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Libri di Mary Somerville su Unilibro.it
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2022 |
 
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Il ruggito della montagna. Ediz. limitataAuthor: Somerville Mary Publisher: Langella Edizione numerata di soli 180 esemplari stampati su carta d'Amalfi in cofanetto artigianale contenente 3 foto applicate su cartoncino. Centocinquanta anni fa, nell'aprile 1872, il Vesuvio, la 'montagna' per antonomasia a Napoli, emise boati terrificanti, simili a ruggiti, seguiti da una spettacolare, nonché violenta, eruzione. Il 29 novembre dello stesso anno, sempre a Napoli, morì, poco prima di compiere 92 anni, una testimone d'eccezione di questo evento, la scienziata scozzese Mary Somerville, definita Queen of Nineteenth Century Science. La narrazione di quell'evento, assieme a quella dell'altrettanto spettacolare eruzione del 1868, fu poi raccolta dalla figlia Martha nel volume di memorie pubblicato postumo nel 1873. Le due descrizioni, tradotte per la prima volta in italiano in questo volumetto, confermano la instancabile curiosità, l'acuto spirito di osservazione e la vivacità dell'intelligenza di questa grande donna, per la quale non a caso nel 1834 lo storico e filosofo britannico William Whewell, al fine di sottolinearne i molteplici interessi, coniò il termine scientist. Con uno scritto di Mena Bianco e fotografie di Sergio Siano € 25,00
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1913 |
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Bound Fast With LettersAuthor: Rouse Richard H., Rouse Mary A., Somerville Robert (FRW) Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr Bound Fast with Letters brings together in one volume many of the significant contributions that Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse have made over the past forty years to the study of medieval manuscripts through the prism of textual transmission and manuscript production. The eighteen essays collected here address medieval authors, craftsmen, book producers, and patrons of manuscripts from different epochs in the Middle Ages, extending from late antiquity to the early Renaissance, and ranging from North Africa to northern England. Their investigations reveal valuable information about the history of texts and their transmission, and their careful scrutiny of texts and of the physical manuscripts that convey them illuminate the societies that created, read, and preserved these objects. The book begins in Part I with articles on writers from the patristic era through the twelfth century who experimented with, and mastered, various physical forms of presenting ideas in writing. Part II contains essays on patronage and patrons, including Richard de Fournival, Jean de Brienne, Watriquet de Couvin, Pope Clement V, the Counts of Saint-Pol, and Christine de Pizan. Part III, on manuscript producers, discusses the questions, for whom? and by whom? were manuscripts made. The four essays in this section each reflect on a different part of the process of book-making. Throughout, Bound Fast with Letters focuses on the close ties between the physical remains of literate culture—from the wax tablets of the patristic era to the vernacular literature of the wealthy laity of the late Middle Ages—and their social and economic context. 'The common denominator shared by all of these essays is the human dimension, constituting in some ways a people-oriented history of the book and the book trade. The collection emphasizes the experimental nature of book production, the communities of artisans of the book, and the practicalities of life in them, the movement of scribes and artists, and the expectations of patrons. All of the articles place manuscript production in historical, social, and cultural contexts.' —Keith Busby, University of Wisconsin, Madison € 79,70
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