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2017Best.-Nr. x-0198805322Oxford Univ Pr 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 945 pages. 9.50x6.50x3.00 inches. Oxford Univ Pr paperback
2020Best.-Nr. 009317Princeton University Press Princeton 2020 2020. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st ed. 1st printing ; xi 561 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm ; ISBN 9780691200903 9780691233963 0691200904 0691233969 ; OCLC 1110656207 ; dark grey cloth in dustjacket; dustjacket attached to endpapers ; Contents: A Quaker's Odyssey. Dinner at Longman's -- In the classroom of nature -- An errand in the city -- The vocal circle -- Lecturer and physician -- The Herculaneum papyri -- Antiquity Embraced. Words from Egypt's past -- The sounds of an ancient language -- Paris atmospheres -- Rooted in place -- Hier pour demain -- L'Affaire Polycarpe -- An Egyptian geography of Egypt -- Indications -- Scripts and Bones. Summer at Worthing -- Letters from Paris -- The papyri of the Description de l'Egypte -- Seeking uxellodunum -- The master of conditions -- Abandoning the alphabet at Grenoble --Demonstrations -- Iconoclasm at the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres -- Reading the Past. The obelisk from Philae -- A singular and puzzling artifact -- A momentous change -- Words and sounds -- Parisian reactions -- Words across the Channel -- Antique Letters. Grey's box -- An opportune encounter -- The "true key" to Egyptian hieroglyphs -- The semantic trap avoided -- The reception of the Precis -- "Hold your laughter friends!" ; "In 1799 a French officer was clearing debris from a military installation when he discovered a stele bearing three scripts: ancient Greek hieroglyphic and a third that could not be definitively identified. This artifact which came to be known as the Rosetta Stone has traditionally played the starring role in the history of decipherment which has until now been understood as an instance of code-breaking a kind of Bletchley Park avant la lettre. In The Riddle of the Rosetta Buchwald and Josefowicz delve into a wide array of British and French sources as well as archival material to produce a comprehensive new history of the decipherment. More than a puzzle-solving exercise based on a single artifact the decipherment engaged with the era's social cultural and intellectual contexts. It grew in the midst of heated disputes about language historical evidence the status of the Bible the nature of polytheism and the importance of classical learning. Jean-Francois Champollion in France and his British rival the medical doctor and polymath Thomas Young approached the decipherment from different standpoints derived from their contrasting temperaments educational experiences and attitudes to antiquity. Imbued with reverence for Greek culture and raised a Quaker Young disdained Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing principally as a way to uncover new knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. To him the decipherment was akin to a challenge posed by a problem in mathematics or science. Champollion's altogether different motivations and attitude unfolded amidst the political chaos of Restoration France in fierce response to the intrigues of opposing scholars aligned with throne and altar. Unlike Young Champollion admired ancient Egypt and this sympathy coupled with his willingness to upend conventional wisdom about the enigmatic Egyptian signs freed him to travel a path down which Young refused to go. A remarkable intellectual adventure reaching from the filthy back streets of Georgian London to the hushed lecture rooms of the Institut de France from the forgotten byways of provincial France to the splendor of the Valley of the Kings this book reveals the decipherment in its full historical complexity" ; FINE/FINE Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2020 hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. __0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. x-0691200904Princeton Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 561 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. Princeton Univ Pr hardcover
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1989Best.-Nr. __0226078841Univ of Chicago Pr 1989. Hardcover. New. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. Univ of Chicago Pr hardcover
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1989Best.-Nr. E290526AHmug175473University of Chicago Press 1989-01-04. hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping. University of Chicago Press hardcover
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1989Best.-Nr. SKU1081171University of Chicago Press 1989-01-03. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. University of Chicago Press 1989. Hard cover first edition. Ex-library copy with the usual markings otherwise Good condition. University of Chicago Press hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. Q-0226078868University of Chicago Press 1989-03-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Chicago Press paperback
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1989Best.-Nr. HS-54Chicago Illinois: University of Chicago Press 1989. Comprehensive text presents a new history of the fundamental changes in optical theory at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the physics of that period ether replaced the particle theory; in mathematics waves replaced rays. Buchwald reconstructs the first empirically successful theory of partial reflection originated by Etienne Louis Malus. He refutes the view of Thomas Young as champion of the wave theory arguing that the wave theory became coherent and new only in the work of French physicist Augustin Fresnel. Buchwald further demonstrates that even scientists who disgarded the particle theory retained its mathematical apparatus preventing their proper use of the new techniques. 474 pgs. Illustrated. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. University of Chicago Press Paperback
2017Best.-Nr. x-3319584359Springer Verlag 2017. Hardcover. New. 310 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag hardcover
2018Best.-Nr. x-3319864084Springer 2018. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.73 inches. Springer paperback
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2010Best.-Nr. 0691145768_newPrinceton University Press 2010-05-09. Hardcover. New. 9x6x2. Princeton University Press hardcover
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2017Best.-Nr. BN505890OUP Oxford 2017. 2017. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics Oxford Handbooks The Oxford Handbook of the History of Physics Oxford Handbooks Buchwald Jed Z. and Robert Fox OUP Oxford unknown
