A história da Igreja e da religiosidade medievais é marcada por tensões e conflitos diversos, não apenas entre a Igreja e os poderes constituídos, como também entre a Igreja oficial e as novas formas de...
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguiling—and married—aristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s theories. In an era when women were rarely...
This book examines the shared rhetoric surrounding the creation of the "inventor" and the "author" in the 1830s, and the challenge of the emerging technologies of mass production to traditional ideas of art and industry. Patent Inventions argues...