London And The Seventeenth Century Av Margarette Lincoln

Every major poet or philosopher develops their own distinctive semantic field around those terms which matter most to them, or which contribute most profoundly to the imagined world of a particular work. This book explores the specific meanings which...

Is war the opposite of peace, or its necessary accomplice? Exploring this question in relation to eighteenth-century Britain, Andrew Lincoln opens up complex, paradoxical and enduring issues and shows how ideas and methods were developed to provide the...

This book considers the foundation of the science of ballistics in the seventeenth century as a mathematical interpretation based on exact experimental investigation. Dr Hall examines the science of ballistics with reference to its underlying mathematical...