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MELLEN AYER (Josephine).
Memoir.
New York, The Knickerbocker press, 1900, In-8, pleine suedine souris, 107 pp., portrait en frontispice.
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Flaxman's classical outlines: notes on their leading characteristics, with a brief memoir of the artist
Sparkes, John C.L.: Flaxman's classical outlines: notes on their leading characteristics, with a brief memoir of the artist. London: Seeley & Co Ltd, 1885. 20 pages of text, 146 plates. Hardback. Pages clean, spine slightly loose and pages disbound.
Pages clean, spine slightly loose and pages disbound. Text in English
Robert Bevan 1865-1925: A Memoir by his Son
Bevan, R: Robert Bevan 1865-1925: A Memoir by his Son. London: Studio Vista, 1965. With 28 pages of text, 9 colour and 80 monochrome plates. Hardback. 32.5 x 24.5cms. Without dust jacket.
Without dust jacket. Text in English
John Tweed Sculptor, a memoir
Tweed, Lendal: John Tweed Sculptor, a memoir. London: Lovat Dickson, 1936. 208pp 24 monochrome illustrations. Cloth.
"FRESNEL, A. (AUGUSTIN). - THE ""SECOND MEMOIR"" OF 1827, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION.
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Memoir on Double Refraction. (From the Mémoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences d l'Institut de France, tome vii. 1827).
London, Taylor and Francis, 1852. 8vo. Without wrappers. In: ""Scientific Memoirs, selected from Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science... Edited by Richard Taylor."", Vol. V, Part XVIII. With titlepage to Vol. V. Pp. (151-) 352 (entire part offered). Fresnel's paper: pp. 238-333. Clean and fine. Titlepage with a small faint stamp.
First appearance in English of Fresnel's famous memoir - the memoir of 1827, his so-called second memoir - in which some of his groundbreaking discoveries concerning light is stated. He applies the concept of transverse waves to double refraction and representing the final construction, in the form of an equation of the fourth degree.In the paper Fresnel also explained the fact,that in some cases of quartz the rotation of polarization is from left to right and in other cases from right to left.. He proposed the term 'helical' to denote the property of rotating the plane of polarization, exhibited by such bodies as quartz. The term 'natural rotatory polarisation' is however, generally used.This memoir contains the first printing of three unpublished memoirs from 1821 and 1822 (Mémoire sur la double refraction.Extrait Read 26. Nov., 1821 - Supplement, presented 22 January 1822 - Second Supplement, presented April 1, 1822. - Explication de la réfraction dans le système des Ondes from ""Bulletin Soc. Philom."", 1821. See Jed. Z. Buchwald ""The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light"", pp. 461-63.
Nun's Cell as Mirror, Memoir, and Metaphor in Convent Life. Study of the Models of Nuns' Cells from the Collection of the Trésors de Ferveur
, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 242 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:124 col., Language: English.* NEW ISBN 9782503601939.
Summary In the eighteenth through the early twentieth century, French nuns from various orders created miniature simulacra of the cells in which they slept, studied, and performed their devotions. Each diorama contains an effigy of the nun, a prie-Dieu, devotional objects such as a crucifix, handiwork, and artifacts to foster study and contemplation. This book examines the lives of the brides of Christ as depicted in these dioramas, proposing that the material objects found in the chambers trace the contours of the collective and individual identities of the nuns who created these cells. Viewed as a type of memoir, the cells furnish the sisters a stage upon which to rehearse the meaning of their lives. The dioramas create a tension between the private and public presentations of the self, between verisimilitude and self-fashioning, and between reality and representation. The book contextualizes the miniature cells within the larger discourse of gender, identity, self-representation, monastic devotion, and the power wielded by the aesthetics of scale. TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Nun's Cell: Mirror, Memoir and Metaphor in Convent Art Chapter 1: In Clausura Chapter 2: The Language of the Cells Chapter 3: Objects in Miniature Chapter 4: Memoir - Traces of a Nun's Life Chapter 5: Conclusion Bibliography
