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1 treatise
'tri:tiz, ]( American) -s(a long, detailed, formal piece of writing on some subject: He wrote a treatise on methods of education.) avhandlingavhandlingsubst. \/ˈtriːtɪz\/, \/ˈtriːtɪs\/avhandlingtreatise upon avhandling om -
2 Richard of Wallingford, Abbot
SUBJECT AREA: Horology[br]b. 1291/2 Wallingford, Englandd. 23 May 1336 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England[br]English cleric, mathematician and astronomer who produced the earliest mechanical clock of which there is detailed knowledge.[br]Richard, the son of a blacksmith, was adopted by the Prior of Wallingford when his father died and educated at Oxford. He then joined the monastery at St Albans and was ordained as a priest in 1317. After a further period at Oxford studying mathematics and astronomy he returned to St Albans as Abbot in 1327. Shortly after he had been elected Abbot he started work on a very elaborate astronomical clock. The escapement and the striking mechanism of this clock were unusual. The former was a variation on the verge escapement, and the hour striking (up to twenty-four) was controlled by a series of pins laid out in a helical pattern on a drum. However, timekeeping was of secondary importance as the main purpose of the clock was to show the motion of the Sun, Moon and planets (the details of the planet mechanism are lost) and to demonstrate eclipses. This was achieved in a very precise manner by a series of ingenious mechanisms, such as the elliptical wheel that was used to derive the variable motion of the sun.Richard died of leprosy, which he had contracted during a visit to obtain papal confirmation of his appointment, and the clock was completed after his death. The last recorded reference to it was made by John Leyland, shortly before the dissolution of the monasteries. It is now known only from incomplete manuscript copies of Richard's treatise. A modern reconstruction has been made based upon J.D.North's interpretation of the manuscript.[br]BibliographyFor the drafts of Richard's Treatise on the Clock, with translation and commentary, see J.D.North, 1976, Richard of Wallingford, 3 vols, Oxford.Further ReadingSee J.D.North's definitive work above: for biographical information see Vol. 2, pp. 1–16. Most of the shorter accounts appeared before the publication of North's treatise and are therefore of more limited use.G.White, 1978, "Evolution of the epicyclic gear—part 2", Chartered Mechanical Engineer (April): 85–8 (an account of Richard's use of epicyclic gearing).DVBiographical history of technology > Richard of Wallingford, Abbot
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3 commentary
noun2) (Radio, Telev.)[live or running] commentary — Live-Reportage, die
* * *plural - commentaries; noun ((also running commentary) a series of broadcast comments by a reporter at a ceremony, sports event etc.) der Kommentar* * *com·men·tary[ˈkɒmentəri, AM ˈkɑ:mənteri]he always gives a running \commentary on what's happening er muss dauernd zu allem seinen Senf dazugeben fampolitical/literary \commentary politischer/literarischer Kommentarto provide \commentary Bericht erstatten* * *['kɒməntərI]nKommentar m (on zu)he used to do commentaries on football matches — früher war er Reporter bei Fußballspielen
* * *1. Kommentar m (on, upon zu Texten etc):a commentary on the Bible ein Bibelkommentar2. Kommentar m, erläuternder Bericht:radio commentary Rundfunkkommentar;4. pl Kommentare pl, tagebuchartige Bemerkungen pl, Denkschriften pl* * *noun2) (Radio, Telev.)[live or running] commentary — Live-Reportage, die
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4 Jia Sixie (Chia Ssu-Hsieh)
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. sixth century AD Chinad. sixth century AD China[br]Chinese writer on agricultural practice.[br]Jia Sixie was the author of the Qi Min Yao Shu (Chhi Min Yao Shu), the earliest complete Chinese agricultural treatise to have survived. The survey quotes from over 160 other texts and the author himself relates how he collected from a wide range of sources, including folk songs and the anecdotes of old men. Little is known of Jia Sixie. It is assumed that he was a middle-ranking official and that his agricultural experience derives from his own work in the Shantung region. In addition to husbandry information, the treatise deals with the problems of running an agricultural estate. Details of experiments are also given, indicating that the text may have been aimed more at the estate owner than the peasant farmer. Culinary matters are also commented upon. Discussions of the range of crops available to the Chinese farmer, and of the-rotational practices implemented to make best use of those crops, give a clear indication that a much higher productivity was being achieved than in Europe at that time or for almost another thousand years. Crop diversity and rotations, as well as technologies such as green manuring and implements such as rollers and seed-drills, were combined to achieve these substantial yields.[br]Further ReadingF.Bray, vol. VI.2 of J.Needham (ed.), Science and Civilisation in China (provides a comprehensive discussion on Chinese agricultural practice, and an early chapter gives details of her sources).APBiographical history of technology > Jia Sixie (Chia Ssu-Hsieh)
