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English Identity in the Writings of John Milton
The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Honors Theses Honors College Fall 12-2012 English Identity in the Writings of John Milton Hannah E. Ryan University of Southern Mississippi Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Ryan, Hannah E., "English Identity in the Writings of John Milton" (2012). Honors Theses. 102. https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/102 This Honors College Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College at The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of Southern Mississippi English Identity in the Writings of John Milton by Hannah Elizabeth Ryan A Thesis Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in the Department of English November 2012 ii Approved by _____________________________ Jameela Lares Professor of English _____________________________ Eric Tribunella, Chair Department of English ________________________________ David R. Davies, Dean Honors College iii Abstract: John Milton is an essential writer to the English canon. Understanding his life and thought is necessary to understanding his corpus. This thesis will examine Milton’s nationalism in several major and minor poems as well as in some of Milton’s prose. It will argue that Milton’s nationalism is difficult to trace chronologically, but that education is always essential to Milton’s national vision of England. -
The Vienna University Observatory
The Vienna University Observatory THOMAS POSCH Abstract The Vienna University Observatory, housing what was once the world’s largest refracting telescope, still serves as a centre of astronomical research and teaching. In 1819, Johann Josef von Littrow (1781-1840) became Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Vienna. He tried to move the University Observatory - which was at that time still located at the city centre - to the outskirts, but did not succeed. After his death, his son Carl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877) became director of the Observatory. The total solar eclipse which took place on July 8, 1842, in his first year as director, made astronomy very popular and helped promote new investment. In 1872, a large site was acquired for a new observatory on a hill called "Türkenschanze", near the village of Währing outside Vienna. Building began in 1874. The architects of the imposing new building were Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer, both specialists in theatre buildings. Their concept was to combine observatory and apartments on a cross-shaped plan, which was unusually large for its day; 101 m length and 73 m width. The big refractor telescope (with an aperture of 27 inches, or 68 cm and a focal length of 10.5 m) was then the largest refracting telescope in the world. The celebratory opening took place in 1883. The excellent instrumentation made possible numerous remarkable Fig. 1 - Georg von Peuerbach’s ‘Theoricae novae planetarum’, discoveries in the fields of binary stars, Nuremberg 1473 asteroids and comets. However, the Währing district quickly became attractive to the Viennese upper classes and the observatory was soon part of an illuminated urban area. -
Old Ipswichian Journal
The journal of the Old Ipswichian Club Old Ipswichian Journal The Journal of the Old Ipswichian Club | Issue 8 2017 In this issue Club news • Features • Members’ news • Births, marriages, deaths and obituaries OI Club events • School news • From the archives • Programme of events Page Content 01 Member Leavers 2016 Life Members Year 13 Friar Emily Victoria Murray Dylan James Goldthorpe Oliver Pardoe Maximillian Thomas Ablett Emily Louise Goodwin Adam Robert Patel Elisha Yogeshkumar Adams Georgina Baddeley Gorham Emily Louise Patten Arthur George Alexander Hannah Gravell Oscar James Robert Phillips Tobias Edward Oliver Alfs Benjamin Ward Hamilton Michael Pickering Jack Frederick Ayre Scarlett Victoria Hardwick Eleanor Maisie Price Indigo Celeste Imogen Barlow Natasha