Naxos AudioBooks – The Diary of Samuel Pepys, unabridged
The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history. Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the Navy Office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes. This Naxos AudioBooks production is the world premiere recording of the diary in its entirety. It has been divided into three volumes.
This amazing diary has been recorded for the first in its entirety, using the definitive text edited after years of intense scholarship, and authorized by the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Leighton Pugh recorded The Diary of Samuel Pepys with recording engineer Ross Burman over 40 days at the studios of the RNIB in London. The whole work runs for 115 hours. It is released by Naxos AudioBooks in 3 volumes, 1660-1663, 1664-1666, 1667-1669, with each volume set in context by David Timson. It is available on CD and to download.
Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews.
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Recorded at RNIB Camden Talking Books Studios, London.
‘Harwich’ portrait of Pepys © Master and Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Find out more at magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys
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Samuel Pepys, Sex and the Stuarts
Uncover the salacious side of Stuart London, from the many mistresses of King Charles II to Samuel Pepys's notorious affairs.
Miniature of Barbara Villiers, Portrait of Barbara Villiers and Portrait of Charles II courtesy of Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016
Portrait of Nell Gwynn courtesy of the Army and Navy Club
The Diary of Samuel Pepys and Prints of Nell Gwynn courtesy of The Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge
1960s CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PROMOTIONAL FILM CAVENDISH LABORATORY 64244
Presented by the British Travel Association (:18) this 1960s film is narrated by Michael Redgrave (:25). Cambridge University is the focal point (2:25) and it was established seven centuries ago. At the Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford had first spilt the atom (2:56). A radio telescope is depicted which may be able to provide a look into the frontiers of space (3:25). Among the medieval walls are cathode ray tubes (3:41). An electron microscope (4:27) is also shown and this was used to find the vaccine for polio. Research is conducted in the Cambridge Electronics Factory (4:52). A television camera was constructed to look into the atom (5:13). This campus dates back to 1284 (5:32) and names such as Frank Whittle, Henry Cavendish, and Lord Kelvin studied here (5:38). King’s College (7:30) had been founded by Henry the 6th and the Chapel was completed by Henry the 8th (7:50). Famed poets such as Grace, Bryon, and Wordsworth studied here as well (9:08). As viewed from a boat on the river, the Bridge of Science is seen (9:26). Magdalene College contains the library of Samuel Pepys (10:52). Students are seen rehearsing a play by Shakespeare (11:14). The first to teach Greek in Cambridge was Erasmus (11:57). A sherry party on the college lawn is shown (14:28) as well as one of the many neighboring hotels (14:51). The May races (15:03), which are held in June are to decide which of the colleges will be the champion of the river annually. These are followed by the May ball (15:50) and a trip through the river for breakfast in the village of Grantchester (17:08). Seen on a war memorial churchyard is Rupert Brooke’s name (18:28). Graduation ceremonies end the year (19:07) as black gowned students meet at the Senate House. The Vice Chancellor of the University is seen entering the house and will pronounce the students graduates (19:38). The film draws to a close and the color of the film had been provided by Technicolor (21:12).
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Benediction - Cesare Morelli (Pepys the Musician)
Benediction (MS 2591, Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge) is written by Cesare Morelli for Samuel Pepys. The original setting for this recording has been used by permission of the Pepys Library.
The peace of God which passeth all understanding
keepe your hearts and mindsin the knowledge and love of Godand of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord
and the blessing of God Almighty
the Father the Son and the holy Ghost
be amongst you and remaine with you always.
A setting of a biblical text from Philippians.
Recorded live in St Olave’s Church, Hart Street, London, at a public concert held on Wednesday 15 February 2017, as part of the BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘Pepys the Musician’, first broadcast on Tuesday 4 April 2017, presented by Lucie Skeaping and produced by Anna Scott-Brown.
Performers:
Voice - David Ireland
Baroque guitar - Toby Carr
Theorbo - James Bramley
Recorded and mastered by Adam Fowler, Overtone Productions.
