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Bankoku ryakusetsu

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Description: The author was considered a pioneer who introduced western science and technology into Japan. This work is based on scientific theories, using many maps and diagrams to show how the earth revolves around the sun on its own axis, the cause of night and day, and the four seasons.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Kansei 12? [1800?]
Call number: 751742
Creator: Shiba, Kōkan (1738?-1818)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 26 cm
Associated organization: Burndy Library,

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On Dar El Hikma; biographic materials; aborted projects; Diary as Sin excerpt, Compression & Purity contract, City Lights; The Audiographic as Data; Solar Fire on Earth; Secrets Prior to the Sun; On Crossing the Vermin Frontier (copy); At Night on the Sun fragment and research; General Scatterings and Comments.

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Earth no. 1

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Publisher: Earth Books & Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.) Related Content: "freedom" ; "Rimbaud be damned: I have withstood 99,000 seasons in hell and I still look down into this glass wondering, wondering" ; "Confessions of a man insane enough to live with beasts" (poem, short story, book review) Note: "C294" written in ms. in upper right corner of p. [1]. Related Content Author: Charles Bukowski ; Steve Richmond(?)

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Mensulae planetarum : [manuscript]

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Seven astrological number tables (magic squares) for Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, and the moon, respectively, each with explanations and commentary regarding the numerical symbolism of Hebrew letters. Followed on pp. 18-19 by brief discussions of the names of the earth and of the crescent symbol, with frequent use of astrological symbols and Hebrew letters; on pp. 20-21 a brief astrological text.

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Bankoku shinbunshi

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Edited by Michael Buckworth Bailey the British consular chaplain in Yokohama. This was one of the earliest newspapers in Japan and provided a mixture of news, history, advertisements and information about western culture for a Japanese audience.

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Big Creek - Mammoth Pool - Forms for dental concrete on east abutment just downstream of the axis

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Big Creek - Mammoth Pool - Forms for dental concrete on east abutment just downstream of the axis.

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A Meteorological Dyary and Prognostication for this present yeare of our Lord: handwritten manuscript

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The Almanac begins with some 'Vulgar Notes of ye yeare after the Accompte' and a 'Generall Judgement vpon the constitution of the 4 Seasons', including notes on the eclipses of the moon, providing exact times, positions, degrees of eclipse, etc. (ff. 3-8). There then follows (ff. 9-20) a series of detailed tables of month-by-month and day-by-day predictions, including the positions of the sun and moon, 'Aspectes between the Planets', 'Parallelisme of ye Planets and fixeds', 'Figures of the Quarterly Lunations','...inclination of the Quarter', and a prediction on the state of the weather for every day of the year, with such comments as 'Close and suspicious' and 'A mixt vicissitude of severitie and moysture'.

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Bankoku ryakusetsu

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