Encounters with Euclid : how an ancient Greek geometry text shaped the world / / Benjamin Wardhaugh |
Autore | Wardhaugh Benjamin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (416 p.) : 34 b/w illus |
Disciplina | 516.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Geometry
Mathematics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Early works. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Alfred North Whitehead
Baruch Spinoza Bodleian Library Copernicus Edna St. Vincent Millay Euclidean geometry Galileo Galilei Galileo Hobbes Johannes Kepler Kepler Platonic solids Proclus Ptolemaic Egypt Pythagorean theorem Spinoza Thales' theorem Thomas Hobbes Vatican Library book history geometric algebra golden ratio great books history of math history of mathematics history of the book lemma logic mathematical proofs music theory parallel postulate perspective plane geometry prime numbers |
ISBN | 0-691-21981-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- I: AUTHOR -- Alexandria -- Elephantine -- Hypsicles -- Theon of Alexandria -- Stephanos the scribe -- Al-Hajjaj -- Adelard -- Erhard Ratdolt -- Marget Seymer her hand -- Edward Bernard -- Interlude -- II: SAGE -- Plato -- Proclus Diadochus -- Hroswitha of Gandersheim -- Rabbi Levi ben Gershom -- Christoph Clavius -- Xu Guangqi -- Blame not our author -- Baruch Spinoza -- Anne Lister -- Interlude -- III: HERO -- Petechonsis -- Dividing the monochord -- Hyginus -- Muhammad Abu al-Wafa al-Buzjani -- Lady Geometria -- Piero della Francesca -- Euclid Speidell -- Isaac Newton -- Interlude -- IV: SHADOW AND MASK -- Mary Fairfax -- François Peyrard -- Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevskii -- Maggie and Tom -- Simson in Urdu -- His modern rivals -- Thomas Little Heath -- Max Ernst -- Euclidean designs -- Lambda -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Image Credits -- Notes on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554265903321 |
Wardhaugh Benjamin | ||
Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition / / ed. by Scott Reese |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VIII, 374 p.) |
Disciplina | 091.091767 |
Collana | Studies in Manuscript Cultures |
Soggetto topico | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
Islamic literature
book history manuscript studies manuscript |
ISBN | 3-11-077648-0 |
Classificazione | AN 18680 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Overlooked: The Role of Craft in the Adoption of Typography in the Muslim Middle East -- The Ottoman System of Scripts and the Müteferrika Press -- The Official Urge to Simplify Arabic Printing: Introduction to Nadīm’s 1948 Memo -- Muḥammad Nadīm’s 1948 Memo on Arabic Script Reform: Transcription and Translation -- Part II -- Calligraphic Masterpiece, Mass-Produced Scripture: Early Qur’an Printing in Colonial India -- Cermin Mata (‘The Eyeglass’): A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Missionary Journal from Singapore -- ‘The Ink of Excellence’: Print and the Islamic Written Tradition of East Africa -- Early Ethiopian Islamic Printed Books: A First Assessment with a Special Focus on the Works of shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Annī (d. 1882) -- Printing and Textual Authority in the Twentieth-Century Muridiyya -- ‘Printed Manuscripts’: Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Nigerian Qur’anic Printing -- Technology and Local Tradition: The Making of the Printing Industry in Kano -- Indexes -- Contributors |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996487160803316 |
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Miracles of book and body [[electronic resource] ] : Buddhist textual culture and medieval Japan / / Charlotte Eubanks |
Autore | Eubanks Charlotte D (Charlotte Diane), <1971-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 294.3/85 |
Collana | Buddhisms |
Soggetto topico |
Books and reading - Religious aspects - Buddhism
Buddhism - Japan - History - 1185-1600 Buddhist literature, Japanese - History and criticism Folk literature, Japanese - History and criticism Movement, Psychology of - Religious aspects - Buddhism |
Soggetto non controllato |
affect theory
amida bodhisattvas book history buddha buddhism buddhist texts china cult of the book dharma east asia embodiment explanatory tales history of the book indian scriptures japan japanese didactic tales mahayana buddhism materiality medieval japan memory miracles nonfiction popular religion preaching religion religious texts sacred literature sacred texts scroll sermons setsuwa spirituality sutra recitations sutra textual culture transubstantiation |
ISBN |
1-283-27739-5
9786613277398 0-520-94789-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Note on Sutras -- Note on Setsuwa -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Cult of the Book and the Culture of Text -- 1. The Ontology of Sutras -- 2. Locating Setsuwa in Performance -- 3. Decomposing Bodies, Composing Texts -- 4. Textual Transubstantiation and the Place of Memory -- Conclusion. On Circumambulatory Reading -- Notes -- Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785423103321 |
Eubanks Charlotte D (Charlotte Diane), <1971-> | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Privilege and property [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the history of copyright / / edited by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer and Lionel Bently |
Autore | Bently Lionel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 438 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 352.749 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DeazleyRonan
KretschmerMartin BentlyLionel |
Soggetto topico | Copyright - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
law
book history cultural studies legal history intellectual property creative commons copyright history public domain john milton aesthetics copyright law patent censorship Monopoly |
ISBN |
1-906924-20-1
2-8218-1699-5 1-906924-18-X |