Music edited by Dionysios Kyropoulos and published by Green Man Press: Cesare Morelli, Eight Songs for Samuel Pepys: Light, Grave and Sacred, ed. Dionysios Kyropoulos, London: Green Man Press, 2014.
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'The Works Of William Perkins' Volume 4
'Thomas Manton's Complete Works' Volume 5
'William Perkins' biography by Joel Beeke & Stephen Yuille
'The Spiritual Brotherhood: Cambridge Puritans and the Nature of Christian Piety' by Paul R. Schaefer Jr.
'Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self' biography by Claire Tomalin
'The Shorter Pepys' Selected And Edited By Robert Latham
'The Diary Of Samuel Pepys' Two Volumes Transcribed By The Rev. Mynors Bright
'Aubrey's Brief Lives' Edited By Oliver Lawson Dick
'John Aubrey, My Own Life' biography by Ruth Scurr
'Oliver Cromwell And The Rule Of The Puritans In England' by Sir Charles Firth
'Brothers Of The Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street' biography by Norma Clarke
Francis Bacon: The Temper Of A Man' biography by Catherine Drinker Bowen
'John Saturnall's Feast' historical fiction by Lawrence Norfolk
'Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel' biography by John Stubbs
Conference Cambridge - Cambridge, Meet Where The Minds Are
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7. With 800 years of history, you can tread in the steps of our famed alumni -- from Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin to Stephen Hawking, William Wordsworth, Samuel Pepys to Stephen Fry and Prince Charles and Jeremy Paxman to David Mitchell.
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New Web site of historic documents marks Royal Society's 350th anniversary
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Royal Society, London, UK, 26 November 2009
1. Wide taxi as it drives past the Royal Society building
2. Close-up the Royal Society sign over the doorway
3. Wide looking up at ceiling from stairwell
4. Mid tilt down ceiling to list of Presidents of the Royal Society list on wall
5. Mid pan left painting on wall to statue in front of window
6. Close-up statue of Newton in front of window
7. SOUNDBITE (English): Lord Martin Rees, President, the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
We're one of the oldest academies in the world and mainly we look forward to the future because science is ever more part of our world and part of our concerns. But we are having the luxury of looking back on our past and recording some of the highlights of the work of our fellows right back to the foundation in 1660.
8. Mid close-up of busts in front of doorway
9. SOUNDBITE (English): Lord Martin Rees, President, the Royal Society and Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Science is not just for scientists, it's part of everyone's culture and also everyone needs to be involved in deciding how science should be applied, because there are all kinds of priority questions and ethical questions, and scientists themselves have no particular expertise on those, but they should engage with a very wide public and that's what we try to do in the Royal Society.
10. Wide pan right people talking, documents are placed on two tables on the left and right hand sides of the room
11. Close-up pan right documents and bust placed on the table
12. Mid portrait of Sir Isaac Newton on wall
13. Close-up of portrait of Sir Isaac Newton
14. Close-up Sir Isaac Newton document, 'Theory on light and colours (1672)'
15. SOUNDBITE (English): Keith Moore, Librarian and Curator, the Royal Society
Here we have Newton's drawing of his first reflecting telescope and this is very important for the fellows because it allowed them to improve their observation of the heavens.
16. Close-up and zoom in hand turning page of Sir Isaac Newton's document, 'Theory on light and colours (1672)'
17. SOUNDBITE (English): Keith Moore, Librarian and Curator, the Royal Society
This is where Newton takes a prism and splits white light into its constituent colours, so this is really a piece of fundamental, experimental science.
18. Close-up hand pointing to prism in Sir Isaac Newton document
19. SOUNDBITE (English): Keith Moore, Librarian and Curator, the Royal Society
Here is Benjamin Franklin's account of the Philadelphia experiment written from Philadelphia in 1752. He says in it that he's noticed the European newspapers carrying accounts of this, and he writes the Royal Society to give a true account of the experiment. He begins by telling Fellows how to construct a kite made of silk, because of course a paper kite would fall apart in a thunder storm, and then the experiment is conducted, culminating in Franklin holding his knuckle close to the key tied to the kite and the hairs on the back of his knuckle standing up, and then he realises that lightning is of an electrical nature.
