Adam Max Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 5831267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Max Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam Max |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN A M |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4881-3636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Medieval Haggadah
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination Epstein, Marc Michael, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 344 pp. Adam Cohen Adam Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 334–335. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872618 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Wonder in Shakespeare
More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy
N atural philosophers were fascinated by all sorts of strange occurrences, and they avidly collected those exotic naturalia and artificialia that had a whiff of the marvelous. Even Francis Bacon, who was a proponent of empirical thought and the thinker credited with devising the model for the first scientific society in England, believed that special attention should be paid to all sorts of marvels. Bacon claimed in his The Advancement of Learnin…
Technology and the Early Modern Self
A New “Perspective Glass”
The first telescopes were produced by Dutch spectacle makers around the turn of the seventeenth century. Three names are usually mentioned as possible inventors: Zacharias Janssen, his son Hans Janssen, and Hans Lippersheim. Legal documents drafted in Middleberg dated March 3, 1655, claim that Zacharias Janssen invented the telescope in Middleberg in the year 1590. The documents note that he produced two telescopes that were each sixteen inches l…
Englishing the Globe
This essay suggests that the Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s decision to name their reconstructed playing space the Globe in 1599 may have been a response to mounting English enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes that was stimulated by Emery Molyneux’s manufacture of the first pair of English globes in 1592. The essay surveys the history of early modern globe manufacture to offer some historical context for Molyneux’s cartographic work; it ana…
American Pharaoh
For more than two decades, Mayor Richard J. Daley ruled Chicago with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision went through his office and he was a major player in national politics too: Kennedy and Johnson owed their presidencies to his control of the Illinois vote, and he made sure they never forgot it! In a c…
Spiritual Seeing
Book Review| January 01 2002 Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art Adam Cohen Adam Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 211–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-211-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Adam Cohen; Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art. Common Knowledge 1 January 2002; 8 (1): 211–2…
American Pharaoh
For more than two decades, Mayor Richard J. Daley ruled Chicago with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision went through his office and he was a major player in national politics too: Kennedy and Johnson owed their presidencies to his control of the Illinois vote, and he made sure they never forgot it! In a c…
American Pharaoh
For more than two decades, Mayor Richard J. Daley ruled Chicago with an iron fist. The last of the big city bosses, Daley ran an unbeatable political machine that controlled over one million votes. From 1955 until his death in 1976, every decision went through his office and he was a major player in national politics too: Kennedy and Johnson owed their presidencies to his control of the Illinois vote, and he made sure they never forgot it! In a c…
Spiritual Seeing
Book Review| January 01 2002 Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art Adam Cohen Adam Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 211–212. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-211-a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Adam Cohen; Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art. Common Knowledge 1 January 2002; 8 (1): 211–2…
Englishing the Globe
This essay suggests that the Lord Chamberlain’s Men’s decision to name their reconstructed playing space the Globe in 1599 may have been a response to mounting English enthusiasm for terrestrial and celestial globes that was stimulated by Emery Molyneux’s manufacture of the first pair of English globes in 1592. The essay surveys the history of early modern globe manufacture to offer some historical context for Molyneux’s cartographic work; it ana…
Technology and the Early Modern Self
A New “Perspective Glass”
The first telescopes were produced by Dutch spectacle makers around the turn of the seventeenth century. Three names are usually mentioned as possible inventors: Zacharias Janssen, his son Hans Janssen, and Hans Lippersheim. Legal documents drafted in Middleberg dated March 3, 1655, claim that Zacharias Janssen invented the telescope in Middleberg in the year 1590. The documents note that he produced two telescopes that were each sixteen inches l…
Wonder in Shakespeare
More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy
N atural philosophers were fascinated by all sorts of strange occurrences, and they avidly collected those exotic naturalia and artificialia that had a whiff of the marvelous. Even Francis Bacon, who was a proponent of empirical thought and the thinker credited with devising the model for the first scientific society in England, believed that special attention should be paid to all sorts of marvels. Bacon claimed in his The Advancement of Learnin…
The Medieval Haggadah
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination Epstein, Marc Michael, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 344 pp. Adam Cohen Adam Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 334–335. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2872618 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
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