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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

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A sweeping account of humanity's evolving vision of theuniverse, as viewed through the writings of the most exceptionalthinkers in history.

In this monumental book, Professor Dennis Danielson has assembled a remarkable anthology that surveys the richness and excitement of the human quest to understand the universe-its origin, its structure, and its significance. From the ancient world to the latest theories of cosmic physics, The Book of the Cosmos presents the art as well as the science of human attempts to describe the universe, not only in colorful scientific prose but also in engaging excerpts from poetry and philosophy, diaries and dialogues, essays and epistles, from writers as diverse as Aristotle, Copernicus, Cicero, Albert Einstein, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Here, as never before in a single volume, we taste firsthand the exhilaration, flair, and occasional bewilderment of a hundred authors from across written history who shaped, and continue to shape, our view of the cosmos.Amazon.com Review
So many books published these days seem to deliberately ignorethe forest for the trees, or the leaves, or the chloroplasts, or thechemistry of biopigments. Readers interested in big questions usuallyhave to make do with the obligatory summing-up at the end, in whichthe author tries to justify his or her narrow interest through heroicfeats of recontextualization. The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining theUniverse from Heraclitus to Hawking, on the other hand, is 600pages of well-expressed deep thought on the biggest picture of themall. In roughly chronological order, editor Dennis Danielson presents85 sets of excerpts from big thinkers from biblical times to thepresent, introducing each to the modern reader with insightful runningcommentary that is consistently helpful without being obtrusive.

The ancient Greeks hit the ground running, leaving us a richconceptual legacy, which we are still exploring and exploiting even asour own work becomes more and more machine-mediated. Danielson givesus a wide base of ancient thought to give a sense of our heritage. Heincludes both obvious choices, such as Plato, and lesser-knownwriters, such as Parmenides. The often neglected Middle Ages broughtus Ptolemy, Moses Maimonides, and others who set the stage for theRenaissance and the Enlightenment, and the writings from these timesbetray an unexpected continuity of thought between the ancient andmodern eras. Of course, the late-20th-century selections of suchwriters as Freeman Dyson and Steven Weinberg, which close the book,shouldn't imply an end to cosmological thinking. If anything, the lastchapters of The Book of the Cosmos provoke a hunger formore. --Rob Lightner ... Read more

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not what it seems to be
I picked this book out of the astronomy section at the local library because I wanted to learn more about the history of cosmology and because a quick glance gave me the impression that it was an anthology of original writings by scientists about what they observed and what conclusions they drew from it.

When I got home, I discovered from the introduction that the anthology was compiled by an English Literature professor. Bad sign - if you actually want to learn about science.

If you want to read a vast collection of speculations about the nature of the universe informed by very little observation and deduction, this is a great book. You get to find out what everybody from Heraclitus to Cotton Mather (sorry, but this was the point where I dropped the book with a dull thud) thought or felt about the cosmos. Oh, every once in a while he drops in a few pages from an actual astronomer, but even there he tries to make the science easy and palatable by leaving the mathematics out. (Only 15 pages out of 528 for Copernicus, and nearly one-third of them are filled up by his dedicatory letter to to Pope Paul III!)

Possibly it gets better as he moves into modern times, but I'll never find out because I've lost patience with winnowing such a great quanty of chaff for such a tiny proportion of wheat. This book goes back to the library with a suggestion that it should be be filed under literature, not science. I'm glad I didn't waste my money on it.

I'm sorry...
Awesome looking book, but the seller (Amazon.com) sent me a damaged book. I'm pretty disappointed. It had a huge, heavy crease through the entire book. Like several hundred pages of a diagonal, embossed crease. It's as if someone took the entire book, put half of it in an iron clamp, and pulled on the other end.

Overpriced, too little analysis
Ever put on your favourite TV show only to find out they made a "clip" episode just full of all the old moments so the episode itself has nothing too new to say? The collection of exerpts are interesting but hardly make it a book.

Incredible scope
The depth and breadth of selections makes this book a treasure. It features a wide diversity of pieces, ancient and modern, secular and religious, from many disciplines. What comes through in all the selection is the human drive to pursue ultimate questions and attempt to find ultimate explanations. It pulls together many writers I studied in fragmentary fashion in my philosophy, theology, and science classes. I highly recommend it as a masterful collection of writings.