19. Close-up hand turning page of Benjamin Franklin's document, 'Flying a kite in an electrical storm (1752)'
SOUNDBITE (English): Keith Moore, Librarian and Curator, the Royal Society
Here we have another famous Fellow of the Royal Society, Captain James Cook, who of course explored Australia on his first voyage in the endeavour. Here he is, returning home from the Resolution voyage, one of the Resolution voyages, and detailing how he kept his crew healthy by using sauerkraut in order to prevent scurvy amongst his naval crew.
20. Mid zoom in portrait of Robert Boyle on wall
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Samuel Pepys and the Royal Society
Did you know that Samuel Pepys became president of the Royal Society? (despite very limited scientific knowledge!).
How did his love of fish almost stop the publication of Isaac Newton's world-changing Principia Mathematica?
THE WITCHES DAUNCE 1.
THE WITCHES DAUNCE IN THE QUEENES MASKES (ROBERT JOHNSON)
LA DANSE DES SORCIÈRES
Robert Dowland Varietie of Lute Lessons 1610/, Board f. 26 r
Brade, William, Neue Ausserlesene (Hamburg, 1617).
Danse pour le Masque de Jeremy Herne
Cette danse figurait dans le Masque of Queenes, de Jonson (1609) et devint immédiatement très populaire. L' anti-masque fut repris dans The Witch de Middleton et par la suite transféré dans Macbeth. C'es la musique de Robert Johnson qui passe ainsi d'une pièce à l'autre avec l'antimasque des sorcières.
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La musique de scène de la troupe de Shakespeare THE KING'S MEN sous le règne de Jacques 1er
John P. Cutts
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Danse généralement à trois temps, en trois parties ; les Sorcières allaient généralement par trois, chiffre à la fois divin et infernal !
Dance mainly in 3 times rhythm, with 3 parts ; Witches went usually by three ; number at the same time divine (perfection) and infernal !
It was not always infernal noise that was produced :
They dance to the sound of the tambourine and sometimes with a long instrument which they place on the neck and pulling it down to the belt they strike it with a little stick ; sometimes with a violin ... with such harmony that there is not a concert in the world that can equal it.
(De Lancre 1613 p.127)
Ce n'était pas toujours un bruit infernal qui était produit.
Elles dansent au son du tambourin et de la flûte et parfois avec un instrument long qu'elles placent sur leur cou et le tirant vers le bas jusqu'à la ceinture elles le frappent avec un petit bâton ; parfois avec un violon ... avec une telle harmonie qu'il n'y a pas un concert au monde qui puisse égaler cela.
(De Lancre 1613 p. 127)
Illustrations :
Damnable practises of three Lincolne-shire witches (1619)
Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Soient frites ces langues envieuses ! Les Ballades de Maistre François Villon Yamaigées par messire Hérouard
Grès Paris imprimerie Paul Dupont pour messire Raumon de Rigné 1919.
Witches Dance Tam Oshanter JM- Wright- Robert Burns
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Danse des Sorcières Martin Van Maele La Sorcière étude historique et philosophique Michelet (1862). Dans ce livre, Michelet considère la sorcellerie comme la révolte populaire et naïve de la nature humaine contre les épouvantes et les oppressions du moyen-âge. Première manifestation moderne de cet esprit de la nature qui avait enfanté le paganisme grec et qui devait produire la Renaissance. Il explique l'origine pathologique de l'hallucination par laquelle tant de malheureuses s'imaginaient que Satan habitait réellement en elles, et leur prêtait une puissance extraordinaire.
Je pense que l'on retrouve bien cela dans cette pièce réellement extraordinaire de Robert Johnson qui est le pendant de la Ronde des fées, The Fairy Round d' Holborne.
