Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
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Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
Lorraine Daston
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Wonders and the Order of Nature is about the ways in which European naturalists from the High Middle Ages through the Enlightenment used wonder and wonders, the passion and its objects, to envision themselves and the natural world. Monsters, gems that shone in the dark, petrifying springs, celestial apparitions--these were the marvels that adorned romances, puzzled philosophers, lured collectors, and frightened the devout. Drawing on the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park explore and explain how wonder and wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals. This is a history of the passions of inquiry, of how wonder sometimes inflamed, sometimes dampened curiosity about nature's best-kept secrets. Refracted through the prism of wonders, the order of nature splinters into a spectrum of orders, a tour of possible worlds.

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3 out of 5 stars Educational, but a real pain........2002-11-06

I have been reading this book for school. This book might be for you if: you are very interested in Latin philosophers. you have background in Medieval and Rennisance history. You are well read and have a large vocabulary. you are interested in "wonder".
I've found that this a very boring and difficult book to read because I don't have enough background and I know next to nothing about ancient philosophers. This book is post-college or college level for someone specialyzing in Medieval and Renn history.

5 out of 5 stars Unusual and Engrossing.......2001-05-24

The authors of this study do a magnificent job of looking at a cross-section of the history of Wonder itself, sort of "in the large," as well as the history of wondrous objects, from the slice of time upon which they focus. This book was twenty years in the making, off and on, and it really shows. Every point they make clearly has been carefully weighed, backed up, and illustrated, as often as not, with beautiful selections from poetry, etc. The authors state in the preface that they began with the study of monsters, which in the final, published version of their book is relegated to chapter five. Know, O Reader, that the material in that chapter constituted the starting impetus for this whole study, and you will have a better understanding of various structural oddities in the book.

One of the main themes the authors deal with is not exactly an historical overview of science, but more along the lines of social and cultural history. They write about the relationship of elites, be they religious, social, or academic, to various kinds of wonder. Do the elites embrace wonder? Do they despise it? And what about lone philosophers? Where do they fit in? The answers vary greatly, according to multitudinous factors. For me, one theme to bear in mind while reading this book was my own experience of wonder, or curiosity, and the clashing of that feeling with "The Game" in school... Anyone reading this book will, obviously, have an extremely active, inquisitive mind, to say the least. Think back (or think forward, as the case may be,) to your time in school. Did you tend to keep the topics that provoked genuine wonder in you private? Did you generally avoid mentioning them, lest they should happen to become candidates for impacting "The Game," over which the more sociable people in any classroom preside? These are two very different states of mind, and their interplay can be quite fearfully tumultuous. If you know what I'm talking about, then you already have a feel for the kind of issues that the authors of this book delve into, and deal with on an incredibly grand scale.

By the way, I'd like to recommend a couple of other titles for people looking at this book. For some reason, neither of these are in this book's bibliography. I'm not sure why not -- probably because they are so basic that the authors may have felt that anyone reading their book would already know about them. For people who might NOT know about them, I'd like to recommend "The Great Chain of Being," by Arthur O. Lovejoy, and Rudolph Pfeiffer's two volume study of "The History of Classical Scholarship." These volumes will add whole dimensions to your understanding of the matters that Daston and Park discuss, if anybody out there is interested.

This book is a prodigious feat. Worth scoping out.
1000 Wonders of Nature
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    1000 Wonders of Nature
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    For science and nature buffs of all ages, this is a fact-filled compendium with over 1,300 full-color photos of intriguing living creatures and impressive natural spectacles-an ideal way to learn about the Earth above, around, and below us. Packed with amazing facts-from friendly fungi to terrifying tornadoes, it clearly explains the science behind each fact.
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          Genetics of the actinomycetales: Proceedings of the internat, colloquium at the Forschungsinst. Borstel, September 29-October 1, 1976
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                Mars, Vol. 10
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                5 out of 5 stars I just wanna say..........2004-07-27

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                5 out of 5 stars Great for teens, bad for little kids.......2004-06-03

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                4 out of 5 stars On to Mars - Take the trip with Apogee Books!.......2006-06-16

                Apogee Books once again strikes gold! This Mars book is one of the best written, because it deals specifically with the spacecraft and missions that went to the Red Planet. Original press kits and fact sheets for the first few Mariner missions (a rare find!) have the orbital calculations for the trans-Earth and trans-Mars trajectories - how many times have you seen estimated times for travel, but wondered "How did they get that?"

