Roy Porter
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The penguin social history of britain: english society in the eighteenth century
Roy Porter
- Adult pbs
- 7 Décembre 2006
- 9780140138191
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Enlightenment: britain and the creation of the modern world
Roy Porter
- Adult pbs
- 22 Février 2007
- 9780140250282
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. Porter immerses the reader in a society which, recovering from the horrors of the Civil War and decisively reinvigorated by the revolution of 1688, had emerged as something new and extraordinary - a society unlike any other in the world.
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Mankind's battle to stay alive is the greatest of all subjects. This brief, witty and unusual book by Britain's greatest medical historian compresses into a tiny span a lifetime spent thinking about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. Each chapter sums up one of these battlefields (surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals, laboratories and the human body) in a way that is both frightening and elating. Startlingly illustrated, A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE is the ideal presentfor anyone who is keenly aware of their own mortality and wants to do something about it. It is also a wonderful memorial to one of Penguin's greatest historians.
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La Bible oubliée ; apocryphes de l'Ancien et du Nouveau Testament
Joshua Roy Porter
- Albin michel
- Spiritualites Vivantes Poche
- 29 Octobre 2014
- 9782226258465
Perdus au cours des vicissitudes de l'histoire ou condamnés par l'Eglise naissante, les textes « apocryphes » réunis dans cette Bible oubliée ont continué à circuler par des voies souterraines sans jamais cesser d'influencer les courants majoritaires.Pour la première fois, ces versants occultés de la littérature biblique sont accessibles dans une lecture suivie, présentés et interprétés par J.R. Porter, théologien anglais de renom. Attribuées à des grandes figures bibliques comme Abraham, Hénoch, Elie, Paul, Pierre ou Philippe, ces paroles nous font vivre la création des anges, la déchéance de Satan, aussi bien que la vie quotidienne de l'enfant Jésus. Adam et Eve donnent chacun leur version de la Chute, tandis que le Christ délivre des aphorismes gnostiques dans l'Evangile de Thomas.Témoins d'une Antiquité où florissaient les vocations prophétiques et les interprétations divergentes, ces voix sont restituées dans une polyphonie tour à tour apocalyptique et essénienne, judéo-chrétienne et gnostique.
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Oxford dictionary of scientific quotations
W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter
- Oxford university press english language teacher
- 16 Septembre 2010
- 9780198614432
Major addition to the world-famous 'Oxford Quotations' range Scholarly but accessible Charts the progress of the great ideas of science, from Archimedes to Einstein and beyond Full author descriptions and word-finding index for easy reference The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating addition to the world-famous 'Oxford Quotations' range. An essential reference tool, put together over 15 years with the assistance of a distinguished team of specialist advisers, it includes full author descriptions, exact sources, and a word-finding index for easy reference. Scholarly but accessible, it also presents the human face of science, as scientists reflect on achievements and failures in their own lives and those of others. Darwin not only describes natural selection, but carefully assesses the pros and cons of marriage, while James Clerk Maxwell constructs an electric but poetic Valentine as well as his 'demon'. From Archimedes to Einstein and beyond, the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations charts the progress of the great ideas of science.
'Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.' Arthur Eddington 'I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.' Albert Einstein 'Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.' Rosalind Franklin 'I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.' Galileo Galilei 'I try to identify myself with the atoms...I ask what I would do if I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.' Linus Pauling Readership: Scientists plus anyone interested in history and philosophy of science or history of ideas.
