The Idea of Universal History Greece
Author | : J. Miguel Alonso-Núñez |
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Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : J. Miguel Alonso-Núñez |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
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Author | : J.M. Alonso-Núnez |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2021-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004494219 |
This is an expanded version of a lecture given in the Departments of History and Classics at Harvard in 1998. Starting from a methodological point of view, this book show the evolution of the idea of world history through the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Ctesias, Ephorus, Polybius and others up to the historians of the Augustan epoch.
Author | : J. M. Alonso-Nunez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9789050630986 |
Author | : Amélie Rorty |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2009-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521874637 |
The essays in this volume discuss the questions at the core of Kant's pioneering work in the philosophy of history.
Author | : Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 1835 |
Genre | : World history |
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Author | : Leopold von Ranke |
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Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : José Miguel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : George Park Fisher |
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Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : World history |
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Author | : George Park Fisher |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 884 |
Release | : 2019-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
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By George Park Fisher is a comprehensive exploration of world history. Fisher meticulously charts the course of human civilization, from ancient times to his contemporary period. The book is designed not only for students but also for general readers keen on understanding the broader strokes of global history. Fisher's detailed approach and clear writing make this a valuable resource for anyone interested in the annals of our past.
Author | : Evaggelos G. Vallianatos |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 162734358X |
In Antikythera Mechanism: The Story Behind the Genius of the Greek Computer and Its Demise, Evaggelos Vallianatos, historian and ecopolitical theorist, shows that after the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BCE, the Greeks, especially in Egypt, reached unprecedented heights of achievements in science, technology, and civilization. The Antikythera Mechanism, an astronomical computer probably crafted in Rhodes in the second century BCE, was proof of that prowess. It’s the grandfather of our computers. Greek sponge divers discovered the Antikythera Mechanism in 1900 on a 2,100-year-old Roman-era shipwreck. The hand-powered device reveals a sophisticated Greek technology previously unknown to scholars and historians, not seen and understood again until the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book not only describes how the sophisticated political and technological infrastructure of the Greeks after Alexander the Great resulted in the Antikythera celestial computer, and the bedrock of science and technology we know today, but also how the influence of Christianity on Greek civilization destroyed the nascent computer age of ancient Greece. Vallianatos, born in Greece and educated in America, is a historian, author, and journalist. He is a passionate champion of Greek culture and a well-suited guide to this historical account. Vallianatos explains how and why Greek scientists employed advanced engineering in translating the beautiful conception of the Antikythera Mechanism into an astronomical computer of genius: a bronze-geared device of mathematical astronomy, predicting the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon; calculating the risings and settings of important stars and constellations, and the movements of the planets around the Sun; while mechanizing the predictions of scientific theories. The computer’s accurate calendar connected these cosmic phenomena to the Olympics and other major Panhellenic religious and athletic celebrations, bringing the Greeks closer to their gods, traditions, and the Cosmos.