05321nam 2200649Ia 450 99620165070331620170814164419.00-19-049098-51-280-59528-097866136251130-19-974251-0(CKB)2670000000161209(EBL)886693(OCoLC)781629095(SSID)ssj0000622716(PQKBManifestationID)11440843(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622716(PQKBWorkID)10642850(PQKB)10612590(StDuBDS)EDZ0000077424(MiAaPQ)EBC886693(EXLCZ)99267000000016120920110701d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe cosmic viewpoint[electronic resource] a study of Seneca's Natural questions /Gareth WilliamsOxford Oxford University Press20121 online resource (408 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-993311-1 0-19-973158-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Interiority and Cosmic Consciousness in the Natural Questions; I. Seneca's Totalizing Worldview; II. The Senecan Worldview Defined by Contrast with Cicero; III. Interiorization in the Preface to Book 3; IV. The Differing World Outlooks of Seneca and Pliny; V. The Natural Questions in Sociopolitical Context; 2. Seneca's Moralizing Interludes; I. The Problem; II. Hostius Quadra as the Anti-Sapiens; III. The Unified World as Drawn in Books 1 and 2.1-11; IV. Hostius Quadra and Seneca's Interlocutor in Book 1V. Of Subterranean Fish and Degenerate Diners in 3.17-18VI. Further Transgressions in 5.15 and 7.31-32; VII. The Textual Containment of Vice; 3. The Cataclysm and the Nile; I. Introduction; II. The Vice of Flattery; III. Lucilius in the Preface; IV. The Cataclysm of 3.27-30; V. Into Egypt; VI. The Nile, the Cataclysm and Ovid; VII. The Missing Link, and Other Theories of the Nile Flood; 4. The Rhetoric of Science; I. Introduction; II. 4b.13 in Context; III. The Rhetoric of Science; IV. Strategies of Argument in 4b.3-7; A. Reliance on Influential Authority; B. Argument by AnalogyC. Argument by Bold InferenceD. Competing Arguments; E. Superstition in Contention with Reason; V. The Better Argument; VI. Book 4b in Context; 5. Seneca on Winds; I. Introduction; II. Pre-Stoic and Stoic Theories of Wind; III. Seneca's Typology of Winds; IV. Mapping the Winds; A. The Cardinal Winds in Ovid; B. The Varronian Compass Card; C. The Twelve Sectors; D. Local Winds; V. Wind Direction, Human Misdirection; VI. The Roman Dimension; 6. Earthquakes, Consolation and the Senecan Sublime; I. Introduction; II. Consolatory Amplification Before Reduction; III. Sublime Superiority over NatureIV. The Two Verse Quotations at 6.2.1-3 and 6.2.9V. Controlling Nature in the Senecan Inventory (6.4-26); A. Taking Stock of Earlier Seismological Investigation; B. From Sight to Insight; C. From Analogical Inference to Abstract Speculation; D. The Living Cosmos; E. Elemental Interchangeability Revisited; F. The Normalization of Seismic Experience; VI. The Totum in Book 6; VII. The Campanian Earthquake in Perspective; 7. Seneca on Comets and Ancient Cometary Theory; I. Introduction; II. Seneca on Progress, on Hostius Quadra and on Nature's MysteriesIII. Sub- and Supralunary Interpretation of CometsIV. The Whirlwind Theory; V. The Optical Illusion Theory; VI. The Planetary Theory; VII. The Senecan Theory; 8. Seneca on Lightning and Divination; I. Introduction; II. Coordination Between 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; III. The Totalizing Worldview: Strategies of Unification in 2.1, 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; A. 2.1-11; B. 2.12-30 and 2.54-58; C. 2.32-51; IV. Seneca on Divination in 2.32-51; A. Reconciling Prayer and Expiation with a Deterministic View of Fate (2.35-38); B. The "Scientific" Classification of Lightning (2.39-40)C. Seneca's Rationalization of Etruscan Belief (2.42-46)Seneca's Natural Questions is an eight-book disquisition on the nature of meteorological phenomena, ranging inter alia from rainbows to earthquakes, from comets to the winds, from the causes of snow and hail to the reasons why the Nile floods in summer. Much of this material had been treated in the earlier Greco-Roman meteorological tradition, but what notoriously sets Seneca's writing apart is his insertion of extended moralizing sections within his technical discourse. How, if at all, are these outbursts against the luxury and vice that are apparently rampant in Seneca's first-century CE RomScience, AncientHistoriographyMeteorologyHistoriographyElectronic books.Science, AncientHistoriography.MeteorologyHistoriography.188500Williams Gareth D182982MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996201650703316The cosmic viewpoint2304330UNISA03227nam 22006135 450 991063989630332120251009103355.03-031-10968-610.1007/978-3-031-10968-3(MiAaPQ)EBC7167830(Au-PeEL)EBL7167830(CKB)25936423900041(DE-He213)978-3-031-10968-3(PPN)267810962(OCoLC)1357016487(EXLCZ)992593642390004120230101d2022 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe History of the GPU - Steps to Invention /by Jon Peddie1st ed. 2022.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2022.1 online resource (424 pages)Includes index.3-031-10967-8 1 Introduction -- 2 1980-1989, Graphics Controllers on Other Platforms -- 3 1980-1989, Graphics Controllers on PCs -- 4 1990-1995, Graphics Controllers on PCs -- 5 1990 to 1999 Graphics Controllers on Other Platform -- 6 1996-1999, Graphics Controllers on PCs -- 7 What is a GPU? -- Appendix A: Definitions -- Appendix B: Acronyms.This is the first book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU. Initially developed for games the GPU can now be found in cars, supercomputers, watches, game consoles and more. GPU concepts go back to the 1970s when computer graphics was developed for computer-aided design of automobiles and airplanes. Early computer graphics systems were adopted by the film industry and simulators for airplanes and high energy physics—exploding nuclear bombs in computers instead of the atmosphere. A GPU has an integrated transform and lighting engine, but these were not available until the end of the 1990s. Heroic and historic companies expanded the development and capabilities of the graphics controller in pursuit of the ultimate device, a fully integrated self-contained GPU. Fifteen companies worked on building the first fully integrated GPU, some succeeded in the console, and Northbridge segments, and Nvidia was the first to offer a fully integrated GPU for the PC. Today the GPU can be found in every platform that involves a computer and a user interface.Computer graphicsComputersHistoryUser interfaces (Computer systems)Human-computer interactionComputer GraphicsHistory of ComputingUser Interfaces and Human Computer InteractionComputer graphics.ComputersHistory.User interfaces (Computer systems)Human-computer interaction.Computer Graphics.History of Computing.User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.016.503006.6Peddie Jon481077MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910639896303321The history of the GPU3363603UNINA