The First Book of the Earth by Opal Irene Sevrey

The First Book of the Earth by Opal Irene Sevrey

The lever appears to be a very simple object, a tool used since ancient times for the most primitive of tasks: to lift and to balance. Why, then, were prominent intellectuals active around 1800 in areas as diverse as science, philosophy, and literature inspired to think and write about levers?

In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.

Sevrey, Opal Irene: - Irene Sevrey was born in Michigan and was a public school teacher. She served in WW II in the Army Air Corps as a WAC.

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ISBN 13	9780692090718
ISBN 10	0692090711
Title	The First Book of the Earth
Author	Opal Irene Sevrey
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Living Library Press
Year published	2018-03-20
Number of pages	70
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