<p>This second volume of the Trukese-English Dictionary supplements the first one, published in 1980. It provides an English-Trukese index, or finderlist, for the Trukese-English of the first volume an a concordance of roots, including what appear to be complex words that cannot be analyzed into constiuent elements.</p>

Trukese-English Dictionary, Supplementary Volume: English-Trukese and Index of Trukese Word Roots, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 141S) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Literature & Fiction

Goodenough, Ward H.

SUGITA, HIROSHI

United States

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<p>JEFFERSON, THOMAS: THOMAS JEFFERSON'S GARDEN BOOK 1766-1824. WITH RELEVANT EXTRACTS FROM HIS OTHER WRITINGS. ANNOTATED BY E.M. BETTS [1944, REPRINT] [HARDBACK] . PHILADELPHIA, PA, 1981, xv 704 p. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.</p>

Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766-1824: With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 22) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Jefferson, Thomas

Historical

Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 40) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

History

Westermann, W L

Ancient Civilizations

What we know about Greek astronomy is dominated by Ptolemy s Almagest (written c. 140 A.D.) & closely related works like Theon s Handy Tables (end of 4th C.) but we have only very little info. about the practice of computing the positions of sun, moon, & planets during any period of antiquity. Now, the Greek horoscopes are available for study as a group which could be expected to reflect the current techniques of Greek astronomy. About 60 horoscopes from the first 5 centuries of our era have been published since Young (1828) & Champollion-Figeac (1840) in the papyrological literature, which comprises 18,000 texts. This vol. includes all horoscopes from this widely scattered material & a few unpublished pieces. Illustrations.

Greek Horoscopes: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 48) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Neugebauer, Otto

Hoesen, H. B. Van

Philosophy

The volume is Robert Cushman Murphy's "celebration of the magnificent environment and history of Long Island that ispired him; a chronicle of mankind's destructive tendencies as they found focus on this sandy strand; and a gentle warning to change our ways."

Fish-Shape Paumanok: Nature and Man on Long Island, Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society,Volume 58

MURPHY, Robert Cushman

Australia & Oceania

These tables for A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649 are an extension, with some improvements, of earlier ones for 601 B.C. to A.D. 1. As before, they give the geocentric positions (tropic celestial longitudes & latitudes, i.e. with respect to the mean equinox of date), in units of 0 degrees.01 for the Sun & planets, & 0 degrees.1 for the Moon, at 16h Universal Time - 4 P.M. Greenwich Civil Time - 7 P.M. local mean time of 45 degrees East longitude (Babylon), on the indicated dates, all in the Julian calendar, hence for Julian dates 5n + 1/6 for the Moon, Mercury, & Venus, & 1-n + 1/6 for the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn. The same adaptation of the theories of Leverrier, Gaillot, & Hansen, with modified elements by Schoch, was used as before, except as noted below. The chief change has been to improve the positions of Jupiter & Saturn. Tables.

Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649, at Five-Day and Ten-Day Intervals: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 59) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Tuckerman, Bryant

The Am. Philosophical Soc. (APS) Jayne Lectures for 1968. Sir Peter Medawar, eminent biologist of the British National Institute for Medical Research, states: ''These lectures began in my mind in the form of a question: why are most scientists completely indifferent to--even contemptuous of--scientific methodology?...the answer could only be 'because what passes for scientific methodology is a misrepresentation of what scientists do or ought to do.' I therefore thought it important to explain what is wrong with the traditional methodology of 'inductive' reasoning...& to show that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with the names of Whewell & Peirce & Popper can give the scientist a certain limited but useful insight into the way he thinks.'' In this alternative scheme, the energizing force of scientific enquiry comes from an imaginative preconception of what might be true--a preconception which is at once exposed to critical analysis, to find out whether or not the imagined world corresponds with the real one. Scientific enquiry is thus essentially a dialogue between imaginative insight & critical appraisal; between the possible & the actual; between what could be true & what is in fact the case.

Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 75) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Medawar, Peter Brian

The first installment: provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or mathematics & mathematical astronomy, & samhita or divination. The related fields to which attention is paid in this study are cosmology & geography (largely of the Jainas) & those aspects of dharmasastra that involve the determination of the proper times for the performance of ritual acts. This vol. contains in their initial form the list of abbrev. of journals & series, the biblio., the list of mss. catalogues, & the articles concerning authors whose names begin with a, i, u, r, l, e ai, o, & au.

Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A, Vol. 1

Reference

Pingree, David

Catalogs & Directories

The three Woolsey Sisters, Abby, Jane, & Georgeanna, were pioneers in the development of nursing service & education after the Civil War. In her research, author Anne L. Austin discovered that nursing was but one of the fields of social welfare in which these remarkable women were leaders. Because the private lives of such pioneers have an important relation to their public activities, Austin felt that the story would best be told in the family setting. Generations of the Woolsey family & its collateral branches were notable in the U.S. beginning in the 17th century. This narrative is concerned primarily with Abby, Jane, & Georgeanna, three of the eight children of Charles William & Jane Eliza (Newton) Woolsey, who lived in N.Y. before, during, & after the Civil War. Throughout the war, under the auspices of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, these three women did important work for the Union on behalf of the wounded. Later, in civil life, they became leaders in promoting programs of social welfare, nursing education, & hospital nursing service, & one of them was a pioneer in the education of Negroes. Illus.

Woolsey Sisters of New York: A Family’s Involvement in the Civil War and a New Profession (1860-1900), Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 85) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Austin, Anne L

Americas

Reprinted in 1994. This vol. presents tables giving the dates of all new & full moons during an historical era when these data were of considerable interest & importance. To make them more useful the longitudes of the moon at each of these times is also given, as is a consecutive enumeration of the conjunctions & a similar one of the oppositions. All dates are reckoned in the Julian calendar & all times are given in hours & the nearest minute. These dates & times are calculated for an observer in Babylon, or equivalently Baghdad, since this location is fairly centrally located for the historians of the period, exactly 3 hours west of Greenwich. Moreover, the time used is civil time & is based on a 24-hour clock with its origin at midnight; thus noon is 12 hours. Since this vol. may be considered as a supplement to Bryant Tuckerman's tables, all fundamental astronomical elements have been taken from them.

New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 94) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Goldstine, Herman H.

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