Classificazione | 86.33 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. The history of copyright history : notes from an emerging discipline / Martin Kretschmer, with Lionel Bently and Ronan Deazley -- From gunpowder to print : the common origins of copyright and patent / Joanna Kostylo -- 'A mongrel of early modern copyright' : Scotland in European perspective / Alastair J. Mann -- Public sphere and the emergence of copyright : Areopagitica, the Stationers' Company, and the Statute of Anne / Mark Rose -- Early American printing privileges. The ambivalent origins of authors' copyright in America / Oren Bracha -- Author and work in the French print privileges system : some milestones / Laurent Pfister -- Venetian experiment on perpetual copyright / Maurizio Borghi -- Copyright formalities and the reasons for their decline in nineteenth century Europe / Stef van Gompel -- Berlin publisher Friedrich Nicolai and the reprinting sections of the Prussian Statute Book of 1794 / Friedemann Kawohl -- Nineteenth century controversies relating to the protection of artistic property in France / FreÌdeÌric Rideau -- Maps, views and ornament : visualising property in art and law. The case of pre-modern France / Katie Scott -- Breaking the mould? The radical nature of the Fine Arts Copyright Bill 1862 / Ronan Deazley -- 'Neither bolt nor chain, iron safe nor private watchman, can prevent the theft of words' : the birth of the performing right in Britain / Isabella Alexander -- Return of the commons - copyright history as a common source / Karl-Nikolaus Peifer -- Significance of copyright history for publishing history and historians / John Feather -- Metaphors of intellectual property / William St Clair -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996214904003316 |
Bently Lionel | ||
Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Privilege and property [[electronic resource] ] : essays on the history of copyright / / edited by Ronan Deazley, Martin Kretschmer and Lionel Bently |
Autore | Bently Lionel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 438 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 352.749 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
DeazleyRonan
KretschmerMartin BentlyLionel |
Soggetto topico | Copyright - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
law
book history cultural studies legal history intellectual property creative commons copyright history public domain john milton aesthetics copyright law patent censorship Monopoly |
ISBN |
1-906924-20-1
2-8218-1699-5 1-906924-18-X |
Classificazione | 86.33 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction. The history of copyright history : notes from an emerging discipline / Martin Kretschmer, with Lionel Bently and Ronan Deazley -- From gunpowder to print : the common origins of copyright and patent / Joanna Kostylo -- 'A mongrel of early modern copyright' : Scotland in European perspective / Alastair J. Mann -- Public sphere and the emergence of copyright : Areopagitica, the Stationers' Company, and the Statute of Anne / Mark Rose -- Early American printing privileges. The ambivalent origins of authors' copyright in America / Oren Bracha -- Author and work in the French print privileges system : some milestones / Laurent Pfister -- Venetian experiment on perpetual copyright / Maurizio Borghi -- Copyright formalities and the reasons for their decline in nineteenth century Europe / Stef van Gompel -- Berlin publisher Friedrich Nicolai and the reprinting sections of the Prussian Statute Book of 1794 / Friedemann Kawohl -- Nineteenth century controversies relating to the protection of artistic property in France / FreÌdeÌric Rideau -- Maps, views and ornament : visualising property in art and law. The case of pre-modern France / Katie Scott -- Breaking the mould? The radical nature of the Fine Arts Copyright Bill 1862 / Ronan Deazley -- 'Neither bolt nor chain, iron safe nor private watchman, can prevent the theft of words' : the birth of the performing right in Britain / Isabella Alexander -- Return of the commons - copyright history as a common source / Karl-Nikolaus Peifer -- Significance of copyright history for publishing history and historians / John Feather -- Metaphors of intellectual property / William St Clair -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910132637103321 |
Bently Lionel | ||
Cambridge, : Open Book Publishers, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Die Syntax von Titelblättern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts / / Ursula Götz [and three others] |
Autore | Götz Ursula |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 686.2 |
Collana | Lingua historica Germanica |
Soggetto topico |
Title pages - History - 16th century
Title pages - History - 17th century Printing - Germany - History German language - Syntax |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical linguistics
book history early new high German title page |
ISBN | 3-11-054542-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Korpus -- 3. Anzahl der Wörter auf den Titelblättern -- 4. Inhaltlich-funktionale Bestandteile der Titelblätter -- 5. Syntaktische Strukturen auf den Titelblättern -- 6. Titelblatttypische Formulierungsmuster. Zur syntaktischen Realisierung der inhaltlichfunktionalen Abschnitte -- 7. Die Syntax frühneuhochdeutscher Titelblätter und ihrer lateinischen Vorlagen -- 8. Merkmale und Prinzipien der Syntax von Titelblättern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Eine Zusammenfassung -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis der Titelblätter des Korpus -- Anhang: Abbildungen von ausgewählten Titelblättern des Korpus -- Personen- und Sachregister |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796638103321 |
Götz Ursula | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Die Syntax von Titelblättern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts / / Ursula Götz [and three others] |
Autore | Götz Ursula |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 384 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 686.2 |
Collana | Lingua historica Germanica |
Soggetto topico |
Title pages - History - 16th century
Title pages - History - 17th century Printing - Germany - History German language - Syntax |
Soggetto non controllato |
Historical linguistics
book history early new high German title page |
