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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name.The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

• Name Meaning and Origin
• Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
• Family Lifestyles
• Military Service History
• Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1895Original Publisher: Macmillan and Co.Subjects: EgyptEgypt History Greco-Roman period, B.C. 332-A.D. 640Ptolemies, Kings of EgyptHistory / Ancient / EgyptHistory / Middle East / EgyptJuvenile Nonfiction / History / Middle EastNotes: This is an OCR reprint of the original rare book. There may be typos or missing text and there are no illustrations.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Newly Translated from the Greek Paraphrase of Proclus with a Preface, Explanatory Notes and an Appendix Containing Extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy together with A Short Notice of Mr. Ranger's Zodiacal Planisphere and an Explanatory Plate. Everything you could possibly hope to discover about the occult proficiency of astrology is contained in this rare and scarce book. "The whole doctrine of astrology is commonly understood to have been completely overturned. ... Read more

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New settlement, relocation and migration have been part of human life right from the beginning. It is an essential ingredient of socio-economic life in antiquity and in the modern world. This book tells the history of new cities and settlement under the Ptolemies (332 to 30 BC). The Ptolemies ruled Egypt, numerous Aegean Islands, large stretches of the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts for three centuries. They up-rooted, transferred, replanted and attracted people to new and old settlements throughout their realm. Departing from the traditional emphasis on Egypt only, or outside Egypt only, and bridging the scholarly divides between Egyptologists, Classicists, Archaeologists and Geographers, this study offers an innovative framework for understanding the structure of and processes underlying new Ptolemaic settlement. By assessing topics such as bilingual toponyms, spatial settlement networks and the rural impact of new foundations, population size, urban differentiation, politics and programmes that facilitated new settllement, the author draws the first comprehensive and multivariant picture of the basis for Ptolemaic power: land, people and cities. ... Read more

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I'm astonished by the political correctness of the main editorial review at the top of this page. It suggests that the book was written to be a mirror on the modern day, that we have much to learn from ancient mesoamerican culture.

Make no mistake, this is an excellent book. But what it really shows us is the depths of horror and depravity that was pre-conquest mesoamerican culture. The Aztecs were monsters, but their only invention was in the refining of the horrors the Mayans, whom they conquered from within.

The author provides details of the depravity of the Aztecs. This is not a book for the squeamish.

One of the key points of this book is that all the client peoples of the Aztecs hated the Aztecs so much that the moment a new power (the Spanish) arrived, the subject people flocked to them because they simply could not imagine any other situation that could be worse than life under the Aztecs. And no, I'm not an apologist for the Spanish--neither am I willing to excuse the brutal, homicidal native culture that thankfully is gone now.

Fascinating.
This is a brilliant book. I've re-read it many times. A previous reviewer wrote that he did a net search on the author and discovered he was a "70's guru." Not so. His father was the weird one. His son, the author of this book, is a respected scholar.

A keen insight into Mesoamerican culture
It isn't often that you read a book that so deftly communicates the cosmic framework of an ancient culture. However, it is obvious that Tompkins' take on the archeological evidence of ritual and religion left by the Olmecs, Aztecs and Mayans is written within the framework of modern culture. Of course, any academic will translate an ancienct culture of which he has no first hand knowledge via his own ideologies, so it is silly to critique it, as the other reviewer has, in such a way. This book is a refreshing look at religion and spirituality in mesoameria, and is a good resource for anyone seeking knowledge about shamanism as well.

The Fall as interpreted by Shirley McClown
I am half way from completing this book and I can not read any further. I began to notice a nagging sense of moral superiority from the author that I found objectionable. The author constantly compares the Mayas and the Aztecs to other shamanistic cultures and each time points out how the shamanistic society was obviously superior. I thought it was odd early on when he routinely quoted from books that discussed Eskimo and Sioux shamans. I was confused as to what this had to do with Mesoamerican religion and culture. Granted they are all Native Americans, but this book claimed to concern itself only with Mesoamerica. He also spent much of the book expressing how the mistake of the Mesoamericans was in their building of cities, that this represented a Fall from the Eden of the shamanistic society. After becoming fed up with this tripe I did a search online for the author and I learned that according to one description he was "one of the most colorful gurus of the '70s' New Age movement". I finally fully comprehended why I hated this book so much. ... Read more

