The Call of the Twentieth Century

The twentieth century

✍ Dr Arthur K. Asbury; Charles D. Aring 📂 Article 📅 1992 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 275 KB

✍ Verne, Jules;Howard, Richard 📂 Fiction 📅 1863 🏛 Del Rey 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB 👁 2 views

THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, neve

Science in the twentieth century

✍ Stephanie H. Kenen 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 206 KB

Myrtle McGraw was a creative developmental scientist of the 1930s and 1940s whose work we now are beginning to fully appreciate. She had been a teenager in Alabama when she began writing to John Dewey, already a world-class philosopher, in 1914. McGraw and Dewey struck up a father -daughter friendsh

Paris in the Twentieth Century

✍ Jules Verne 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🌐 English ⚖ 205 KB 👁 2 views

Written in 1863 but first published only in 1994, about a young man who lives in a technologically advanced, but culturally backwards future. Often referred to as Verne's lost novel, the work, set in August 1960, paints a grim, dystopian view of the future. Many of Verne's predictions are remarkably

Paris in the Twentieth Century

✍ Jules Verne; Richard Howard 📂 Fiction 📅 1994;1997 🏛 Del Rey/Ballantine Books 🌐 English ⚖ 204 KB 👁 2 views

THE LITERARY DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY In 1863 Jules Verne, famed author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days, wrote a novel that his literary agent deemed too farfetched to be published. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson found the handwritten, neve

Franklin and the twentieth century

✍ Bernard Cohen 📂 Article 📅 1956 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 758 KB

A half century ago the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce explored canons of greatness, wondering whether there might be some rule or set of rules to tell who were the century's great men. Definitions of greatness, he felt, were only like rules of grammar ; these do not '(render an expression bad En