Excellent book
Dr. Danielson was actually my professor for first year Honors English here at UBC. He was an absolutly incredible prof, and his love for the cosmos really comes through in this book. ... Read more

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Chapters: 530 Bc Births, 534 Bc Births, 535 Bc Births, Heraclitus, Rāhula, Aristides, Onomacritus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Heraclitus of Ephesus (Ancient Greek: ; c. 535c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. He was of distinguished parentage. Little is known about his early life and education, but he regarded himself as self-taught and a pioneer of wisdom. From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called "The Obscure," and the "Weeping Philosopher." Heraclitus is famous for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, as stated in his famous saying, "You cannot step twice into the same river." He believed in the unity of opposites, stating that "the path up and down is one and the same," existing things being characterized by pairs of contrary properties, and other explorations of the concept of dualism. His cryptic utterance that "all things come to be in accordance with this Logos," (literally, "word," "reason," or "account") has been the subject of numerous interpretations. The main source for the life of Heraclitus is Diogenes Laërtius, although some have questioned the validity of his account as "a tissue of Hellenistic anecdotes, most of them obviously fabricated on the basis of statements in the preserved fragments." Diogenes said that Heraclitus flourished in the 69th Olympiad, 504-501 BCE. All the rest of the evidence the people Heraclitus is said to have known, or the people who were familiar with his work confirms the floruit. His dates of birth and death are based on a life span of 60 years, the age at which Diogenes says he died, with the flo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13792 ... Read more

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An early epigram reported by Scythinus of Teos goes: "Do not be in a hurry to unwind to the centre-stick the roll of Heraclitus the Ephesian; the path is hard indeed to traverse. There is gloom and unrelieved darkness; but if an initiate lead you, it shines more brightly than the shining sun." ... Read more

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Chapters: Ancient Colophonians, Ancient Ephesians, People From Pergamon, People From Izmir, Galen, Heraclitus, Çevik Bir, Kayahan, Giorgos Seferis, Hipponax, Mimnermus, Antimachus, Musaeus, Attalus I, Menander of Ephesus, Halit Refiğ, Xenophanes, Alpay Özalan, Semih Şentürk, John Barker, Édouard Balladur, Nazan Öncel, Mustafa Denizli, Ezgi Asaroğlu, Alev Alatlı, Burcu Güneş, Henri Langlois, Attilâ Ilhan, Necati Ateş, Soranus of Ephesus, Mar Eshai Shimun Xxiii, Ayhan Işık, Haluk Bilginer, Artemidorus, Rufus of Ephesus, Ekrem Akurgal, Zafer Ilken, Ufuk Ceylan, Hüseyin Beşok, List of People From Izmir, Rıdvan Şimşek, Semra Ülkü, Sabri Kalic, Balık Sisters, Hüsamettin Cindoruk, Hüsnü Özyeğin, Necati Cumalı, Işık Koşaner, Meltem Cumbul, Nicander, Apollonius of Ephesus, Cratippus of Pergamon, Ahmet Piriştina, Gülşah Kocatürk, Bilge Umar, Kim Capli, Alexander Lychnus, Antipas of Pergamum, Zenodotus, Çolpan Ilhan, Epigonus, Yavuz Tatış, Yıldız Tilbe, Attalus Iii, Attalus Ii Philadelphus, John Eren, Callinus, Mahmut Özgener, Özlem Özçelik, Çağla Kubat, Sosipatra, Agasias, Son of Dositheus, Parrhasius, Hasan Bülent Paksoy, Safa Giray, Publius Hordeonius Lollianus, Aziz Kocaoğlu, Melis Sezer, Tuna Üzümcü, Moshe Sardines, Bahar Çağlar, Birsel Vardarlı, Selâhattin Kantar, Şükrü Sina Gürel, Turgut Berkes, Mehmet Eroğlu, Tufan Ersöz, Güldeniz Önal, Demet Akbağ, Ertuğrul Özkök, Begüm Kütük, Archeanassa, Menecrates of Ephesus, Nehir Erdoğan, Çağan Irmak, Şenay Gürler, Cemal Nalga, Nilay Benli, Mehmet Erte, Nez, Aslı Güngör, Xenophon of Ephesus, Gül Gölge, Dinon, Aylin Yıldızoğlu, Avni Arbaş, Carystius, Mithridates I of the Bosporus, Apollodorus of Pergamon, Erdal Saygın, Murat Ilkan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 342. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (September ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12326 ... Read more

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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.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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Huntington Library

T111102

Attributed to Thomas Flatman.

London : printed for Benj. Tooke, 1713. 2v. ; 12° ... Read more