1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996234837503316

Autore

Coray Marina

Titolo

Homers Ilias . Band XI Achtzehnter Gesang (S) . Faszikel 2 Kommentar : Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar/BK) / / von Marina Coray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-11-040701-9

3-11-040718-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Sammlung Wissenschaftlicher Commentare, , 1864-3426

Classificazione

FH 20080

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

Epic poetry, Greek - Criticism, Textual

Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Trojan War - Literature and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Inhalt -- Vorwort -- Hinweise zur Benutzung (mit Abkürzungsverzeichnis) -- 24 Regeln zur homerischen Sprache (R) -- Tabellarischer Überblick über die Handlung des 18. Gesangs -- Kommentar -- Bibliographische Abkürzungen



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786965603321

Autore

Smith Meg Weston

Titolo

Beating the odds : the life and times of E.A. Milne / / Meg Weston Smith ; foreword by Rober Penrose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Imperial College Press, c2013

London : , : Imperial College Press, , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

1-84816-908-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 282 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

523.01092

Soggetti

Astrophysicists - Great Britain

Astrophysics

Cosmology

Religion and science

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Abbreviations in the Footnotes; Contents; Chapter 1. A Foothold on the Ladder; Chapter 2. The Upheavals of War; Chapter 3. Adventures with Reflections; Chapter 4. The Trials of Trumpets; Chapter 5. Cambridge Rhapsody; Chapter 6. Riding on a Sunbeam; Chapter 7. New Horizons; Chapter 8. A Scientific Wilderness; Chapter 9. Cut and Thrust; Chapter 10. Family versus College; Chapter 11. Cosmic Inspiration; Chapter 12. Oxford's Enlightenment; Chapter 13. The Pendulum and the Atom; Chapter 14. Lifeline

Chapter 15. Mathematics, Bombs and BureaucracyChapter 16. An Invitation; Chapter 17. A Race Unfinished; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

E A Milne was one of the giants of 20th century astrophysics and cosmology. His bold ideas, underpinned by his Christianity, sparked controversy - he believed two time scales operate in the universe.Struggling against poverty, Milne won five scholarships to Cambridge, but he never finished his degree. In World War I he was invited to develop Horace Darwin's device for anti-aircraft gunnery and after the



Armistice his prowess in ballistics took him straight to a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. By the age of thirty he was a Manchester professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society. At Oxf