Emblems Of Mind

Author : Edward Rothstein
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emblems of Mind written by Edward Rothstein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Kepler and the music of the spheres to Einstein and his violin, wherever we turn music and mathematics seem to bear a strong relationship. Through exploring music and math from the Greeks to the present, the chief music critic for The New York Times seeks to unravel this intriguing mystery.

Author : Robert Tyas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Flowers, Or, Floral Emblems of Thoughts, Feelings, and Sentiments written by Robert Tyas and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670467X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Both from the Ears and Mind written by Linda Phyllis Austern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music’s conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.

Author : Edward Rothstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195144619
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visions of Utopia written by Edward Rothstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of utopian thinking, covering the reasons for their failures and how they are still being pursued.

Author : a Sunday School Teacher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripture Emblems Taught in the Household written by a Sunday School Teacher and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Spilling
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripture emblems taught in the household, by a Sunday-school teacher [J. Spilling]. written by James Spilling and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Merton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Emblems of a Season of Fury written by Thomas Merton and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Jager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226391168
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Heart written by Eric Jager and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's increasingly electronic world, we say our personality traits are "hard-wired" and we "replay" our memories. But we use a different metaphor when we speak of someone "reading" another's mind or a desire to "turn over a new leaf"—these phrases refer to the "book of the self," an idea that dates from the beginnings of Western culture. Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the modern day. He focuses especially on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a "book of the heart" modeled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art. For instance, medieval saints' legends tell of martyrs whose hearts recorded divine inscriptions; lyrics and romances feature lovers whose hearts are inscribed with their passion; paintings depict hearts as books; and medieval scribes even produced manuscript codices shaped like hearts. "The Book of the Heart provides a fresh perspective on the influence of the book as artifact on our language and culture. Reading this book broadens our appreciation of the relationship between things and ideas."—Henry Petroski, author of The Book on the Bookshelf

Author : Donald Palumbo
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eros in the Mind's Eye written by Donald Palumbo and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-07-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of the erotic and the fantastic in painting, illustration, and frilm. It covers Western art of six centuries--from medieval woodcuts to contemporary poster art--and the cinema of six decades--from horror classics of the 1930s to recent slasher films--documenting the surprising variety of guises in which sexuality appears in fantasy art and cinema. Among the subjects treated are occult eroticism in Medieval and Renaissance art; the use of fantasy as a vehicle for depicting erotic subjects in periods of sexual repression; the fascination with unconscious and aberrant sexuality in the visual arts since the publication of Freud's theories; movie monsters and aliens as emblems of the submerged id or libido; and monstrous metamorphosis as a symbol of the changes accompanying puberty.

Author : John Hamilton Thom
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Laws of Life After the Mind of Christ written by John Hamilton Thom and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: