eBooks „astronomy“
Es wurden 113 eBooks für den Suchbegriff „astronomy“ gefunden.
Byron J. Rees
The Heart-Cry Of Jesus
- Religion
- Englisch
- 18121 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
THE NEED OF THE DAY.
The saying, "Necessity is the mother of Invention," finds nowhere a more vivid illustration of its truth than in the publishing enterprises of the modern Holiness movement. The onward movement of the Holy Ghost along Pentecostal lines, convicting of depravity, creating a clean-reading public, and endueing with power both pulpit and pew, has resulted in a constant and growing demand for full-salvation literature. Tens of thousands of pulpits do an active business on both the wholesale and retail plan, with science and philosophy as stock in trade. Famishing congregations are proffered the bugs of biology, the rocks of geology, and the stars of astronomy until their souls revolt, and they demand bread and meat. [mehr]
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Joel Dorman Steele
Hygienic Physiology
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 117955 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
oel Dorman Steele (May 14, 1836 – May 25, 1886) was an American educator. He and his wife Esther were important textbook writers of their period, on subjects including American history, chemistry, human physiology, physics, astronomy, and zoology. In the preface to his posthumous Popular Physics, the publisher writes that his books "attained an extraordinary degree of popularity, due to the author's attractive style, his great skill in the selection of material suited to the demands of the schools for which the books were intended, his sympathetic spirit toward both teachers and pupils, and his earnest Christian character, which was exhibited in all his writing."
Born May 14, 1836, in Lima, New York, he became a country schoolteacher at the age of 17, leaving that position after an outbreak of typhoid fever killed his mother in 1851. He graduated from Genesee College (now part of Syracuse University) in 1858, and became a school principal in Oswego County in 1859. [mehr]
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BYRON J. REES
THE HEART-CRY OF JESUS
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 18054 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
The saying, "Necessity is the mother of Invention," finds nowhere a more vivid illustration of its truth than in the publishing enterprises of the modern Holiness movement. The onward movement of the Holy Ghost along Pentecostal lines, convicting of depravity, creating a clean-reading public, and endueing with power both pulpit and pew, has resulted in a constant and growing demand for full-salvation literature. Tens of thousands of pulpits do an active business on both the wholesale and retail plan, with science and philosophy as stock in trade. Famishing congregations are proffered the bugs of biology, the rocks of geology, and the stars of astronomy until their souls revolt, and they demand bread and meat. [mehr]
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A. H. Sayce
The Hittites
The story of a Forgotten Empire
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 38435 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Archibald Sayce was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent. A delicate child who suffered from tuberculosis and got a late start, he soon caught up with a private tutor and was reading Homer in Greek at ten. He attended The Queen's College, Oxford, becoming a fellow in 1869.
In 1874 Sayce published a long paper, "The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians" in Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology vol. 3, part 1), with transcriptions and translations of the relevant cuneiform texts, that was one of the first articles to recognise and translate astronomical cuneiform texts.
In 1879 Rev. Sayce linked the reliefs near Magnesia on the Maeander in western Anatolia to those of the site at Yazilikaya in the Turkish plateau, and recognised that they belonged to an unidentified pre-Greek culture. [mehr]
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Archibald Henry Sayce
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 166811 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 1845 – 4 February 1933), was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919.
Archibald Sayce was born in Shirehampton, Bristol, to a family of Shropshire descent. A delicate child who suffered from tuberculosis and got a late start, he soon caught up with a private tutor and was readingHomer in Greek at ten. He attended The Queen's College, Oxford, becoming a fellow in 1869.
In 1874 Sayce published a long paper, "The Astronomy and Astrology of the Babylonians" in Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology vol. 3, part 1), with transcriptions and translations of the relevantcuneiform texts, that was one of the first articles to recognise and translate astronomical cuneiform texts. [mehr]
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Allen Chapman
Fred Fenton On The Track
- Comics und Graphic Novels
- Englisch
- 42958 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Allan Chapman FRAS (born 30 May 1946) is a British historian of science.
Allan Chapman was born in Swinton, Lancashire, England and grew up in the Pendlebury and Clifton districts of the then Swinton and Pendlebury borough. Having attended the local Cromwell Road Secondary Modern School for Boys (now The Swinton Academy), Sefton Road, Pendlebury (1957–1962), he then gained his first degree from the University of Lancaster. Subsequently he undertook a history of science DPhil at Wadham College, Oxford. He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy and scientific biography.
Chapman has been based at Oxford University for most of his career, as a member of the Faculty of History, based at Wadham College.[1] He is an accomplished lecturer and public speaker (including as visiting professor at Gresham College in London). In January 1994, he delivered the Royal Society history of science Wilkins Lecture, on the subject of Edmund Halley.
He is also a television presenter, notably Gods in the Sky,[2] covering astronomical religion in early civilisations, and Great Scientists,[3] presenting the lives of five of the greatest thinkers. Not averse to other forms of television, he also participated in the TV quiz University Challenge – The Professionals as part of the Royal Astronomical Society team, broadcast in June–July 2006.
Chapman teaches for the study abroad programme of Eurospring for Minnesota State University, Moorhead, Minnesota, USA and Bemidji State University, Bemidji, Minnesota, USA.
