Author: Ian Thompson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1582346313
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Presents an illustrated account of the creation of one of the world's most dazzling and extensive gardens, the gardens at the palace of Versailles, noting the unique four-decade friendship between Louis XIV, the creator of the garden, and Andre Le Ntre, the gardener.
Author: Stuart Clark
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph systems crashed, machines burst into flames, and electric shocks rendered operators unconscious. Compasses and other sensitive instruments reeled as if struck by a massive magnetic fist. For the first time, people began to suspect that the Earth was not isolated from the rest of the universe. However, nobody knew what could have released such strange forces upon the Earth--nobody, that is, except the amateur English astronomer Richard Carrington. In this riveting account, Stuart Clark tells for the first time the full story behind Carrington's observations of a mysterious explosion on the surface of the Sun and how his brilliant insight--that the Sun's magnetism directly influences the Earth--helped to usher in the modern era of astronomy. Clark vividly brings to life the scientists who roundly rejected the significance of Carrington's discovery of solar flares, as well as those who took up his struggle to prove the notion that the Earth could be touched by influences from space. Clark also reveals new details about the sordid scandal that destroyed Carrington's reputation and led him from the highest echelons of science to the very lowest reaches of love, villainy, and revenge. The Sun Kings transports us back to Victorian England, into the very heart of the great nineteenth-century scientific controversy about the Sun's hidden influence over our planet.
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERRE
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Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Author: Johanna Maurer
Publisher: novum publishing
ISBN: 164268578X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 657
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The centuries pass and Tharandil and his partner Nimrond rule the "House of Trees" as kings. Their offspring grow up and are now approaching the year house. There is a deep longing within them, the desire for togetherness awakens. But after the world wanderer returns from Gydland, everything changes. There, among the humans, he has found the instrument he needs to seize control of Varngond. He manages to throw King Tharandil completely off balance and rally some hunters behind him. Will the royal family succeed in averting all harm and retaining power? And what is the mysterious intruder doing sneaking through the woods in search of the king?
Author: Guy Stanton Ford
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 2080
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Author: William Tyler Miller
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: Michael Waters
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: Archibald Henry Sayce
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Category : Assyria
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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