Hortus Curious Book

Hortus Curious

  • Author : Michael Perry
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • File Size : 5,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2022-10-04
  • Genre: Gardening
  • Pages : 333
  • ISBN 10 : 9780744078374
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Celebrate the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of plants with an ebook that revels in the diversity of the botanical world. Plants are truly awe-inspiring. They can be vast, minute, smelly, or spectacularly ugly. Some plants live on their own or by growing off others. Some live by air and water, while others are carnivorous, eating the creatures around them. Some plants look remarkably like animals, while others have unusual symbolism. Some plants even have special cultural significance. This ebook explores them all, bringing together the most peculiar and most fascinating plants on the planet-celebrating them in all their diverse splendor. Split into five chapters, covering everything from poisonous plants to painkilling ones, Michael Perry explains, in an authoritative yet quirky way, exactly what makes each plant special. With exquisitely detailed illustrations of all the different species, this is an informative, humorous, and beautiful gift for all those who love plants-whether they want to grow them or not. Hortus Curious delivers a different way to view the plant world and enjoy it for its bonkers and bizarre ways.

The Garden of Delights Book

The Garden of Delights

  • Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • File Size : 10,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-06-03
  • Genre: History
  • Pages : 412
  • ISBN 10 : 9780812202113
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In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly persuasive new reading of female monastic culture. Through careful analysis of the contents, structure, and organization of the Hortus, Griffiths argues for women's profound engagement with the spiritual and intellectual vitality of the period on a level previously thought unimaginable, overturning the assumption that women were largely excluded from the "renaissance" and "reform" of this period. As a work of scholarship that drew from a wide range of sources, both monastic and scholastic, the Hortus provides a witness to the richness of women's reading practices within the cloister, demonstrating that it was possible, even late into the twelfth century, for communities of religious women to pursue an educational program that rivaled that available to men. At the same time, the manuscript's reformist agenda reveals how women engaged the pressing spiritual questions of the day, even going so far as to criticize priests and other churchmen who fell short of their reformist ideals. Through her wide-ranging examination of the texts and images of the Hortus, their sources, composition, and function, Griffiths offers an integrated understanding of the whole manuscript, one which highlights women's Latin learning and orthodox spirituality. The Garden of Delights contributes to some of the most urgent questions concerning medieval religious women, the interplay of gender, spirituality, and intellectual engagement, to discussions concerning women scribes and writers, women readers, female authorship and authority, and the visual culture of female communities. It will be of interest to art historians, scholars of women's and gender studies, historians of medieval religion, educatio

A catalogue of books Book

A catalogue of books

  • Author : Thomas and John Egerton
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 5,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 1790
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 910
  • ISBN 10 : OXFORD:555061167
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The Curious Mister Catesby Book

The Curious Mister Catesby

  • Author : E. Charles Nelson
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • File Size : 16,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2015-03-01
  • Genre: Art
  • Pages : 448
  • ISBN 10 : 9780820347264
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In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683–1749) crossed the Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America. There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years, he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The international contributors to this volume review Catesby’s biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances knowledge of Catesby’s explorations, collections, artwork, and publications in order to reassess his importance within the pantheon of early naturalists.

The Curious History of Mazes Book

The Curious History of Mazes

  • Author : Julie E. Bounford
  • Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
  • File Size : 9,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2018-10-02
  • Genre: Games & Activities
  • Pages : 195
  • ISBN 10 : 9780760363027
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Thread your way through this aMAZEing history and delve into a curious experience!​ From prehistoric times, mazes and labyrinths worldwide have served as different symbolic, ritualistic, and practical purposes. Taken as a powerful metaphor for life's journey, they can be used as tools for meditation and learning at any level, even when completed for recreation. Maze images can be enjoyed as motifs themselves, but also in their material forms—a meditation, puzzle, dance, walk, ritual, pilgrimage, or simply a day out. Drawing upon a wealth of historical and classical literature; accounts written by explorers, archaeologists, and historians; and the output of modern and contemporary world-renowned experts and enthusiasts, social historian Dr. Julie Bounford explores the evolution of mazes through time and across continents, presenting their history in a fun and engaging format while challenging readers to solve over 100 mazes—many created exclusively for this book by illustrator and artist Trevor Bounford. Learn about: The earliest recorded examples, legends, and mazes in the ancient world Mazes used as sacred rituals and symbols that take us beyond the natural world Turf, stone, hedge, and garden mazes, and sites of communal rustic revels The modern revival, with mazes taken to forms never previously imagined Explore how mazes can improve your mental dexterity and create mindfulness, and use the gazetteer to locate historical, replica, and interesting mazes that exist around the world today. The Puzzlecraft series from Wellfleet Press tackles some of the greatest conundrums of our time. Learn how to navigate the world’s trickiest mazes, solve the most complex crosswords, and finally get the answer to “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Follow literature’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as he guides you through hundreds of challenging cross-fitness brain exercises inspired by his most popular cases and adventures. You can also train your memory

A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century Part first containing a sketch of the revolutions and improvements in science arts and literature during that period Book

A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century Part first containing a sketch of the revolutions and improvements in science arts and literature during that period

  • Author : Samuel MILLER (D.D., of Princeton, New Jersey.)
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 1803
  • Genre: Uncategoriezed
  • Pages : 566
  • ISBN 10 : BL:A0022624838
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A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century Book

A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century

  • Author : Samuel Miller
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 20,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 1803
  • Genre: Art, Modern
  • Pages : 572
  • ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433082426804
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The Cleveland Herbal Botanical and Horticultural Collections Book

The Cleveland Herbal Botanical and Horticultural Collections

  • Author : Holden Arboretum
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • File Size : 16,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 1992
  • Genre: Botany
  • Pages : 1072
  • ISBN 10 : 0873384334
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More than 970 rare books, dating from 1479 to 1830 and covering such categories as gardening, herbals, botanical books and landscape architecture are catalogued in this bibliography.

Bibliotheca Americana Book

Bibliotheca Americana

  • Author : Joseph Sabin
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 17,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 1870
  • Genre: America
  • Pages : 590
  • ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433081687851
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A Dictionary of Books Relating to America Book

A Dictionary of Books Relating to America

  • Author : Joseph Sabin
  • Publisher : Unknown
  • File Size : 9,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 1870
  • Genre: American literature
  • Pages : 582
  • ISBN 10 : BCUL:1099101205
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