He has written many books including biographies such as England's Leonardo on Robert Hooke.[4] [mehr]
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MARCUS DODS
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE BOOK OF GENESIS
- Fantasy
- Englisch
- 136246 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
If any one is in search of accurate information regarding the age of
this earth, or its relation to the sun, moon, and stars, or regarding
the order in which plants and animals have appeared upon it, he is
referred to recent text-books in astronomy, geology, and palæontology.
No one for a moment dreams of referring a serious student of these
subjects to the Bible as a source of information. It is not the object
of the writers of Scripture to impart physical instruction or to enlarge
the bounds of scientific knowledge. But if any one wishes to know what
connection the world has with God, if he seeks to trace back all that
now is to the very fountain-head of life, if he desires to discover some
unifying principle, some illuminating purpose in the history of this
earth, then we confidently refer him to these and the subsequent
chapters of Scripture as his safest, and indeed his only, guide to the
information he seeks. Every writing must be judged by the object the
writer has in view. If the object of the writer of these chapters was to
convey physical information, then certainly it is imperfectly fulfilled.
But if his object was to give an intelligible account of God's relation
to the world and to man, then it must be owned that he has been
successful in the highest degree. [mehr]
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Shunned House
- Belletristik
- Englisch
- 10825 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (/ˈlʌvkræft, -ˌkrɑːft/;[1] August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937)—known as H. P. Lovecraft—was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. His father was confined to a mental institution when Lovecraft was three years old. His grandfather, a wealthy businessman, enjoyed storytelling and was an early influence. Intellectually precocious but sensitive, Lovecraft began composing rudimentary horror tales by the age of eight, but suffered from overwhelming feelings of anxiety. He encountered problems with classmates in school, and was kept at home by his highly strung and overbearing mother for illnesses that may have been psychosomatic. In high school, Lovecraft was able to better connect with his peers and form friendships. He also involved neighborhood children in elaborate make-believe projects, only regretfully ceasing the activity at seventeen years old. Despite leaving school in 1908 without graduating—he found mathematics particularly difficult—Lovecraft had developed a formidable knowledge of his favored subjects, such as history, linguistics, chemistry, and astronomy. [mehr]
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Charles Kingsley
The Heroes (fiscle part- 9 )
- Liebe
- Englisch
- 49592 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Some Of You Have Heard Already Of The Old Greeks; And All Of You,
As You Grow Up, Will Hear More And More Of Them. Those Of You Who
Are Boys Will, Perhaps, Spend A Great Deal Of Time In reading greek
Books; And The Girls, Though They May Not Learn Greek, Will Be Sure
To Come Across A Great Many Stories Taken From Greek History, And
To See, I May Say Every Day, Things Which We Should Not Have Had If
It Had Not Been For These Old Greeks. You Can Hardly Find A Well-
Written Book Which Has Not In it Greek Names, And Words, And
Proverbs; You Cannot Walk Through A Great Town Without Passing
Greek Buildings; You Cannot Go Into A Well-Furnished room Without
Seeing greek Statues And Ornaments, Even Greek Patterns Of
Furniture And Paper; So Strangely Have These Old Greeks Left Their
Mark Behind Them Upon This Modern World In which We Now Live. And
As You Grow Up, And Read More And More, You Will Find That We Owe
To These Old Greeks The Beginners Of All Our Mathematics And
Geometry--That Is, The Science And Knowledge Of Numbers, And Of The
Shapes Of Things, And Of The Forces Which Make Things Move And
Stand At Rest; And The Beginnings Of Our Geography And Astronomy;
And Of Our Laws, And Freedom, And Politics--That Is, The Science Of
How To Rule A Country, And Make It Peaceful And Strong. And We Owe
To Them, Too, The Beginning of Our Logic--That Is, The Study Of
Words And Of Reasoning; And Of Our Metaphysics--That Is, The Study
Of Our Own Thoughts And Souls. [mehr]
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Catherine Cate Coblentz
THE BLUE CAT OF CASTLE TOWN
- Kurzgeschichte
- Englisch
- 25765 Wörter
- Ab 18 Jahren
- 2
Catherine Cate Coblentz (June 5, 1897 – May 30, 1951) was an American writer, best known for her children's books in the 1930s and 1940s.Originally from Hardwick, Vermont,[clarification needed] Catherine Cate worked during World War I at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., where she met her future husband, William Coblentz, an American scientist who was a pioneer in the field of infrared spectroscopy. They were married on June 10, 1924. Two daughters were born to the couple, but both died young.[1]
Coblentz published a poem on Mars in Popular Astronomy magazine in 1924, the same year that her husband was measuring the temperature of Mars at the Lowell Observatory.[2] Mrs. Coblentz later achieved success as a writer of children's books, and her The Blue Cat of Castle Town won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958 and was a Newbery Honor book.[3][4] Older copies of this work and some of her other books can still be found, and some are considered to be collector's items.
In 1930 Coblentz received a B.A. degree from George Washington University. In honor of her later work, she was presented with a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award by her alma mater in 1945.
In the mid-to-late 1940s, Coblentz was instrumental in raising money to buy the land on which the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library was built on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C. A set of windows, with illustrations based on her books, remain on display in the library.
Catherine Cate Coblentz, her husband, and an infant daughter are buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. (Section O). [mehr]
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