A booke containing diuers sortes of hands [[electronic resource] ] : as well the English as French secretarie with the Italian, Roman chancelry & court hands. Also the true & iust proportio[n] of the capitall Romae set forth by Iohn de Bea. Chesne and M. Iohn Baildon

• Record Nr.: UNISA996392747603316
• Autore: Beau-Chesne Jehan de
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Imprinted at London, : By Richard Field dwelling in the Blacke-Friers neare Ludgate, [ca. 1610]
• Descrizione fisica: [88] p. : ill
• Altri autori (Persone): E. B <fl. 1571.>
• Soggetti: Penmanship
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: An edition of STC 6445.5.; Incorrectly reported as being based on "Le thresor d'escripture" (1550). The copies differ somewhat in the order of the woodcut specimens (printed only on the rectos in all editions) and in the quire signatures found on some of them. STC 6446 adds "Rules made by E.B. for his children to learn to write by". The type for the "Rules" is reimposed in folio format in STC 1024.5, where it is in the same 1-column typesetting. Later settings of the "Rules" in STC 6446.6 and following, 3361.3 and following, and 3363.5 and following are all in two columns.; Publication date from STC.; A2v last line reads: THE END. "Rules made by E.B. for children to write by" in the same typesetting as, but in a different imposition from STC 3361.7--Cf. STC.; Signatures: A-L⁴.; Imperfect; lacks L4.; Reproduction of the original in the Harvard University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0062

A brief history of the mind : from apes to intellect and beyond / / William H. Calvin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818289703321
• Autore: Calvin William H. <1939->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2005; 2004
• ISBN: 0-19-028933-3; 1-280-84553-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages)
• Disciplina: 612.82
• Soggetti: Brain - Evolution; Cognitive neuroscience; Evolutionary psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Annotation; Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Sommario/riassunto: This book looks back at the simpler versions of mental life in apes, Neanderthals, and our ancestors, back before our burst of creativity started 50,000 years ago. When you can't think about the future in much detail, you are trapped in a here-and-now existence with no "What if?" and "Why me?" William H. Calvin takes stock of what we have now and then explains why we are nearing a crossroads, where mind shifts gears again. The mind's big bang came long after our brain size stopped enlarging. Calvin suggests that the development of long sentences--what modern children do in their third year--was the most likely trigger. To keep a half-dozen concepts from blending together like a summer drink, you need some mental structuring. In saying "I think I saw him leave to go home," you are nesting three sentences inside a fourth. We also structure plans, play games with rules, create structured music and chains of logic, and have a fascination with discovering how things hang together. Our long train of connected thoughts is why our consciousness is so different from what came before. Where does mind go from here, its powers extended by ; science-enhanced education but with its slowly evolving gut instincts still firmly anchored in the ice ages? We will likely shift gears again, juggling more concepts and making decisions even faster, imagining courses of action in greater depth. Ethics are possible only because of a human level of ability to speculate, judge quality, and modify our possible actions accordingly. Though science increasingly serves as our headlights, we are out-driving them, going faster than we can react effectively.