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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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What’s a Naturalist?: A Family Gallery Guide for All Ages: Stuffing Birds, Pressing Plants, Shaping Knowledge: Natural History in North America, 1730-1860
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Write your own Book of Nature in this Naturalists’ Journal; a guide to an exhibit held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. Take your own naturalist’s expedition inside the museum . . . & outside! Pickled fish, dried plants, colorful drawings, old books in glass cases: Many of the things in this natural history exhibition were collected in the years between 1730 & 1860, as evidence of the incredible variety of life that exists -- or once existed -- on earth. The people who collected these amazing things are called naturalists. A naturalist is a lot like a detective. These naturalists were trying to solve big mysteries about the natural world around them, such as: Why does a rattlesnake have a rattle? How did seashells get on top of a mountain far from the ocean? Illus.
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“One Grand Pursuit”: A Brief History of the American Philosophical Society’s First 250 Years, 1743-1993
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Edward C. Carter II began this project to create a souvenir for the Am. Philosophical Soc. (APS) 250th Anniversary Celebration in 1993 by expanding the 7-page “Brief History” which occationally appears in the APS “Year Book.” But when he began to review published sources on the history of the APS, he realized that he had to do much more. The APS is the oldest learned soc. in the U.S. & one of the most prestigious orgs. of its kind in the world. The story of the APS & those men & women members who have helped promote useful knowledge throughout the years is an extraordinary story. The general observations on these achievements here are intended to serve as an introduction to this account of the APS. Now mid-way through its third century, its form & flavor remarkably little changed, the APS is engaged in promoting useful knowledge, as it has always been. Illus.
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Accounts of European Science, Technology, and Medicine Written by American Travelers Abroad, 1735-1860, in the Collections of the American Philosophical Society
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Contents: Part One: Preliminary Observations & Suggestions for Further Study; & Part Two: An Annotated Bibliography of Printed & Manuscript Holdings at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library.
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Universal Bach: Lectures Celebrating the Tercentenary of Bach’s Birthday
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Martin A. Heckscher (fr). This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach’s Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach’s Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the “B-Minor Mass,” by Christoph Wolff; On Bach’s Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.
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American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society: Papers Read at a Meeting, June 5 1980
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For the first time the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society held a joint meeting in London in 1980. The program of the joint meeting consisted of two sessions, at which the following papers were presented: Foreword, by Jonathan E. Rhoads; Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Bohr-Einstein Dialog, by John Archibald Wheeler; Ways of Seeing, or Epistemology in the Arts: Unities and Disunities in Shakespearean Drama and Elizabethan Painting, by Roland Mushat Frye; and Benjamin Franklin, The British Statesman: A Reappraisal, by Esmond Wright. Illus.
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Bio-Bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences Since 1800 (2nd ed.)
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Since the publication of the previous version of this work (1982) & a supp. (1985), many books & journal articles have provided info. about persons who have played a role in the develop. of the biochem. sciences during the 19th & 20th cent. Moreover, recent discoveries have called attention to individuals whose research forms part of the historical background of these advances in biochem. knowledge. Hence this vol. includes additional citations for the many people listed in the previous edition, & the number of separate entries has increased. Includes individuals not usually listed among biologists or chemists, from disciplines ranging from physics to pharmacy. Each entry includes ref. to bio. or biblio. ref. works or citations of books & articles in serial pub., or both.
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Continuations of the Old French “Perceval” of Chrétien de Troyes: Volume I: The First Continuation: Redaction of Manuscript “T V D” (corrected edition)
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Between 1949 and 1983, William Roach produced the sole modern ed. of the First, Second, and Manessier Continuations of the Old French Perceval of Chrétien de Troyes, based on all the manuscripts. Most vol. are out of print, but the popularity of King Arthur and the Grail legend keeps interest in the subject high. Vol. I, containing the Mixed Redaction of the First Continuatio—where Gauvain in the principal character—is once again avail. This new ed., entirely re-set, incorporates all of the corrections indicated by Roach. The extensive introduction has been brought up to date. There are many new notes to the text, and a complete bibliography. A subject index to the notes provides easy access to the wealth of grammatical and linguistic analysis they contain.
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Rising People: The Founding of the United States, 1765 to 1789
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Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. (au); Julian P. Boyd (in). Catalogue of a joint exhibition to celebrate the Amer. Bicentennial, held in Philadelphia from April 28 through Nov. 1976, with materials from the collections of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, & The Library Company of Philadelphia. The catalogue, like the exhibit itself, is addressed to Amer. citizens who wish both to know more about the formation of the Amer. nation in the years from 1765 to 1789 & to see the very books & documents in which the men of that generation recorded their thoughts, decisions, & acts. The catalogue therefore excludes bibliographical data; but it contains commentaries on the significance of individual entries. Profusely illustrated.
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Practical Geometry in the High Middle Ages: “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio” and the “Pratike de geometrie”: Edited with Translation and Commentary
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Contents: (I) The Place of Practical Geometry in the Middle Ages: The Nature of Practical Geometry; Practical Geometry in Education; Theory & Practice in Geometry; & Practical Geometry & Practical Concerns; (II) The Contents of “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio” & the “Pratike de geometrie”; (III) Procedures in the Editions, Translations, & Commentary: Editing “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio”; Editing the “Pratike de geometrie”; Translating the Texts; & About the commentary; & (IV) English translation of “Arts cuiuslibet consummatio” & of the “Pratike de geometrie.” Selected Bibliography, Index of Latin Technical Terms, Index of Old French Technical Terms, & Index of Astronomical Parameters. Illus.
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