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Light, color and life for the world
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Describes the importance of plankton in the ocean's food chain, its importance to man, and the danger posed to it by pollution
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Briefly discusses light as one form of energy and describes the kinds of light, its composition, and the uses to which man has put it.
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Simple experiments and observations reveal the physical properties of light.
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Manuscripts
The text is divided into three parts: Part I (pages 1-36) has five chapters on the methods of diagnosis and treatment; Part II (pages 37-158), titled "Fabrica receptorum", explains how to make specific medicines; and Part III (pages 159-1490), titled "Selectus materiae medicae experimentalis" includes an extensive collection of recipes and decriptions of ailments organized alphabetically. Text includes a foreward in which Steigendesch gives a summary of the history of medicine and the relationship his family had with medicine. On pages 1491-1557 is included a list of all the medications described in this treatise, mostly drawn from the Pharmacopoea Wirtenbergica and dated 1785 in a chronogram. Also includes a [36] page index at end.
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"Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body."--Jacket.
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Image of an advertisement for the New York Sunday World featuring a man standing on a bridge or ferry with a copy of The World tucked under his arm as he looks across the water towards the city; a bright light shines from a building saying "8 funny pages".
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