author: william e burns

Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present

... astrology . One was a fake edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus , which spread subversive rumors in Germany ... Astrology ; Nostradamus ; Politics Further Reading Martin J. Manning Cavendish , Richard , and Brian Innes , eds . 1997 ...

Speeches in World History

... Les Misérables. With his works' emphasis on the emotional and spiritual aspects of life and the freedom of the ... my son—it is myself—it is I! I, who for these last twenty-five years have opposed capital punishment—have contended for the ...

They Believed That?: A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World

... Cam- bridge University Press. Green, Richard Firth. 2016. Elf Queens and ... Cam- bridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press. Harline, Craig. 2003. Miracles at ... Yokai Culture: Monsters, Ghosts and Outsiders in Japanese History ...

Astrology through History: Interpreting the Stars from Ancient Mesopotamia to the Present

... Dane Rudhyar: His Music, Thought, and Art. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. Rudhyar, Dane. 1969. Astrological Timing. New York: Harper Colophon. Rudhyar, Dane. 1976. Astrology and the Modern Psyche. Vancouver, WA: CRCS ...

Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia

... Enlightenment : An Interpretation , Volume II : The Science of Freedom . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1969 . Gelbart , Nina Rattner . The King's Midwife : A History and Mystery of Madame du Coudray . Berkeley : University of California ...

The Enlightenment: History, Documents, and Key Questions

... Enlightenment, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Baron de Montesquieu, and Immanuel ... active participants in the great political, ethical, and aesthetic debates ... salon hostesses whose eloquence shaped many aspects of French culture ...

Science and Technology in World History [2 volumes]: [2 volumes]

... Fletcher, David. Tanks and Trenches: First Hand Accounts of Tank Warfare in the First World War. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 1996. Lee, T. W. Military Technologies of the World. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008. Wright ...

Witch Hunts in Europe and America: An Encyclopedia

... witch at Salem , and her narrative was one of the most influen- tial in ... March 1 , she confessed to dealing with the devil and tormenting the girls ... hunt both outside of Salem , and adding the possibility of male witches and witches ...

The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia

... ancient Greek and Roman calendars , awaited solution . Biblical , rabbinical , and humanistic learning as well as ... calendars and temporal problems . The Julian calendar widely used in the West had become increasingly out of ...

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