                The data for the Viking missions are also interesting - they list the 3 main experiments that was going to solidify the "Life on Mars" argument. The data was inconclusive, and I can't quite remember if the press kits covered the results - however, the fact that the experimental procedures and equipment were listed is amazing.

                Apogee Books have a high "geek" factor built in and this book does no less than the rest of the series. If you're one of those who needs to know how it works or the 'rest of the story' then Mars: The Nasa Mission Reports, Vol. 1 & 2 are for your library.

                5 out of 5 stars A great reference.......2006-06-16

                This book pulls together a ton of publicly available information on the unmanned Mars probes from the United States, tracking the changes in our understanding of the Red Planed. The bonus CD has, among other things, a cool short film starring Carl Sagan, showing the experiments on the Viking landers that were to show whether there is life on Mars.

                4 out of 5 stars Search for Mars.......2006-06-16

                This book is a nice handy reference of robotic exploration of Mars (Mariner IV to Mars Polar Lander). The information is detailed enough to give you an understanding of the mission objectives and the spacecraft design. The level of detail varies for each mission, but in most cases gives the reader a starting point. Before this book was available I spent many hours trying to compile this information myself and was never fully able to obtain a complete collection. So I would recommend this book because of it's completeness (at least to Mars Polar Lander) and for the insight it does provide into each mission. May there be many more volumes to come.

                5 out of 5 stars What a great book!.......2005-09-16

                We're using this as a textbook for a class on the history of Mars exploration. It makes a great supplement to the science articles we've been reading - it is very easy to read.

                5 out of 5 stars Space history, and a look at what we missed.......2001-10-31

                It's hard to get more technical, but it's exactly what you need if you want to have a look at the technology that was used to conquer that "final frontier", starting about 40 years ago. It was definitly a time where exploration was risky, and NASA was actually willing to risk it.

                Those little probes were so rudimentary compared to what we can do now, and yet, they were state-of-the-art machines that were launched one after another to the planets... with equally deceiving and surprising results. When you think that the Viking data is still being used (and the new results are still controversial), it's hard not to be impressed.

                Ironically, this book, which may have been a tribute to NASA creativeness, ends up with the Mars Observer, Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter reports, three probes that failed. The failure is definitly not the problem, because most of the Mars probes failed. But NASA attitude has dramatically changed since the first Mariner. A failure was merely a plausible outcome, but now, it's a catastrophy that invokes a complete Mars programme reeavaluation...

                And to kill it completely, this invaluable little book includes the Werner Von Braun infamous roadmap to Mars... envisionned for the 1980's. Another sad hint that NASA failed to its destiny, and will probably never recover.

                This book shoudl definitly be read with some other good space history books, that will help put the technical prowess in perspective. I would recommend the following:

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                Beckett YU-GI-OH Collector (Feb./Mar. 2004, Issue 10, Vol. 3, No. 2, K8247)
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                  Bodleian Library Record. Vol 9, No 2 (Mar 1974) to Vol 10, No1 (Dec 1978).
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                      IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 10, No. 3, Mar. 1998
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                        “Infrared Spectral Emission and its Application to the Detection of Organic Matter on Mars.” Offprint from: Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 70, no. 10, 1965.
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                            JMB : Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol. 247, No. 1, Mar. 10 1995
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                                The Significance of Children and Animals:  Social Development and Our Connections to Other Species, Second Revised Edition
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                                            Flame photometry,: A manual of methods and applications,
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                                              Nonlinear Kalman Filtering for Force-Controlled Robot Tasks (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)
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                                                Tine Lefebvre , Herman Bruyninckx , and Joris De Schutter
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                                                This monograph focuses on how to achieve more robot autonomy by means of reliable processing skills. "Nonlinear Kalman Filtering for Force-Controlled Robot Tasks " discusses the latest developments in the areas of contact modeling, nonlinear parameter estimation and task plan optimization for improved estimation accuracy. Kalman filtering techniques are applied to identify the contact state based on force sensing between a grasped object and the environment. The potential of this work is to be found not only for industrial robot operation in space, sub-sea or nuclear scenarios, but also for service robots operating in unstructured environments co-habited by humans where autonomous compliant tasks require active sensing.

                                                Classic Ghost Stories: Eighteen Spine-Chilling Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
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                                                Even now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, when science has largely replaced superstition as our way of viewing the world, who among us does not hesitate, however briefly, before entering a darkened room? Who does not feel an involuntary shiver at the sound of footfalls somewhere back there? Who does not wonder, even fleetingly, if the spirits of the dead might still wander the earth? Who does not feel a jolt of primal fear at things that go bump in the night?

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