Alice Harris Leo William Patrick Prickett James Robert Bartleet Henry Oliver Hills Matilda Kate Proud Faye Madeleine Blackmore Livia Constance Houston Caitlin Siobhan Putman Sebastian Joseph Boyle India Howard Ruby Eliza Rackham Isabelle Eve Broadway Charles Hudson Tobias James Riley James Mark Brown Isobel Poppy Hyam Brittany Lily-Ray Robson Tallulah Inger Mary Bryanton Alexander James Jiang Wenyuan Robson Eben Harry Campbell Oliver Thomas Jones William James Cresswell Rowbotham Emily Charlotte Cappabianca Mia Isabella Kemp Nathanael Jefferson Royle Emily Florence Carless-Frost Tabitha Kemp-Smith Teja Kim Rule Charlotte Elizabeth Chan Yat Hei Knight Jonathan Anthony Rush Tobias Charles Chen Yuepeng Christopher Shaikly Anna Cheng Pun Hong Knights William John Sharma Sasha -
Samuel Hartlib in His Papers 1620-1662 Timothy Earl Miller Georgia State University
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University History Theses Department of History 5-9-2015 Pleasure, Honor, And Profit: Samuel Hartlib In His Papers 1620-1662 Timothy Earl Miller Georgia State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses Recommended Citation Miller, Timothy Earl, "Pleasure, Honor, And Profit: Samuel Hartlib In His Papers 1620-1662." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2015. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/89 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of History at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. PLEASURE, HONOR, AND PROFIT: SAMUEL HARTLIB IN HIS PAPERS 1620-1662 by TIMOTHY E. MILLER Under the Direction of Nicholas Wilding, PhD ABSTRACT Discovered in 1933 after having been hidden from the academic world for 271 years, the Hartlib Papers have been called the greatest 17 th century research revelation of the 20 th century. Yet 81 years later the author and collector of the papers remains a mystery and the content of the papers have been little appreciated. Who was this auctor prudens and what do his voluminous papers have to say about his time? This thesis argues that Hartlib is a critical link in a long chain of scholars who formed and shaped the development of science. An evolution which began with Roger Bacon, more fully developed into a new epistemology with Francis Bacon, is passed on by Hartlib to others who were founding members of the Royal Society. -
Academic Genealogy of the Oakland University Department Of
Basilios Bessarion Mystras 1436 Guarino da Verona Johannes Argyropoulos 1408 Università di Padova 1444 Academic Genealogy of the Oakland University Vittorino da Feltre Marsilio Ficino Cristoforo Landino Università di Padova 1416 Università di Firenze 1462 Theodoros Gazes Ognibene (Omnibonus Leonicenus) Bonisoli da Lonigo Angelo Poliziano Florens Florentius Radwyn Radewyns Geert Gerardus Magnus Groote Università di Mantova 1433 Università di Mantova Università di Firenze 1477 Constantinople 1433 DepartmentThe Mathematics Genealogy Project of is a serviceMathematics of North Dakota State University and and the American Statistics Mathematical Society. Demetrios Chalcocondyles http://www.mathgenealogy.org/ Heinrich von Langenstein Gaetano da Thiene Sigismondo Polcastro Leo Outers Moses Perez Scipione Fortiguerra Rudolf Agricola Thomas von Kempen à Kempis Jacob ben Jehiel Loans Accademia Romana 1452 Université de Paris 1363, 1375 Université Catholique de Louvain 1485 Università di Firenze 1493 Università degli Studi di Ferrara 1478 Mystras 1452 Jan Standonck Johann (Johannes Kapnion) Reuchlin Johannes von Gmunden Nicoletto Vernia Pietro Roccabonella Pelope Maarten (Martinus Dorpius) van Dorp Jean Tagault François Dubois Janus Lascaris Girolamo (Hieronymus Aleander) Aleandro Matthaeus Adrianus Alexander Hegius Johannes Stöffler Collège Sainte-Barbe 1474 Universität Basel 1477 Universität Wien 1406 Università di Padova Università di Padova Université Catholique de Louvain 1504, 1515 Université de Paris 1516 Università di Padova 1472 Università -
Mathematical Genealogy of the Wellesley College Department Of
