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On the Christian Rulers

Sedulius Scotus
On the Christian Rulers
The Irish monk and scholar, Sedulius Scotus, lays out his vision of the moral and political obligations of the the ruler of a Christian nation. He draws his examples from the realm of both the biblical state of Judah, and also more recent issues of pious Roman Emperor in late antiquity. Sedulius lays out that argument that the monarch is obligated to maintained moral laws and guide his subjects towards some form of moral edification. Since he ...

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Johann Schoner's Globe of 1515

Duzer, Chet Van
Johann Schoner's Globe of 1515
The first detailed study of the terrestrial globe of Johann Schoner (1477-1547), a cosmographer and teacher of mathematics in Nurnberg, which he made as part of the first pair of celestial and terrestrial globes in 1515. The globe is not much younger than the earliest surviving terrestrial globe from 1492. The globe is an important part of early 16th-cent. cartography, and an important chapter in the cartographic history of the New World. Tran...

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Ground Sloth

Fields, Steven E
Ground Sloth
Megalonyx" is one of the most widely distributed taxa of ground sloths in North America. Numerous Pleistocene sites contain isolated fossil elements. However, most fossils are of late Rancholabrean age, and relatively few "Megalonyx" fossils have been found in the southeastern United States outside of Florida. This work is unique because it describes more than 250 fossil elements from a single site of Irvingtonian age in South Carolina. It als...

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Climate Crises in Human History

Mainwaring, A Bruce / Giegengack, Robert / Vita-Finzi, Claudio
Climate Crises in Human History
This volume considers the response of selected cultures to climate events that have been documented from the archaeological and geological records. It includes articles by participants in a 2008 conference at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as well as other prominent scholars. The essays, which range over the Americas, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Near East, and over several millennia, may serv...

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Darwin's Disciple

Schwartz, Joel S
Darwin's Disciple
This volume is a careful biographical study of the life and letters of George Romanes (1848-1894), who was a strong advocate for Darwinian evolution. "Because of his central role in defending Darwinian evolution and his close relationship with Darwin during the last decade of Darwin's life, Romanes's life and career deserve a fresh look." This publication by Joel Schwartz is the culmination of more than thirty-five years of work in the history...

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Biographical Memoirs of Members of the American Philosoph...

McDonald, Mary
Biographical Memoirs of Members of the American Philosophical Society (Aps)
The distinguished classicists and archaeologists featured in this volume were all members of the APS, the oldest learned soc. in N. Amer. Their biographical memoirs, selected from the archives of the Society, present a panorama of 20th-cent. discoveries and developments in the study of Antiquity and the personalities behind them. They include: Sir Arthur Evans, Werner Jaeger, Arthur Darby Nock, Lily Ross Taylor, Carl William Blegen, Gisela M. ...

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