Browsing by Subject "History of science"
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Cardano (Chamber Opera for Three Singers, Actor, and Ensemble) and Combination-Tone Class Sets and Redefining the Role of les Couleurs in Claude Vivier's "Bouchara"
(2015)This dissertation consists of two parts: a chamber opera and an article on the work of Claude Vivier."Cardano" is a new chamber opera by composer Bryan Christian about the work and tragic life of the Renaissance polymath ... -
Democritus and the Critical Tradition
(2013)Modern scholars cannot agree how extant fragments of thought attributed to Leucippus and Democritus integrate (or do not) to form a coherent perspective on the ancient Greek world. While a certain degree of uncertainty ... -
No "Idle Fancy:" The Imagination's Work in Poetry and Natural Philosophy from Sidney to Sprat
(2015)When debating the structure of the cosmos, Raphael delivers to Adam perhaps Milton's most famous line: "be lowly wise." With the promise to "justify the ways of God to men," Milton does not limit man's knowledge to base ... -
The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
(2015)Historically, the wind has functioned in multiple capacities, both physically and symbolically. The following study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed ...