Nilos Kabasilas Mathematical Genealogy of the Wellesley College Department of Mathematics Elissaeus Judaeus Demetrios Kydones The Mathematics Genealogy Project is a service of North Dakota State University and the American Mathematical Society. http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/ Georgios Plethon Gemistos Manuel Chrysoloras 1380, 1393 Basilios Bessarion 1436 Mystras Johannes Argyropoulos Guarino da Verona 1444 Università di Padova 1408 Cristoforo Landino Marsilio Ficino Vittorino da Feltre 1462 Università di Firenze 1416 Università di Padova Angelo Poliziano Theodoros Gazes Ognibene (Omnibonus Leonicenus) Bonisoli da Lonigo 1477 Università di Firenze 1433 Constantinople / Università di Mantova Università di Mantova Leo Outers Moses Perez Scipione Fortiguerra Demetrios Chalcocondyles Jacob ben Jehiel Loans Thomas à Kempis Rudolf Agricola Alessandro Sermoneta Gaetano da Thiene Heinrich von Langenstein 1485 Université Catholique de Louvain 1493 Università di Firenze 1452 Mystras / Accademia Romana 1478 Università degli Studi di Ferrara 1363, 1375 Université de Paris Maarten (Martinus Dorpius) van Dorp Girolamo (Hieronymus Aleander) Aleandro François Dubois Jean Tagault Janus Lascaris Matthaeus Adrianus Pelope Johann (Johannes Kapnion) Reuchlin Jan Standonck Alexander Hegius Pietro Roccabonella Nicoletto Vernia Johannes von Gmunden 1504, 1515 Université Catholique de Louvain 1499, 1508 Università di Padova 1516 Université de Paris 1472 Università di Padova 1477, 1481 Universität Basel / Université de Poitiers 1474, 1490 Collège Sainte-Barbe -
Academic Genealogy of Richard Douglas Chatham
Georgios Gemistos Plethon Constantinople / Edirne / Bursa 1380, 1393 Basilios Bessarion Mystras 1436 Johannes Argyropoulos Università di Padova 1444 Marsilio Ficino Cristoforo Landino Università di Firenze 1462 Angelo Poliziano Heinrich von Langenstein Università di Firenze 1477 Université de Paris 1363, 1375 Moses Perez Scipione Fortiguerra Leo Outers Theodoros Gazes Johannes von Gmunden Università di Firenze 1493 Université Catholique de Louvain 1485 Constantinople / Università di Mantova 1433 Universität Wien 1406 Demetrios Chalcocondyles Jean Tagault François Dubois Girolamo (Hieronymus Aleander) Aleandro Maarten (Martinus Dorpius) van Dorp Jacob ben Jehiel Loans Rudolf Agricola Georg von Peuerbach Mystras / Accademia Romana 1452 Université de Paris 1516 Università di Padova 1499, 1508 Université Catholique de Louvain 1504, 1515 Università degli Studi di Ferrara 1478 Universität Wien 1440 Janus Lascaris Jacobus (Jacques Dubois) Sylvius Rutger Rescius Petrus (Pieter de Corte) Curtius Matthaeus Adrianus Johann (Johannes Kapnion) Reuchlin Jan Standonck Alexander Hegius Luca Pacioli Johannes (Johann Müller) Regiomontanus Università di Padova 1472 Université de Paris / Université de Montpellier 1530 Université de Paris 1513 Université Catholique de Louvain 1513, 1530 Universität Basel / Université de Poitiers 1477, 1481 Collège Sainte-Barbe / Collège de Montaigu 1474, 1490 1474 Universität Leipzig / Universität Wien 1457 Georgius Hermonymus Johannes Winter von Andernach Gemma (Jemme Reinerszoon) Frisius Jan (Johannes Campensis) van Campen -
John Sadler (1615-1674) Religion, Common Law, and Reason in Early Modern England
THE PETER TOMASSI ESSAY john sadler (1615-1674) religion, common law, and reason in early modern england pranav kumar jain, university of chicago (2015) major problems. First, religion—the pivotal force I. INTRODUCTION: RE-THINKING EARLY that shaped nearly every aspect of life in seventeenth- MODERN COMMON LAW century England—has received very little attention in ost histories of Early Modern English most accounts of common law. As I will show in the common law focus on a very specific set next section, either religion is not mentioned at all of individuals, namely Justices Edward or treated as parallel to common law. In other words, MCoke and Matthew Hale, Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Henry historians have generally assumed a disconnect Finch, Sir John Doddridge, and-very recently-John between religion and