Author: Spring Gardens, Charing Cross (LONDON)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A descriptive catalogue of the several suberb and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery, exhibited in the Museum, at Spring-Gardens. Charing-Cross. [By James Cox.]
Author: Spring Gardens, Charing Cross (LONDON)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Several Superb and Magnificent Pieces of Mechanism and Jewellery
Author: James Cox (jeweler.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Several Superb And Magnificent Pieces Of Mechanism And Jewellery, Exhibited In The Museum, At Spring-Gardens, Charing-Cross
Author: James Cox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine theory
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machine theory
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Several Superb and Magnificent Pieces of Mechanism and Jewellery, exhibited in Mr Cox's Museum, etc
Author: James Cox (jeweler.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Museums, Their History and Their Use
Author: David Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Museums
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
"Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity"
Author: Catherine Pagani
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112081
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472112081
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
The History of Museums Vol 4
Author: David Murray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040130011
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040130011
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
Heavenly Clockwork
Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521322768
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521322768
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.
The Self and It
Author: Julie Park
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life into a narrated object of psychological plausibility. Park makes a bold intervention in histories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects abounding in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel, itself a commodity fetish, as vital tools for fashioning the modern self. As it constructs a history for the psychology of objects, The Self and It revises a story that others have viewed as originating later: in an age of Enlightenment, things have the power to move, affect people's lives, and most of all, enable a fictional genre of selfhood. The book demonstrates just how much the modern psyche—and its thrilling projections of "artificial life"—derive from the formation of the early novel, and the reciprocal activity between made things and invented identities that underlie it.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804773343
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life into a narrated object of psychological plausibility. Park makes a bold intervention in histories of the rise of the novel by arguing that the material objects abounding in eighteenth-century England's consumer markets worked in conjunction with the novel, itself a commodity fetish, as vital tools for fashioning the modern self. As it constructs a history for the psychology of objects, The Self and It revises a story that others have viewed as originating later: in an age of Enlightenment, things have the power to move, affect people's lives, and most of all, enable a fictional genre of selfhood. The book demonstrates just how much the modern psyche—and its thrilling projections of "artificial life"—derive from the formation of the early novel, and the reciprocal activity between made things and invented identities that underlie it.
Library Company of Philadelphia: 1976 Annual Report
Author:
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher: The Library Company of Phil
ISBN: 9781422361092
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description