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This book is a work of geography, astronomy and artwork of historical significance. Ptolemy was cartographer of the 2nd Century, and this work represent a scientific compilation of the body of western civilization's knowledge of the geography of the earth at that point in time.He regarded the earth as the center of the universe and locations on the map were derived via astronomy.This is a large, handsome "coffee table" display book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who ruled Egypt in the middle of the third century B.C.E., Alexandria became the brilliant multicultural capital of the Greek world. Theocritus's poem in praise of Philadelphus--at once a Greek king and an Egyptian pharaoh--is the only extended poetic tribute to this extraordinary ruler that survives. Combining the Greek text, an English translation, a full line-by-line commentary, and extensive introductory studies of the poem's historical and literary context, this volume also offers a wide-ranging and far-reaching consideration of the workings and representation of poetic patronage in the Ptolemaic age. In particular, the book explores the subtle and complex links among Theocritus's poem, modes of praise drawn from both Greek and Egyptian traditions, and the subsequent flowering of Latin poetry in the Augustan age.

As the first detailed account of this important poem to show how Theocritus might have drawn on the pharaonic traditions of Egypt as well as earlier Greek poetry, this book affords unique insight into how praise poetry for Ptolemy and his wife may have helped to negotiate the adaptation of Greek culture that changed conditions of the new Hellenistic world. Invaluable for its clear translation and its commentary on genre, dialect, diction, and historical reference in relation to Theocritus's Encomium, the book is also significant for what it reveals about the poem's cultural and social contexts and about Theocritus' devices for addressing his several readerships. ... Read more

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1902 edition by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., London. ... Read more

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Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's "Harmonics". The treatise begins with Ptolemy's study of pitches and intervals, for which he extracts both an idealized musical scale and a new acoustical tool. After discussing modulation, he expands his horizons by applying musical intervals to the human soul and celestial bodies, ultimately describing a cosmic harmony. The English translation seeks to reproduce Ptolemy's style faithfully and includes all the charts surviving in the manuscript tradition. The commentary offers a full exegesis of the text, loci paralleli, and citations of modern scholarly sources. ... Read more

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Ptolemy Harmonics
Harmonics is not the science of music, and it is not the ability of the human ear to hear harmonics. Harmonics is a function of nature that allows humans to perceive, accept, digest, feel, emote, intuit, study, compute, hypothesize, and theorize the differences between highness and lowness in sounds, whether they are heard (or hearable) or not. Perception functions to differentiate things, among them sounds, and of sounds by how much they differ in highness and lowness, this highness being anywhere within the edge of the then-known, (by today's standard) microscopic universe at the end of Saturn's nested shell, the lowness being perhapsthe 85:84 diesis, which Ptolemy so carefully avoids, played on a small lyre by a mere mortal musicologist here on earth. Harmonics begins when the proverbial tree falls in the forest and makes the air be beaten, and it ends when that abused bit of our atmosphere enters our ears, filters to the seat of reason, concords with the similarly calculable notes within us and in the distant heavens, and gives us pleasure in knowing that there is in the huge, sometimes audible, sometimes visible universe, a unified, predictable, divinely ordained order. ... Read more

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The Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold, published in 1551, were the firstset of astronomical tables to use the Copernican model of the solar system.Reinhold left a detailed account of his derivation of the parameters used inthese tables in his "Commentarius in opus Revolutionum Copernici". The presentwork is based on an analysis of this unpublished manuscript, which wasrediscovered early in this century.In particular, this work analyses the geocentric distances of the sun andmoon as found in Ptolemy's Almagest, in both the manuscript version andthe Nuremberg edition of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus, in Reinhold'scommentary on the Almagest, and in Reinhold's commentary on this sectionof De Revolutionibus. Chapter one contains a detailed analysis of thelunar distance, and chapter two concerns the apparent diameters of the sun,moon and shadow. The Ptolemaic method, which is the model for Copernicus andReinhold, requires the determination of these quantities as a preliminary tothe calculation of the solar distance, which is treated in chapter three. Thefourth chapter is a brief analysis of the relative magnitudes of the sun, moonand earth, which Ptolemy, Copernicus and Reinhold discuss after they havereached values of the lunar and solar distances. The final chapter concerns anapplication of the distances - the solar and lunar parallaxes and diameters. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Publisher: Kjøbenhavn, H. HagerupPublication date: 1917Subjects: Ptolemy, fl. 2nd centEurope, Northern -- Historical geography MapsNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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THIS 16 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, by Samuel Sharpe. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591980. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more