common law during this Selden.i The focus is partly explained by the immense period. Even works that have attempted to examine influence most of these individuals exercised upon the intersection of religion and common law have the study and practice of common law during the argued that the two generally existed in harmony seventeenth century.ii Moreover, according to J.W. or even as allies in service to political motives. Tubbs, such a focus is unavoidable because a great The possibility of tensions between religion and majority of common lawyers left no record of their common law has not been considered at all. Second, thoughts.1 It is my contention that Tubbs’ view is most historians have failed to consider emerging unwarranted. Even if it is impossible to reconstruct alternative ways in which seventeenth-century the thoughts of a vast majority of common lawyers, common lawyers conceptualized the idea of reason there is no reason to limit our studies of common as a foundational pillar of English common law. -
The Projecting of Sir Balthazar Gerbier, 1642–1662
Print, Publicity, and Popularity: The Projecting of Sir Balthazar Gerbier, 1642–1662 Jason Peacey n 18 July 1649, the London bookseller George Thomason received O a handwritten note inviting him to the grand opening of an academy at Bethnal Green, outside London’s eastern walls, which was to be held on 19 July and where he was promised “good company and a hearty re- ception.”1 A few weeks later, the reformer Samuel Hartlib received a similar invitation to bring his family to another grand event at the new institution.2 The invitations were sent by the academy’s founder, Sir Balthazar Gerbier, and his short-lived venture might be regarded as a rather odd footnote to the history of education during the early modern period and be thought to deserve the minimal amount of scholarly attention it received since its collapse twelve months later.3 Nevertheless, the interest shown in its operation by Thomason and Hartlib indicates that this scheme represented more than merely an attempt to copy European academies or to emulate Sir Francis Kynaston’s Musaeum Minerva of the 1630s by means of a private facility to educate the elite in the arts of nobility and warfare. It was, in other words, something other than just a display of Gerbier’s credentials as a child of the Renaissance.4 Gerbier was addressing men Jason Peacey is senior lecturer in history at University College London. He works on early modern politics, parliaments, and political culture, with a particular interest in print culture and its role in transforming the practices associated with government and popular participation. -
Protestant Propaganda in a Cold War of Religion: from the Hartlib Circle to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Sugiko Nishikawa
LITHUANIAN historical STUDIES 16 2011 ISSN 1392-2343 PP. 51–59 PROTESTANT PROPAGANDA IN A COLD War OF RELIGION: FROM THE HARTLIB CIRCLE TO THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE Sugiko Nishikawa ABSTRACT This article considers how, impelled by confessional divisions caused by the Reformation, a general sense of pan-Protestant community grew across Europe, and its members launched a long battle against Ro- man Catholicism far beyond the 16th century. Indeed, it continued into the mid-18th century, the so-called Age of Reason. If it cannot necessarily be described as an open war of religion like the Thirty Years War, it was at least a cold war. From their points of view, the Protestant minorities threat- ened by the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, such as the Waldensi- ans in northern Italy and the Lithuanian Calvinists, stood on the front line in this war. Thus, financial support was regularly offered by the Protestant churches in Great Britain and Ireland to their distressed brethren across the continent, university scholarships were set up for students from Catholic- dominated areas, and plans were drafted for a Protestant union in Europe, from a military level to an ecclesiastical one. It is in this context that we must understand how apparently strange a phenomenon as British support for the translation of the Bible into Lithuanian developed. The author sees Chylinski’s activities in the tradition of learning and charity exhibited in the 1650s by the three leading members of the Hartlib philosophical circle, namely, Samuel Hartlib (originally from Elbing), Jan Amos Comenius (from Moravia), and John Dury (born in Edinburgh, he spent his early life in vari- ous places in northern Europe), who were, in a sense, Protestant refugees to England from north-central Europe. -
