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Author |
: Francesca Rochberg |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2017-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226406275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022640627X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Nature by : Francesca Rochberg
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult—if not impossible—to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science—without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.
Author |
: Jean Dorst |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 1971 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Nature Dies by : Jean Dorst
Author |
: H. Paul Santmire |
Publisher |
: Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781451473001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1451473001 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Nature by : H. Paul Santmire
Before Nature caps a set of themes first brought to the fore in Santmires previous work. Santmire continues the pursuit of a theology bound up with nature and its condition, especially the fragility and fervent expectation of natures redemption. Santmire invites readers on a theological and spiritual journey to a prayerful and contemplative knowledge of the Triune God, in which practitioners are inducted into a bountiful relationship with the cosmic and universal ministry of Christ and the Spirit.
Author |
: Francesca Rochberg |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2020-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226759586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022675958X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Nature by : Francesca Rochberg
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it. Before the concept of nature formed over the long history of European philosophy and science, our ancestors in ancient Assyria and Babylonia developed an inquiry into the world in a way that is kindred to our modern science. With Before Nature, Francesca Rochberg explores that Assyro-Babylonian knowledge tradition and shows how it relates to the entire history of science. From a modern, Western perspective, a world not conceived somehow within the framework of physical nature is difficult—if not impossible—to imagine. Yet, as Rochberg lays out, ancient investigations of regularity and irregularity, norms and anomalies clearly established an axis of knowledge between the knower and an intelligible, ordered world. Rochberg is the first scholar to make a case for how exactly we can understand cuneiform knowledge, observation, prediction, and explanation in relation to science—without recourse to later ideas of nature. Systematically examining the whole of Mesopotamian science with a distinctive historical and methodological approach, Before Nature will open up surprising new pathways for studying the history of science.
Author |
: Carl Ortwin Sauer |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 1975-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0913666017 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780913666012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Man in Nature by : Carl Ortwin Sauer
Author |
: Keith Stewart Thomson |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2007-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 030012600X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300126006 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Darwin by : Keith Stewart Thomson
Scientists and thologians had long been debating the religious implicaitons of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection.
Author |
: Michael P. Branch |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820325481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820325484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading the Roots by : Michael P. Branch
Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
Author |
: Brian Allen Drake |
Publisher |
: University of Washington Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2013-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780295804859 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0295804858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Loving Nature, Fearing the State by : Brian Allen Drake
A "conservative environmental tradition" in America may sound like a contradiction in terms, but as Brian Allen Drake shows in Loving Nature, Fearing the State, right-leaning politicians and activists have shaped American environmental consciousness since the environmental movement's beginnings. In this wide-ranging history, Drake explores the tensions inherent in balancing an ideology dedicated to limiting the power of government with a commitment to protecting treasured landscapes and ecological health. Drake argues that "antistatist" beliefs--an individualist ethos and a mistrust of government--have colored the American passion for wilderness but also complicated environmental protection efforts. While most of the successes of the environmental movement have been enacted through the federal government, conservative and libertarian critiques of big-government environmentalism have increasingly resisted the idea that strengthening state power is the only way to protect the environment. Loving Nature, Fearing the State traces the influence of conservative environmental thought through the stories of important actors in postwar environmental movements. The book follows small-government pioneer Barry Goldwater as he tries to establish federally protected wilderness lands in the Arizona desert and shows how Goldwater's intellectual and ideological struggles with this effort provide a framework for understanding the dilemmas of an antistatist environmentalism. It links antigovernment activism with environmental public health concerns by analyzing opposition to government fluoridation campaigns and investigates environmentalism from a libertarian economic perspective through the work of free-market environmentalists. Drake also sees in the work of Edward Abbey an argument that reverence for nature can form the basis for resistance to state power. Each chapter highlights debates and tensions that are important to understanding environmental history and the challenges that face environmental protection efforts today.
Author |
: Charles PRITCHARD |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1868 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0021496945 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Analogies in the Progress of Nature and Grace. Four sermons preached before the University of Cambridge (being the Hulsean Lectures for 1867). To which are added two sermons preached before the British Association in 1867 and 1868 by : Charles PRITCHARD
Author |
: Sir Richard Davies HANSON |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 1865 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0018090732 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law in Nature, and other papers, read before the Adelaide Philosophical Society, etc by : Sir Richard Davies HANSON