’s On Seeing the Stars , the renowned 14th-century natural philosopher proposes that the stars are not where they seem. And perhaps nothing is where it seems. In this earliest treatise on atmospheric refraction, Oresme uses optics and infinitesimals to help solve this vexing problem of astronomy. He is the first to propose that light travels along a curve through the atmosphere – two centuries before Hooke and Newton, who are credited with the discovery. Further, he calls all sense data into doubt. Oresme’s argument concerning the curvature of light is a major milestone in the history of science, confirming that Oresme was one of the most innovative scientists of the pre-modern world. |
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