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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1743 edition. Excerpt: ... S E C T. ii. Of all Dr Boerhaave'j Writings beside Ms Orations and Thesis. an Y account of the larger works of so justly celebrated a physician may be thought needless on the presumption, that scarce one of the faculty is unacquainted with them. But, as it has been found, that some among us have been pleased to censure our author, who either have not perused his genuine writings, or not with sufficient attention, it may injustice be expected, that we endeavour to point out the peculiar excellencies of his several works, and so distinguish the supposititious which disgrace his name, that they may no longer be obtruded for genuine. From The stile of bis Institutes and Aphorisms is so laconic, that nearly a like attention is necessary for the thorough understanding of those books, as is usually given to treatises of mixt mathematics, and a panegyric, instead of a vindication, will be deemed most meet after due consideration. f Of which he highly complains in the preface to his Chemistry. From the preceeding section, and account of his life, it partly appears how well he was qualified for teaching no less than practising physic; possest of the endowments and advantages above mentioned, he soon converted them to the service of the public. Whilst patients experienced the benefit of his surprizing sagacity, his incomparable collection of the most certain doctrines in medicine was communicated not only to his pupils, but to the world. For the first edition of his Institutions Medica appeared in 1707, two years before he was created a professor, about six years after he began to officiate as lecturer, p. 31. This A Science notwithstanding the representation lately made fp. 93,&V.) of its facility, to be ranked deservedly among the most...

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T130387 Half-title: 'An account of the life of Dr H. Boerhaave.'. Text continuous despite pagination. London: printed for Henry Lintot, 1746. [4],2, vii, [3],184, [1],188-226p., plate: port.; 8°

Joseph Haydn's symphonies and string quartets are staples of the concert repertory, yet many aspects of this founding genius of the Viennese Classical style are only beginning to be explored. From local Kapellmeister to international icon, Haydn achieved success by developing a musical language aimed at both the connoisseurs and amateurs of the emerging musical public. In this volume, the first collection of essays in English devoted to this composer, a group of leading musicologists examines Haydn's works in relation to the aesthetic and cultural crosscurrents of his time. Haydn and His World opens with an examination of the contexts of the composer's late oratorios: James Webster connects the Creation with the sublime--the eighteenth-century term for artistic experience of overwhelming power--and Leon Botstein explores the reception of Haydn's Seasons in terms of the changing views of programmatic music in the nineteenth century. Essays on Haydn's instrumental music include Mary Hunter on London chamber music as models of private and public performance, fortepianist Tom Beghin on rhetorical aspects of the Piano Sonata in D Major, XVI:42, Mark Evan Bonds on the real meaning behind contemporary comparisons of symphonies to the Pindaric ode, and Elaine R. Sisman on Haydn's Shakespeare, Haydn as Shakespeare, and "originality." Finally, Rebecca Green draws on primary sources to place one of Haydn's Goldoni operas at the center of the Eszterháza operatic culture of the 1770s. The book also includes two extensive late-eighteenth-century discussions, translated into English for the first time, of music and musicians in Haydn's milieu, as well as a fascinating reconstruction of the contents of Haydn's library, which shows him fully conversant with the intellectual and artistic trends of the era.