Steam Engines
Evolving Design Steam Engines Tetsuo Tomiyama ([email protected]) 1 Intelligent Mechanical Systems, Bio-Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Overview • A Small Question • History of Thermodynamics • Steam Engines • Thomas Newcomen • James Watt • After Watt • Improvements • Steam Cars • Steam Locomotives • Steamboats • Exam 2008 Wb3110: Steam Engines 2 ©2011 Tetsuo Tomiyama Which is the Oldest? • MIT 1861 • Second Law of Thermodynamics 1850 Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (1822-1888) • TU Delft 1842 Wb3110: Steam Engines 3 ©2011 Tetsuo Tomiyama Definition of Mechanical Engineering • “To Build and Run a Steam Engine!” • (Unofficial Version@ME MIT) Wb3110: Steam Engines 4 ©2011 Tetsuo Tomiyama History of Thermodynamics • 1660: Robert Boyle Boyle's Law • 1712: Thomas Newcomen • 1741: École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussés • 1765: James Watt (Only the Idea) • 1770: Steam Car • 1776: James Watt (The Engine), Steamboat • 1794: Ecole Polytechnique • 1804: Steam Locomotive • 1824: Sadi Carnot, Carnot Cycle • 1842: TU Delft Wb3110: Steam Engines 5 ©2011 Tetsuo Tomiyama History of Thermodynamics • 1843: James Joule, Mechanical Equivalent of Heat • 1847: Hermann von Helmholtz, Definitive Statement of the First Law of Thermodynamics • 1849: William John Macquorn Rankine, Saturated Vapor Table (Pressure and Temperature) • 1850: Rudolf Clausius, The Second Law of Thermodynamics • 1851: Thomson an Alternative Statement of the Second Law • 1854: Clausius, Found dQ/T, but Did Not Name It • 1854: Rankine, Entropy -
Academic Genealogy Demetri Terzopoulos (From the Mathematics Genealogy Project) Ph.D
Academic Genealogy Demetri Terzopoulos (From the Mathematics Genealogy Project) Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1984 Shimon Ullman Sir J. Michael Brady Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1977 Ph.D. Australian National University 1970 David Courtenay Marr L´aszl´oG.Kov´acs Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1971 Ph.D. University of Manchester 1961 Giles Brindley Bernhard H. Neumann Ph.D. University of Berlin 1932 Ph.D. Cambridge University 1935 Issai Schur Philip Hall Dr.Phil. Universit¨at Berlin 1901 M.A. University of Cambridge 1926 Karl Pearson Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1879 Georg Ferdinand Frob enius Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs Sir Francis Galton Ph.D. Universit¨at Berlin 1870 Dr.Phil. Universit¨at Berlin 1858 Ph.D. 1 1 William Hopkins Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1830 Adam Sedgwick Ph.D. University of Cambridge 1811 5 See page 2 1 . Issac Newton University of Cambridge 1668 . Galileo Galilei Universit`adiPisa Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass Ernst Eduard Kummer . Honorary, Universit¨at K¨onigsberg 1854 Ph.D. Martin-Luther-Universit¨at Halle-Wittenberg 1831 . Christoph Gudermann Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk Ph.D. Georg-August-Universit¨at G¨ottingen 1841 Ph.D. Universit¨at Berlin 1823 2 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes Ph.D. Georg-August-Universit¨at G¨ottingen 1810 Dr.Phil. Georg-August-Universit¨at G¨ottingen 1800 2 3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Dr.Phil. Georg-August-Universit¨at G¨ottingen 1800 3 2 3 Carl Friedrich Gauss Abraham Gotthelf Kaestner Ph.D. Universit¨at Helmstedt 1799 Ph.D. Universit¨at Leipzig 1739 Johann Friedrich Pfaff Christian August Hausen Dr.Phil.