Author: Kolesch & Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue and Price-list of Drawing and Tracing Papers, Sun Print Papers and Equipments, Drawing Instruments and Materials, Surveying Instruments, Accessories, Etc
Author: Kolesch & Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Study
Author: Andrew Hui
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo’s influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. Beautifully illustrated, The Study is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691243336
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the Renaissance studiolo—a “little studio”—and reveals how these spaces dedicated to self-cultivation became both a remedy and a poison for the soul. Blending fresh, insightful readings of literary and visual works with engaging accounts of his life as an insatiable bookworm, Hui traces how humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli to Montaigne created their own intimate studies. He looks at imaginary libraries in Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Marlowe, and discusses how Renaissance painters depicted the Virgin Mary and St. Jerome as saintly bibliophiles. Yet writers of the period also saw a dark side to solitary reading. It drove Don Quixote to madness, Prospero to exile, and Faustus to perdition. Hui draws parallels with our own age of information surplus and charts the studiolo’s influence on bibliographic fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco. Beautifully illustrated, The Study is at once a celebration of bibliophilia and a critique of bibliomania. Incorporating perspectives on Islamic, Mughal, and Chinese book cultures, it offers a timely and eloquent meditation on the ways we read and misread today.
A Manual of the Principal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying
Author: W. & L.E. Gurley (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category : Surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Micrographia
Author: Robert Hooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hair
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
At one time, Hooke was a research assistant to Robert Boyle. He is believed to be one of the greatest inventive geniuses of all time and constructed one of the most famous of the early compound microscopes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hair
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
At one time, Hooke was a research assistant to Robert Boyle. He is believed to be one of the greatest inventive geniuses of all time and constructed one of the most famous of the early compound microscopes.
Micrographia
Author: R. Hooke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752308680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Micrographia by R. Hooke
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752308680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Micrographia by R. Hooke
Hood's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
A Manual of the Principal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying
Author: W. & L.E. Gurley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Micrographia, Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Author: Robert Hooke
Publisher:
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Category : Lenses
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lenses
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
The Philatelic Gazette
Author:
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Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description