ISBN | 3-11-054542-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Vorwort -- Inhalt -- 1. Einleitung -- 2. Korpus -- 3. Anzahl der Wörter auf den Titelblättern -- 4. Inhaltlich-funktionale Bestandteile der Titelblätter -- 5. Syntaktische Strukturen auf den Titelblättern -- 6. Titelblatttypische Formulierungsmuster. Zur syntaktischen Realisierung der inhaltlichfunktionalen Abschnitte -- 7. Die Syntax frühneuhochdeutscher Titelblätter und ihrer lateinischen Vorlagen -- 8. Merkmale und Prinzipien der Syntax von Titelblättern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Eine Zusammenfassung -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Tabellen- und Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis der Titelblätter des Korpus -- Anhang: Abbildungen von ausgewählten Titelblättern des Korpus -- Personen- und Sachregister |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822968503321 |
Götz Ursula | ||
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Textes fugitifs : Le récit d’esclave au prisme de l’histoire du livre / / Michaël Roy |
Autore | Roy Michaël |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lyon, : ENS Éditions, 2018 |
Soggetto topico |
History
récits d’esclaves littérature africaine-américaine histoire du livre culture imprimée édition slave narratives African American literature book history print culture publishing |
Soggetto non controllato |
print culture
African American literature publishing slave narratives book history |
ISBN | 2-84788-970-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416516403321 |
Roy Michaël | ||
Lyon, : ENS Éditions, 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations : : 1680-1830 / / Clorinda Donato, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [s.l.] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
Soggetto topico |
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / European / German Literary Criticism / European / French Literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Diderot
Italian enlightenment book history encyclopedic compilations geography of the book iberoamerican enlightenment long eighteenth century translated encyclopedias transnational enlightenment |
ISBN | 1-4875-4159-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The Savary des Bruslons' Dictionnaire universel de commerce: Translations and Adaptations -- Chapter two. The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias -- Chapter three. Camels in the Alps? Translation, Transfer, and Adaptation in Dutch Encyclopedias and Their European Predecessors -- Chapter four. Long Haul: Blussé's Complete Description of Trades and Occupations -- Chapter five. Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in the Encyclopédie méthodique -- Chapter six. Branding Knowledge through Translation in Late Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias: Italy, Spain, and Switzerland -- Chapter seven. The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770-1789) -- Chapter eight. Translating Liberalism: Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon and the Development of an International European Constitutional Discourse -- Chapter nine. Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s: The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopédie des gens du monde -- Chapter ten. Compiling Based on Translations: Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes -- Chapter eleven. Encyclopedic Writing -- Chapter twelve. Barbarians in the Archive: Transfer of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert -- Chapter thirteen. The Last Encyclopédie -- Appendix. Cited Encyclopedias and Translations/Adaptations -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910645963503321 |
[s.l.] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations : : 1680-1830 / / Clorinda Donato, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [s.l.] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (375 p.) |
Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
Soggetto topico |
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / European / German Literary Criticism / European / French Literature - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Diderot
Italian enlightenment book history encyclopedic compilations geography of the book iberoamerican enlightenment long eighteenth century translated encyclopedias transnational enlightenment |
ISBN | 1-4875-4159-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. The Savary des Bruslons' Dictionnaire universel de commerce: Translations and Adaptations -- Chapter two. The Cultural and Esthetic Challenges of Translating English and German Articles on the Performing Arts in French Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias -- Chapter three. Camels in the Alps? Translation, Transfer, and Adaptation in Dutch Encyclopedias and Their European Predecessors -- Chapter four. Long Haul: Blussé's Complete Description of Trades and Occupations -- Chapter five. Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in the Encyclopédie méthodique -- Chapter six. Branding Knowledge through Translation in Late Eighteenth-Century Encyclopedias: Italy, Spain, and Switzerland -- Chapter seven. The Migration of Beccaria's Penal Ideas in Encyclopedic Compilations (1770-1789) -- Chapter eight. Translating Liberalism: Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon and the Development of an International European Constitutional Discourse -- Chapter nine. Two French Konversationslexika of the 1830s and 1840s: The Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture and the Encyclopédie des gens du monde -- Chapter ten. Compiling Based on Translations: Notes on Raynal's and Diderot's Work on the Histoire des deux Indes -- Chapter eleven. Encyclopedic Writing -- Chapter twelve. Barbarians in the Archive: Transfer of Knowledge of the Colonial Other in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert -- Chapter thirteen. The Last Encyclopédie -- Appendix. Cited Encyclopedias and Translations/Adaptations -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996580166703316 |
[s.l.] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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