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Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and Literature written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and Literature written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 1184 pages
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Download or read book The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 917 pages
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Download or read book The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders & Curiosities of Nature & Art, Science & Literature ... written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 917 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 986 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Natural and Artificial Wonders and Curiosities written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
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Total Pages : 958 pages
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Download or read book The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science, and Literature written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Platts
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021798817
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Library of Wonders and Curiosities Found in Nature and Art, Science and Literature written by John Platts and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Library of Wonders and Curiosities Found in Nature and Art Science and Literature is a collection of fascinating stories, facts, and anecdotes from across the scientific and cultural landscape. It covers everything from natural wonders and curious human feats to strange stories and folklore. This is a great book for anyone looking to expand their knowledge and their imagination. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frank Gonzalez-Crussi
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262365685
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Body Fantastic written by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality. In The Body Fantastic, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an "amphibian man" who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an "animal within an animal." If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized "digestive excess" began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the "libido-podalic association," connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.
Author : John 1775-1837 Platts
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019755754
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Library of Wonders and Curiosities Found in Nature and Art, Science and Literature written by John 1775-1837 Platts and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Library of Wonders and Curiosities Found in Nature and Art Science and Literature is a collection of fascinating stories, facts, and anecdotes from across the scientific and cultural landscape. It covers everything from natural wonders and curious human feats to strange stories and folklore. This is a great book for anyone looking to expand their knowledge and their imagination. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Rachel E. Walker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226822567
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beauty and the Brain written by Rachel E. Walker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America. Between the 1770s and the 1860s, people all across the globe relied on physiognomy and phrenology to evaluate human worth. These once-popular but now discredited disciplines were based on a deceptively simple premise: that facial features or skull shape could reveal a person’s intelligence, character, and personality. In the United States, these were culturally ubiquitous sciences that both elite thinkers and ordinary people used to understand human nature. While the modern world dismisses phrenology and physiognomy as silly and debunked disciplines, Beauty and the Brain shows why they must be taken seriously: they were the intellectual tools that a diverse group of Americans used to debate questions of race, gender, and social justice. While prominent intellectuals and political thinkers invoked these sciences to justify hierarchy, marginalized people and progressive activists deployed them for their own political aims, creatively interpreting human minds and bodies as they fought for racial justice and gender equality. Ultimately, though, physiognomy and phrenology were as dangerous as they were popular. In addition to validating the idea that external beauty was a sign of internal worth, these disciplines often appealed to the very people who were damaged by their prejudicial doctrines. In taking physiognomy and phrenology seriously, Beauty and the Brain recovers a vibrant—if largely forgotten—cultural and intellectual universe, showing how popular sciences shaped some of the greatest political debates of the American past.