Luth Renaissance en sol de Stephen Murphy
Renaissance luter in G by Stephen Murphy
TREASURE OF CAMBRIDGE EXHIBITION - NO SOUND
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Colleges da Universidade de Cambridge - Parte 1/2 [Guasca Tur]
Este vídeo é a primeira de duas partes da apresentação sobre 15 dos 31 Colleges que integram a Universidade de Cambridge. Na primeira parte da apresentação, falo sobre oito Colleges. Listo os Colleges com as personalidades que se destacaram neles.
00:00 Apresentação e Critérios da Lista
03:57 CHRIST'S COLLEGE
04:36 John Milton (1608-1674)
05:05 Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
05:38 Julius Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
05:54 Sasha Baron Cohen (1971)
06:05 CLARE COLLEGE
06:56 Hugh Latimer (1487-1555)
07:20 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
08:16 Parker Library
09:13 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
09:52 DOWNING COLLEGE
10:23 John Cleese
11:04 EMMANUEL COLLEGE
11:26 John Harvard (1607-1638)
12:06 Laurence Chaderton (1536-1640)
12:40 As Viagens de Gulliver (1726)
13:18 GOINVILLE AND CAIUS
14:40 William Harvey (1578-1657)
14:49 James Chadwick (1891-1974)
15:03 James Crick (1916-2004)
15:14 Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
15:23 Harold Abrahams (1899-1978)
15:56 KING'S COLLEGE
17:15 John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
17:26 Salman Rushdie (1947)
17:43 As Aventuras de Narnia: A Viagem do Peregrino da Alvorada (2010)
17:54 MAGDALENE COLLEGE
18:39 Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
18:57 A. C. Benson (1862-1925)
19:10 C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
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Samuel Pepys' Diary - September, 1660
Samuel Pepys PRS, MP, JP, (February 23, 1633 – May 26, 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work, and talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.
The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London on 23 February 1633, the son of John Pepys (1601–1680), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys (née Kite; d. 1667), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. His great uncle Talbot Pepys was Recorder and briefly MP for Cambridge in 1625. His father's first cousin, Sir Richard Pepys, was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, appointed Baron of the Exchequer on 30 May 1654, and appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland on 25 September 1655.
Pepys was the fifth of eleven children, but child mortality was high and he was soon the oldest survivor. He was baptised at St Bride's Church on 3 March. Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London; for a while he was sent to live with a nurse, Goody Lawrence, at Kingsland, just north of the city. In about 1644 Pepys attended Huntingdon Grammar School, before being educated at St Paul's School, London, c. 1646–1650. He attended the execution of Charles I, in 1649. In 1650 he went to Cambridge University, having received two exhibitions from St Paul's School (perhaps owing to the influence of Sir George Downing, who was chairman of the judges and for whom he later worked at the Exchequer) and a grant from the Mercers' Company. In October he was admitted as a sizar to Magdalene College; he moved there in March 1651 and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1654.
Later in 1654, or early in 1655, he entered the household of another of his father's cousins, Sir Edward Montagu, who was later created 1st Earl of Sandwich. Elisabeth de St Michel, Pepys' wife. Stipple engraving by James Thomson, after a 1666 painting (now destroyed) by John Hayls. Pepys married the fourteen-year-old Elisabeth de St Michel, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, first in a religious ceremony on 10 October 1655, and later in a civil ceremony on 1 December 1655 at St Margaret's, Westminster.
n 1 January 1660 (1 January 1659/1660 in contemporary terms) Pepys began to keep a diary. He recorded his daily life for almost ten years. This record of a decade of Pepys’s life is over a million words long and is often regarded as Britain’s most celebrated diary. In fact, Pepys has been called the greatest diarist of all time. This is due to his frankness in writing concerning his own weaknesses and the accuracy with which he records events of daily British life and major events in the 17th century. Pepys writes about the contemporary court and theater (including his amorous affairs with the actresses), his household and major political and social occurrences.
