The Origins of Invention
Author: Otis T. Mason
Publisher: London : W. Scott
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Otis T. Mason
Publisher: London : W. Scott
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 470
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Otis T. Mason
Publisher: London : W. Scott
Published: 1895
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James S. Ackerman
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780300218718
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on Italian masters such as Palladio and Michelangelo. In this collection of essays, Ackerman offers insight into his formation and development as a scholar, as well as reflections on a range of topics. Concise, lucid, and original, this book presents deep syntheses alongside innovative approaches and a broadening geographical and chronological reach. Ackerman's enduring fascination with architecture was one unforeseen consequence of his military service in World War II, and the collection includes a revealing account of his part in the liberation of Milan as a soldier in the Fifth American Regiment. These essays represent a unique, personal journey--from the Italian Renaissance to the classical architecture of India and the work of Frank Gehry at the new museum of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
Author: Jolyon Goddard
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1426205449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A global view of science and technology as it developed over the centuries.
Author: Silvia Ferrara
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 0374601631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance—published all around the world—a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention: writing. The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair’s oval backrest—all around us is an alphabet in things. But how did these shapes make it onto the page, never mind form complex structures such as this sentence? In The Greatest Invention, Silvia Ferrara takes a profound look at how—and how many times—human beings have managed to produce the miracle of written language, traveling back and forth in time and all across the globe to Mesopotamia, Crete, China, Egypt, Central America, Easter Island, and beyond. With Ferrara as our guide, we examine the enigmas of undeciphered scripts, including famous cases like the Phaistos Disk and the Voynich Manuscript; we touch the knotted, colored strings of the Inca quipu; we study the turtle shells and ox scapulae that bear the earliest Chinese inscriptions; we watch in awe as Sequoyah single-handedly invents a script for the Cherokee language; and we venture to the cutting edge of decipherment, in which high-powered laser scanners bring tears to an engineer’s eye. A code-cracking tour around the globe, The Greatest Invention chronicles a previously uncharted journey, one filled with past flashes of brilliance, present-day scientific research, and a faint, fleeting glimpse of writing’s future.
Author: John H. Lienhard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0195341201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original publication and copyright date: 2006.
Author: Autumn Stanley
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9780813521978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.
Author: Siep Stuurman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 0674977513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the “clash of civilizations.”