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Failed Historical Scientific Instruments /
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Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shedding light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed. The essays show how diverse failures can be, and how the assessment of scientific devices may change over time - some surprisingly becoming more successful. In addition to studies of how technical features led to failure, the authors examine the roles played by social bias and behaviour, commercial and economic circumstances, and political factors.
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1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004689107
Map of historic Cairo /
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In the draft manuscript the sheets are numbered as follows: A 5-7, B 1-7, C1-7, D 1-7, E 1-7 ; in the published form the sheets will be numbered 1-31, with a key map.
This is a manuscript draft in pen and ink, to be published in January 2005. :
1 map on 31 sheets ; 75 x 113 cm. :
May require conservation work before use.
Questioning the historicity of Jesus : why a philosophical analysis elucidates the historical discourse /
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This volume moves beyond the mainstream scholarly scepticism over the Christ of Faith and considers if there is sufficient evidence to establish the existence of the more mundane Historical Jesus. Using the logical tools of the analytic philosopher, Lataster finds that the relevant sources are unreliable as historical documents, and that the key method of those purporting that the Historical Jesus existed is to appeal to sources that do not exist. Considering an ancient hypothesis suggesting that Jesus began as a celestial messiah that certain Second Temple Jews already believed in, and was later allegorised in the Gospels, Lataster discovers that it is more reasonable to at least be agnostic over Jesus' historicity.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004408784