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Antique Essays of Michel de Montaigne in French, 1659, 17th Century ( 1600s )!!!1659 Essays of Michel de Montaigne in French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references,
1659 Essays of Michel de Montaigne in French Renaissance Philosophy Humanism“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
First published in 1580, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne were a collection of essays and writings on a variety of topics and content. Montaigne was rather decisive in his rhetoric and used various Ancient Greek, Latin, and Italian texts as examples and references, such as Lucretius and Plutarch quotations. Montaigne himself stated that the goal of his essays was to describe man with ‘utter frankness and honesty.’ According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller, "the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence". Montaigne sought to break man down into his basic features, which, at the time, was extreme volatility. He wrote on marriage being an absolute necessity for raising children, but he also quoted, in the ‘Essays,’ that “Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out."
MONTAIGNE, Michel de
Les essais de Michel, seigneur de Montaigne
A Amsterdam, Chez Anthoine Michiels, Libraire, 1659.
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I love VSI on Kindle
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The thing is they take a long time to read because of the look up feature. It's like reading a book in the Library of Congress.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2020
★★★★★ 5
There are few who are capable of telling the story ...
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There are few who are capable of telling the story of plate techtonics including critical details. Peter Molnar is one of those chosen few who can deliver such a story succinctly and precisely.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Very nice, but very short, book on the subject.
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This is a very nice, but very short, book on the subject. I learned quite a bit and enough to delve into structural geology and related subjects.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2015
★★★★★ 4
Excellent 120 pages book on a complex subject.
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I thought this was an excellent 120 pages book on a complex subject. It discusses a variety of subjects besides the title of plate tectonics and which are related to it: continental drift, oceanic seafloor spreading, fracture zones, subduction of tectonic plate edges, faulting, the creation of mountains and plateaus, earthquakes, volcanism, oceanic magnetic anomalies, and the locations of concentrated metallic ores. The text is accompanied by almost 40 sketches and diagrams elaborating on the discussions provided in the text.
The book also introduces the grand concepts of Earth geology such as the mantle, lithosphere, and asthenosphere. It also provides a short history of the development of the concept of plate tectonics.
Finally, the book provides specific detailed descriptions of the formation of major mountain ranges and plateaus such as the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau, Tien Shan, the Tarim Basin, the movement of Eastern Asia, the Andes, and the western US mountain ranges. It also gives a short description of the movement of India from the eastern edge of the African Plate to the Eurasian Plate over the past 90+ million years.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2023
★★★★★ 2
Books like this have to be leavened with a human dimension ...
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This book is too technical for people who are new to the subject of plate tectonics. In fact, I think it is fair to say that if you can understand this book you don't need to read it but if you need to read it you won't understand it. Books like this have to be leavened with a human dimension in the form of stories about people. This book has such stories but they are very brief and tend to get burried under the tecnical detail. There are other books in the "A Very Short Introduction" series which give far more accessible introductions to plate tectonic (e.g. "Earth Science: A Very Short Introduction"). I would suggest that anyone who was entirely new to the subject should read one of them instead.
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