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Category : Forest resources
Languages : en
Pages : 858

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Author: Leonardo da Vinci
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465514147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1118

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A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations to which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance has become so wellknown and popular through copies of every description. Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he laboured much more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographer evidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript which have been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almost inexplicable that these valuable and interesting original texts should have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. It is certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries their exceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merely by the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptional interest which has been attached to the change of ownership of merely a few pages of Manuscript. That, notwithstanding this eagerness to possess the Manuscripts, their contents remained a mystery, can only be accounted for by the many and great difficulties attending the task of deciphering them. The handwriting is so peculiar that it requires considerable practice to read even a few detached phrases, much more to solve with any certainty the numerous difficulties of alternative readings, and to master the sense as a connected whole. Vasari observes with reference to Leonardos writing: "he wrote backwards, in rude characters, and with the left hand, so that any one who is not practised in reading them, cannot understand them". The aid of a mirror in reading reversed handwriting appears to me available only for a first experimental reading. Speaking from my own experience, the persistent use of it is too fatiguing and inconvenient to be practically advisable, considering the enormous mass of Manuscripts to be deciphered. And as, after all, Leonardo's handwriting runs backwards just as all Oriental character runs backwards—that is to say from right to left—the difficulty of reading direct from the writing is not insuperable. This obvious peculiarity in the writing is not, however, by any means the only obstacle in the way of mastering the text. Leonardo made use of an orthography peculiar to himself; he had a fashion of amalgamating several short words into one long one, or, again, he would quite arbitrarily divide a long word into two separate halves; added to this there is no punctuation whatever to regulate the division and construction of the sentences, nor are there any accents—and the reader may imagine that such difficulties were almost sufficient to make the task seem a desperate one to a beginner. It is therefore not surprising that the good intentions of some of Leonardo s most reverent admirers should have failed.

Author: James Brown (of Arniston.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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Author: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, Pa.)
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: Robert Carruthers
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Category : Highlands (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Author: United States. Forest Service
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Category : Forest reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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Author: Angus Duncan Webster
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Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Kathleen Coburn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000736180
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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First published in 2002. Volume 1 of the Text on the Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spanning from 1794 to 1804. The volume is in two parts, text and notes. During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary, theological, philosophical, scientific, social and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works and many other items of great interest. Shortly after World War II, Kathleen Coburn, formerly of Victoria College in Toronto, rediscovered this great collection of unpublished manuscripts. With the support of the Coleridge estate, she embarked on a career of editing and publishing these volumes and was awarded with many honours for her work, including: a Leverhulme Award (1948), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1953), a Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1958), the Order of Canada (1974) and an honorary doctorate from her own university. Originally projected as a five volume set (each volume consisting of a book of text and a book of notes).

Author: Chuck Singleton
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ISBN: 9781691924141
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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A Doctor turned preacher, a 6' 9" logger, an orphaned pre-teen girl + a Rouge Army General, a disgraced CDC pathologist, a manufactured virus that animates the dead= The utter devastation of the 42 state in the U.S.A. A dead animating virus is released in the town of Winlock, Washington. It spreads exponentially across the state destroying communities by animating the dead. Hal Jones, a former doctor turned Minister, a young girl by the name of Tara, and Forester, a logger described as "The Hulk" with a chainsaw, Travel the State because of the rumor of a possible cure. They encounter much worse then the "Deader" which feast on the living. The Survivors of the virus who will do whatever is possible in a place where the law no longer exists. The three, Hal, Tara, and Forester chronicle their exploits in notebooks that tracks the days, and hardships they face. In the genre of "Found Footage" movies, The Dead Notebook is written by telling the daily accounts of the people trying to survive in the state of Washington which has become a zombie wasteland.

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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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