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A practical treatise on railways, explaining their construction and management ... being the articl…
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Peter Lecount |
This book is about trains and all aspects of railroad operations in Britain rather than America, but is a useful guide to railroad operations as they were in the 1830s.
Chapter headings are:
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L'homme machine
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Bernard A. Laska,Julien Offray de La Mettrie |
Man a Machine (French: L'homme Machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1748. In this work, La… |
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Self-knowledge
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John Mason |
published 1813. covered in brown (leather or paper?) Hardbound, abt 51/2 by 31/2" written in old fashioned type; f's look like s's |
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On the composition of images, signs & ideas
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Giordano Bruno |
With typical magniloquent aplomb, Bruno delivers what can only be described as a system of Hermetic semiotics with a barrage of bizarre components ranging from Hellenistic astrology to Enochian table… |
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