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An Historical Account of Coffee
This tract, which first appeared in 1774, considers the characteristics, cultivation and uses of the coffee plant. Its author, John Ellis (c.1710–76), was a botanist and zoologist …
Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757–1837) was published in 1861. It was complied by the military historian Sir John Kaye from her journals and a memoir based on …
Studies in Hegelian Cosmology
John McTaggart (1866–1925) was a Cambridge philosopher, famous for his metaphysical theory that time is not real and that temporal order is an illusion. Although best known for his …
The Renaissance of General Relativity and Cosmology
The past forty years have been a time of spectacular development in the study of general relativity and cosmology. A special role in this has been played by the influential …
Quantum Reflections
This volume introduces some of the basic philosophical and conceptual questions underlying the formulation of quantum mechanics, one of the most baffling and far-reaching aspects …
Observations on Popular Antiquities
John Brand (1744–1806), secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, first published his widely popular Observations on Popular Antiquities in 1777. This fascinating two-volume almanac …
Narration in the German Novelle
The Novelle is a characteristic German literary form, easier to recognize than to define, except as a brief novel or a long short story. The main body of this book is devoted to …
Narration in the German Novelle
An investigation of the German Novelle, in particular the relationship of the narrator to his story, and the importance of this relationship for its interpretation.
Studies in the Hegelian Dialectic
What is the nature of dialectic according to Hegel? And what is achieved by its means? These are the main questions that John McTaggart (1866–1925) seeks to answer in this work, …