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5 discourse
tr['dɪskɔːs]1 formal use (spoken - speech) discurso; (- discussion) discusión nombre femenino, debate nombre masculino; (written) disertación nombre femenino2 SMALLLINGUISTICS/SMALL discurso1 disertar (on/upon, sobre)discourse ['dɪs.kors] n1) talk: conversación f2) speech, treatise: discurso m, tratado mn.• discurso s.m.• disertación s.f.• habla s.f.v.• discurrir v.• disertar v.'dɪskɔːrs, 'dɪskɔːsnoun (frml)a) c ( dissertation) disertación fb) u ( talk) conversación f1. N['dɪskɔːs]1) (=talk) conversación f, plática f (LAm)2) (=essay) tratado m3) (Ling) discurso m2.VI [dɪs'kɔːs]3.CPD ['dɪskɔːs]discourse analysis N — análisis m inv del discurso
* * *['dɪskɔːrs, 'dɪskɔːs]noun (frml)a) c ( dissertation) disertación fb) u ( talk) conversación f -
6 book
1. n глава, том, книга2. n библияthe Good Book — библия; священное писание
3. n сброшюрованные листы чистой или разграфлённой бумаги; книга4. n запись заключаемых париto make a book on the Derby — записать пари, заключённые на скачках в Дерби
5. n либретто6. n карт. шесть первых взяток одной из сторонto punish without book — наказывать, не имея на то права
by the book — по правилам, как это обычно делается
to speak like the book — говорить очень авторитетно; быть прекрасно знакомым
7. a относящийся к книгам8. a книжныйbook section — книжная тетрадь, тетрадь книжного блока
9. a записанный в конторской книгеthe net book profit is 1 million — чистая прибыль, согласно конторским книгам, составляет 1 миллион
a limp edition of a book — книга, вышедшая в мягкой обложке
10. v заносить в книгу; записывать, регистрировать; оформлятьI always book the titles of the books lent — я всегда записываю, кому какую книгу дала почитать
11. v заказывать заранее; бронировать, брать билет12. v принимать заказы13. v оплатить перевозку багажа14. v выписать счётbook out — выписаться из гостиницы; заплатить по счёту
15. v ангажировать16. v разг. приглашать; договариваться17. v брать на заметку; завести дело18. v штрафовать19. v разг. поймать с поличнымif the teacher sees your absence you are booked — если учитель заметит твоё отсутствие, ты попался
20. v спорт. записывать номер или имя игрока, нарушившего правила; штрафоватьСинонимический ряд:1. Bible (noun) Bible; Holy Writ; Sacred Writ; Scripture2. guidebook (noun) guidebook; handbook; manual3. novel (noun) novel; story4. publication (noun) album; edition; primer; publication; reader; reference work; speller; text; textbook; tome; treatise; volume; work5. register (noun) account; blotter; ledger; list; log; loose-leaf; notebook; pad; record; register; roster6. arrange (verb) arrange; schedule; time7. engage (verb) bespeak; engage; pre-empt; preengage; reserve8. list (verb) catalog; catalogue; enrol; enroll; inscribe; listАнтонимический ряд: -
7 discourse
1. n книжн. лекция, речь, слово2. n книжн. трактат, рассуждение3. n книжн. книжн. разговор, беседа4. n лингв. дискурс, сверхфразовые единства5. n лингв. высказывание6. v книжн. ораторствовать, произносить речи7. v книжн. писать трактат8. v книжн. разговаривать, вести беседуСинонимический ряд:1. colloquy (noun) colloquy; conversation; discussion2. lecture (noun) lecture; oration; sermon3. memoir (noun) disquisition; dissertation; memoir; monograph; monography; study; thesis; tractate; treatise4. talk (noun) chat; dialogue; speaking; speech; talk; utterance; verbalisation; verbalization; voice5. act (verb) act; do; enact; impersonate; perform; personate; play; playact6. argue (verb) argue; confer; debate; discuss7. descant (verb) descant; dilate; dilate on; dilate upon; dissert; dissertate; expatiate; lecture; pontificate; sermonise; sermonize8. speak (verb) chat; converse; speak; talk; treat -
8 theme
1. n тема; предмет2. n основная мысль; характерная черта3. n школ. сочинение на заданную тему4. n грам. основа5. n радио позывные6. n ист. провинция Византийской империи7. n положение звёзд в момент рождения человекаСинонимический ряд:1. essay (noun) article; composition; dissertation; essay; paper; treatise2. melody (noun) leitmotif; melody; motif; song; strain3. topic (noun) argument; focus; head; ideas; issue; matter; moral; motive; point; proposition; subject; subject matter; text; thesis; topic -
9 Pickard, James
