The Perfect Art of Navigation
Author: John Dee
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781497915107
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The Perfect Art of Navigation
John Dee
Author: Gerald Suster
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2003-08-08
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781556434723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although revered in his own time, John Dee (1527-1608) was until recently regarded as an isolated crank on the margins of Tudor history. This anthology of Dee's writings illustrates his diverse interests and his central position in the history of Renaissance thought and the development of Western Magic. Dee's celebrated Preface to Euclid is included along with selections from his Spiritual Diaries and letters to other mystics and royals. In addition to Hermetic and Cabalistic philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, and navigation are also covered.
The Perfect Arte of Navigation
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science
Author: David C. Lindberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0521572444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.
John Dee: The World of the Elizabethan Magus
Author: Peter J. French
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1134572344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1987. John Dee was Renaissance England's first Hermetic magus, a philosopher magician. He was also a respected practical scientist, an immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. In this fine biography, Peter French shows that not only magic and science, but geography, antiquarianism, theology and the fine arts were fields in which Dee was deeply involved. Through his teaching, writing and friendships with many of the most important figures of the age, Dee was at the centre of great affairs and had a profound influence on major developments in sixteenth-century England. Peter French places this extraordinary individual within his proper historical context, describing the whole world of Renaissance science, Platonism and Hermetic magic.
The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times
Men Viewing Women as Art Objects
Author: Christoph E. Schweitzer
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781571132598
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Varied images of women studied in a variety of German texts as a springboard for plot or character. A man looks at the portrait of a woman and then sets out to 'liberate'her and make her his own (Die Zauberflöte, Maria Stuart); an oldman, while looking at the picture of his youthful beloved, reminiscesabout his failedcourtship (Storm's Immensee). These are just twoof many uses of art works depicting women discussed in this book. Theart work can displace the living woman as in Hauff's 'Die Bettlerinvom Pont des Arts', in Jensen's 'Gradiva', and in Schimmang's'Intimität'. A man looking at a painting of himself (E. T. A.Hoffmann's Die Fermate) or a man looking at a sculpture comes toappreciate the beauty of the female figure, both in art and life(Stifter's Der Nachsommer). The innovative approach, which in part goes back to theories developed by Lessing in his Laokoon, yields, via a close reading of a variety of the texts, new insights into their structure and meaning.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660
Author: George Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1974-08-29
Total Pages: 1322
ISBN-13: 9780521200042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Dire Straits
Author: Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-01-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1442645016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →England became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers acutely aware of their inhabiting an island often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical tradition, in which the British Isles were seen as culturally remote compared to the centrally important Mediterranean of antiquity. This was a struggle for writers not only because they used the classical tradition to legitimate their authority, but also because this image dominated cognitive maps of the oceanic world. As the first study of coastlines and early modern English literature, Dire Straits investigates the tensions of the classical tradition's isolation of the British Isles from the domain of poetry. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature.
