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Benjamin Franklin on The Art of Eating: Together with the Rules of Health & Long Life & the Rules to Find out a Fit Measure of Meat & Drink, with Several Recipes
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by: Benjamin Franklin (au); Gilbert Chinard (au); Roy Goodman (in)A Special Limited Edition to Celebrate the 300th Anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s Birth. The accidental discovery in the Franklin Papers of a set of cooking recipes & the many allusions to food scattered through Ben Franklin’s various works & letters have led to an inquiry the results of which may throw some new light on a little studied aspect of the Sage of Philadelphia. This concise book, a special edition of the 1958 original, contains an essay on “Benjamin Franklin On the Art of Eating” by Gilbert Chinard; a collection of Franklin’s “Rules [for Eating] & Recipes”; & an introduction by Roy Goodman, assistant librarian & curator of printed materials at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS). Illustrations. A great keepsake at a great price!
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Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello
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Robert Munman (au). There is considerable evidence for Donatello’s use of optical corrections that scholars have largely ignored. It may come in some degree from an unwillingness to accept the idea that such visual effects, developed only in the 16th century & not common until the Baroque, were even possible in the early Renaissance. This study, by its arguments & its photographic evidence, may reopen the discussion of optical corrections in the work of Donatello &, perhaps, in that of some of his contemporaries & followers as well. Contents: Introduction; Donatello’s Sculpture in the Round; The Reliefs; Bibliography of Frequently Cited Sources; & 64 black & white photos of Donatello’s sculptures.
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Fighting for the Good Cause: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology
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Gerald Sweeney (au). Sir Francis Galton is well understood to have served as an influential mentor for the educational psychologists who supplied crucial doctrine to American eugenics in its classic period, 1903 to 1930. Yet the nature of his influence has never been specified. The psychologists' own claim as to the Galton's contribution -- that he provided sufficient justification for their absolutist hereditarianism -- was clearly disingenuous. Rather, the English polymath appears to have functioned in large part as a model for these figures, who appear to have been instrumentally informed by their perceptions of Galton's ulterior purposes in constructing eugenics as he did. Any of various features in the 45-year-long course of that development could have encouraged these particular legatees to appreciate both Galton & his product as surreptitious stanchers of democracy.
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Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
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E.S. Kennedy (au). The most impressive aspect of the source material for the study of medieval oriental astronomy is its overwhelming quantity of Byzantine Greek, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, & Turkish astronomical & astrological manuscripts. Anyone wishing to assist in building up a precise & detailed picture of Islamic astronomy is constrained to choose his material from amid a welter of easily available manuscripts. Of these manuscript masses it is possible to isolate a fairly well-defined group of works, the “zijes,” which make up the most significant & historically rewarding subclass of the whole. A “zij” consists essentially of the numerical tables & accompanying explanation sufficient to enable the practising astronomer, or astrologer, to solve all the standard problems of his profession, i.e. to measure time & to compute planetary & stellar positions, appearance, & eclipses. This paper is a survey of the number, distribution, contents, & relations between “zijes” written in Arabic or Persian during the period from the 8th through the 15th centuries of the Christian era. Illus. Oversize.
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Henry Adams & His World
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David R. Contosta (ed); Robert Muccigrosso (ed). Contents: Introduction, by David R. Contosta & Robert Muccigrosso; Lies, Silence, & Truth in the Writings of Henry Adams, by Edward Chalfant; Henry Adams & Politics, by Ari Hoogenboom; Henry Adams & the American Century, by David R. Contosta; Religion as Culture: Henry Adams’s ‘Mont-Saint-Michel & Chartres’, by Alfred Kazin; Henry Adams’s Anthropological Vision as American Identity, by Eugenia Kaledin; Henry Adams & the American Artists: The Two Mansions, by Paul R. Baker; A Dissenting View of John Quincy Adams, by Peter Shaw; Henry Adams & the European Tradition of the Philosophy of History, by John Lukacs; & Failure or Success? Our Legacy from Henry Adams, by Earl N Harbert.
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Redemptioner: The Story of a Young Man in the American Revolution
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Isaac Rusling Pennypacker (au). The sea chest with 400 pounds of sterling cleverly hidden in a secret compartment rested abandoned on the quay as the square-rigger put out from England in a freshening breeze. Young Richard Holt, the now penniless owner of the chest, was headed for Phila. in the tumultuous year of 1774, & this is the story of how he “redeemed” himself. This is a lively tale of what life was like in the years just before & during the Revolution, the metamorphosis of a young English lad into a loyal American, wild & dangerous adventures with thieves, a warming love story, & much more. Author Pennypacker’s family was active during the revol. war -- Gen. Wash. estab. his hdqtrs. at Pennypacker’s Mills leading up to the battle of Germantown in 1777.
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Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom (Memoir 201)
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Memoir 201The tall tales of medieval pilgrims & the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the middle ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet & the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: early legends & prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz & the “Red Apple”; & Translations of the Koran & Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illus.
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Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the French Revolution: The Ami du Roi of the Abbe Royou (Memoir 198)
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Memoir 198
Harvey Chisick wrote this study after he came across the documents that form the heart of this study, the subscription lists to the the newspaper the “Ami du Roi”, by accident while working on a a comparative study of the “Anne Litteraire” & “Journal Encyclopedique.” Contents of this vol.: The Periodical Press in the 18th Century; The Short, Unhappy & Principled Career of the “Ami du Roi” of the Abbe Royou; The Production & Distribution of the “Ami du Roi”; The Office of the “Ami du Roi” as a Center for the Dissemination of Pamphlet Literature; The Subscribers to the “Ami du Roi”: Geographical Distribution, Gender & Collective Subscriptions; The Subscribers of the “Ami du Roi”: Status & Occupation; The Enlightenment & Counter-Revolution: The Contract Founding the “Ami du Roi”; Classification of Subscribers to the “Ami du Roi”; & Bibliography.
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Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 (Memoir 211)
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Memoir 211
An exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images & perceptions in society on the one hand & the changing social & cultural conditons that have constantly affected the alterations of those images & perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illus.
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Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Memoir 179)
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Memoir 179
This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water--or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th century being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th century. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tract, in most cases it spreads when the excreta of an ill person get into the water supply. Phila. was suuffering from a typhoid epidemic when a terrible snowstorm hit in Feb. 1899. The disease struck every ward in the city--wealthy & poor alike suffered since infected river water made its way through the entire system. Phila. public health officials, the major & common council recognized that the city’s pumping stations required new filtration systems, but the select council killed the bill. Thanks to episodes like this in other civic affairs, Phila. suffered from a poor reputation for being, in Lincoln Steffens’ words, “corrupt & contented.” This negative view of the city’s performance around the turn of the century is still prevalent. This study takes another look at the people who were trying to solve the public health crisis. It also explores the problem of typhoid from the viewpoint of professionals in the emerging field of public health, beginning with the early years of the Phila. water works. Illus.
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