Brepols 2002 (144 Ergebnisse)

Paperback, approx. 114 p., 130 x 190 mm. ISBN 9782503513027. Le mot vaudois evoque des realites religieuses tres differentes et dont les rapports dans le domaine de l'histoire et de la geographie ne sont pas evidents. Vaudois, c'est le nom que porterent les disciples de Valdes, un marchand lyonnais qui decida, au 12e siecle de v…

Paperback, 192 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513607. Dans sa fondation en 1666 a sa suppression en 1793, l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Paris fut le siege d'une intense activite editoriale. Ses publications constituent une mine inepuisable d'informations, non seulement pour les historiens des sciences, mais pour quiconque s'i…

Paperback, 256 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503514147. This volume illustrates the old and fruitful dialogue between historians of science and philosophers, as well as new collaborations with artists. It includes two symposia. The first one is on the history of scientific models, the seond is on science and music. It also contains…

Paperback, 246 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513676. The theme of materials in the history of technology has never been as well researched as other more popular areas like energy, production technology or transport and communication. The present collection of papers originating from the symposium on "Materials: Science, Technolo…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the third volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. This was a prolific period in the history of English book production, and the range of subject-matter illustrated is…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book highlights the importance of secular and profane prints for the reconstruction and understanding of themes popular in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, and examines their function as patterns for the other arts, and as sources for moral teaching and entertainment. As successors t…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Print Room of the Royal Library of Belgium currently possesses roughly 700,000 independent prints, including a few hundred early woodcuts and engravings from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which make up one of the most important parts of the collection. In the course of time, only…

Paperback, 356 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503512006. Addressing modern physics in its largest perspective, the present volume, which includes 34 contributions, begins with a reappraisal of classical science. However, the stress is placed on the contemporary period with sections devoted to thermodynamics and mechanics, the centen…

Paperback, 368 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513614. This volume begins with an essential and unpublished text of the late Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) on rising diseases. A set of 34 papers deals with the most diverse aspects of biological and medical sciences : biology in the classical age, natural history and world exploration,…

Paperback, 192 p., 145 x 210 mm. ISBN 9782869311039. Les textes reunis dans ce volume ont ete presentes lors des journees d'etudes organisees a l'automne 1999 au Centre d'Etudes Superieures de la Renaissance en collaboration avec la Fondazione Levi de Venise, dans le cadre du projet de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les echang…

Paperback, 338 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513690. The present volume is organised around two symposia of the XXth International Congress of History of Science, respectively devoted to the history of sundials and to the national inventories of scientific instruments. Separate studies on outstanding instruments, instrument-make…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Latin inscriptions found on buildings, tombstones, altars and votive monuments form a rich source of information for historians about classical Rome. By the early seventeenth century, ancient epigraphy had become a highly developed branch of learning, and the drawings of inscriptions preserved in th…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1622 Rubens published a splendid volume on Genoese Renaissance architecture, with precise engravings depicting facades and plans of a dozen villas and palaces. In publishing famous examples of 'modern' architecture, Rubens intended to trace the development of architecture in his own country and a…

Hardback, 201 p., 70 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, nieuw. ISBN 9789056220457. Tyndale's Testament vertelt het verhaal van hoe een geleerde uit Oxford een stem gaf aan de boerenjongen, en hoe zijn erfenis in het Engels als wereldtaal en in het politieke en religieuze gedachtengoed van onze moderne wereld blijft doorleven…