SUBJECT AREA: Steam and internal combustion engines[br]fl. c. 1780 Birmingham, England[br]English patentee of the application of the crank to steam engines.[br]James Pickard, the Birmingham button maker, also owned a flour mill at Snow Hill, in 1780, where Matthew Wasborough installed one of his rotative engines with ratchet gear and a flywheel. In August 1780, Pickard obtained a patent (no. 1263) for an application to make a rotative engine with a crank as well as gearwheels, one of which was weighted to help return the piston in the atmospheric cylinder during the dead stroke and overcome the dead centres of the crank. Wasborough's flywheel made the counterweight unnecessary, and engines were built with this and Pickard's crank. Several Birmingham business people seem to have been involved in the patent, and William Chapman of Newcastle upon Tyne was assigned the sole rights of erecting engines on the Wasborough-Pickard system in the counties of Northumberland, Durham and York. Wasborough was building engines in the south until his death the following year. The patentees tried to bargain with Boulton \& Watt to exchange the use of the crank for that of the separate condenser, but Boulton \& Watt would not agree, probably because James Watt claimed that one of his workers had stolen the idea of the crank and divulged it to Pickard. To avoid infringing Pickard's patent, Watt patented his sun-and-planet motion for his rotative engines.[br]BibliographyAugust 1780, British patent no. 1,263 (rotative engine with crank and gearwheels).Further ReadingJ.Farey, 1827, A Treatise on the Steam Engine, Historical, Practical and Descriptive, reprinted 1971, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles (contains an account of Pickard's crank). R.L.Hills, 1989, Power from Steam. A History of the Stationary Steam Engine, Cambridge University Press (provides an account of Pickard's crank).R.A.Buchanan, 1978–9, "Steam and the engineering community in the eighteenth century", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 ("Thomas Newcomen. A commemorative symposium") (provides details about the development of his engine).RLH -
10 Rondelet, Jean-Baptiste
[br]b. 1734 Lyons, France d. 1829[br]French architect particularly interested in the scientific and mathematical basis of architectural structure, and who at an early date introduced reinforced concrete into supporting piers in his buildings.[br]From 1795 Rondelet was Professor at the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics and while there was responsible for a major treatise on building construction: this was his Traité théorique et pratique de l'art de bâtir, published in four volumes in 1802–17. From 1806 he taught at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, which was soon afterwards merged with the Ecole Polytechnique. It was when Rondelet took over the work of com-pleting the Panthéon in Paris, after the death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, that he had the opportunity of putting some of his particular structural ideas into practice. In 1755 the King had appointed Soufflot architect of the great new church to be dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Sainte Geneviève. In this neo-classical structure based upon Greek cross plan, Soufflot intended four slender piers, each encased in three engaged columns, to support the pendentives for the dome to rise over the crossing. It was a fine and elegant building on a large scale, but by the early nineteenth century, when the church had become a pantheon, cracks were appearing in the masonry. When Rondelet succeeded as architect after Soufflot's death, he strengthened and enlarged the piers, employing a faced concrete structure reinforced with metal. He used a metalreinforced mortar with rubble aggregate.[br]BibliographyAn article by Rondelet appears in: 1989, Le Panthéon: Symbole des Révolutions, pp. 308–10 (book of the Exhibition at the Hôtel de Sully, Paris), ed. Picard, Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites en France.Further ReadingM.N.Mathuset-Bandouin, 1980, "Biographie de Jean Rondelet", Soufflot et son temps, Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites en France, 155ö7.DYBiographical history of technology > Rondelet, Jean-Baptiste
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11 Sensations
Nothing is more indisputable than the existence of our sensations. Thus, in order to prove that they are the principle of all our knowledge, it suffices to show that they can be.... Why suppose that we have purely intellectual notions at the outset if all we need do in order to form them is to reflect upon our sensations? (D'Alembert, 1963, p. 7)[S]upposing we have got the conception of hardness, how come we by the belief of it? Is it self-evident, from comparing the ideas, that such a sensation could not be felt unless such a quality of bodies existed? No. Can it be proved by probability or certain arguments? No. Have we got this belief then by tradition, by education, or by experience? No.... Shall we then throw off this belief, as having no foundation in reason? Alas! it is not in our power; it triumphs over reason, and laughs at all the arguments of a philosopher. Even the author of the "Treatise of Human Nature," though he saw no reason for this belief... could hardly conquer it in his speculative and solitary moments; at other times he fairly yielded to it, and confesses that he found himself under a necessity to do so. (Reid, 1970, p. 157)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Sensations
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