To this day, historians still use his diary to gain greater insight and understanding of life in London in the 17th century. Pepys wrote consistently on subjects such as personal finances, the time he got up in the morning, the weather and what he ate. He talked at length about his new watch (that had an alarm—a new thing at the time), which he was very proud of, a country visitor who did not enjoy his time in London because he felt it was too crowded, and his cat waking him up at one in the morning. Because Pepys recorded even minor details, we have a much more thorough understanding of what everyday life would have been like for the British upper middle classes in the 1660s.
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Sir Robert Sawyer, of Highclere was the Attorney General for England and Wales and, briefly, Speaker of the English House of Commons.Robert was a younger son of Sir Edmund Sawyer, of Heywood Lodge, at White Waltham, in Berkshire, who was Auditor of the Exchequer.He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a contemporary of Samuel Pepys and later became a benefactor of the library there.Upon leaving university, he became a barrister of the Inner Temple and took part in a number of well-known cases.
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Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:43 1 Contents
00:02:52 1.1 Expressed aim and topics covered
00:06:09 1.2 Book 1, iDe motu corporum/i
00:09:22 1.3 Book 2
00:11:58 1.4 Book 3, iDe mundi systemate/i
00:15:04 1.5 Commentary on the iPrincipia/i
00:18:55 1.6 Rules of Reasoning in Philosophy
00:23:58 1.7 General Scholium
00:26:40 2 Writing and publication
00:26:50 2.1 Halley and Newton's initial stimulus
00:32:17 2.2 Preliminary version
00:36:57 2.3 Halley's role as publisher
00:38:14 3 Historical context
00:38:24 3.1 Beginnings of the Scientific Revolution
00:41:40 3.2 Newton's role
00:43:06 3.3 Newton's early work on motion
00:44:55 3.4 Controversy with Hooke
00:53:13 4 Location of early-edition copies
00:56:14 5 Later editions
00:56:28 5.1 Second edition, 1713
00:59:47 5.2 Third edition, 1726
01:00:21 5.3 Annotated and other editions
01:01:59 5.4 English translations
01:04:20 5.5 Homages
01:04:53 6 See also
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), often referred to as simply the Principia , is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and correcting his personal copy of the first edition, Newton published two further editions, in 1713 and 1726. The Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
The Principia is considered one of the most important works in the history of science.The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: The famous book of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics. The method followed by its illustrious author Sir Newton ... spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses.A more recent assessment has been that while acceptance of Newton's theories was not immediate, by the end of a century after publication in 1687, no one could deny that (out of the Principia) a science had emerged that, at least in certain respects, so far exceeded anything that had ever gone before that it stood alone as the ultimate exemplar of science generally.In formulating his physical theories, Newton developed and used mathematical methods now included in the field of calculus. But the language of calculus as we know it was largely absent from the Principia; Newton gave many of his proofs in a geometric form of infinitesimal calculus, based on limits of ratios of vanishing small geometric quantities. In a revised conclusion to the Principia (see General Scholium), Newton used his expression that became famous, Hypotheses non fingo (I formulate no hypotheses).
1. How Do You Know?
Freshman Organic Chemistry (CHEM 125)
Professor McBride outlines the course with its goals and requirements, including the required laboratory course. To the course's prime question How do you know he proposes two unacceptable answers (divine and human authority), and two acceptable answers (experiment and logic). He illustrates the fruitfulness of experiment and logic using the rise of science in the seventeenth century. London's Royal Society and the crucial experiment on light by Isaac Newton provide examples. In his correspondence with Newton Samuel Pepys, diarist and naval purchasing officer, illustrates the attitudes and habits which are most vital for budding scientists - especially those who would like to succeed in this course. The lecture closes by introducing the underlying goal for the first half of the semester: understanding the Force Law that describes chemical bonds.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: Logistics
05:37 - Chapter 2. The Goals of Freshman Organic Chemistry: How Do You Know?
15:17 - Chapter 3. Bacon's Instauration: Experimentation over Philosophy
30:17 - Chapter 4. How to Succeed in Chem 125: Following Samuel Pepys
41:56 - Chapter 5. Atoms, Molecules, and Hooke's Law
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