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Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance (Routledge Research in Art History)
Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance (Routledge Research in Art History)

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and...

The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Edition 1.
The Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students Edition 1.
ARBA : "This heavily illustrated four-volume set is a derivative student edition based upon the more comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Renaissance issued in 1999 under the direction of the same editor...Individual entries are quite readable and are provided with marginal definitions of works that may be unfamiliar to the...
The Thirteen Books of the Elements (Euclid, Vol. 2--Books III-IX)
The Thirteen Books of the Elements (Euclid, Vol. 2--Books III-IX)

Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports,...

Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
Fairy Tales: A New History (Excelsior Editions)
Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral
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Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Picturing Machines 1400-1700 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices—have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance...
Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination With Light
Light Years and Time Travel: An Exploration of Mankind's Enduring Fascination With Light
According to Einstein, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Of all the mind-bending theories in modern physics, that, at least, seemed a rule the universe–let alone mankind–could never break.

But in 1994 Professor Gunter Nimtz sent a recording of Mozart’s 40th Symphony through a physical barrier at four times...

Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil (Focus on World Music)
Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil (Focus on World Music)
"Anyone with more than a casual interest in Brazilian music history simply must look at this top ethnomusicological study." --Midwest Book Review

"Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil" examines the historical and contemporary manifestations of the music of Brazil, a country with a musical landscape that is
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The Art of Memory (Frances Yates: Selected Works)
The Art of Memory (Frances Yates: Selected Works)
"Once in a very great while, historical scholarship produces a book which makes one immediately begin re-thinking many of one's major suppositions about the thought systems of the past. Professor Yates has given us such a book."--Norman D. Hinton, The Modern Schoolman

The Art of...
The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book (California Studies in Food and Culture)
The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book (California Studies in Food and Culture)
"Surely one of the most significant writings ever concerning the origins and methods of Western cookery. As a pure cookbook, it is a collection of Maestro Martino of Como's precise, workable recipes, each preaching the value and preservation of basic flavors--a revolutionary concept for his time. As an historical resource, The Art of...
An Introduction to Radio Frequency Engineering
An Introduction to Radio Frequency Engineering
The following text evolved out of a series of courses on radio frequency (RF) engineering to undergraduates, postgraduates, government and industry. It was designed to meet the needs of such groups and, in particular, the needs of working engineers attempting to upgrade their skills. Thirty years ago, it appeared as if the fibre optics revolution...
The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society (The Classical Tradition in Architecture )
The Florentine Villa: Architecture History Society (The Classical Tradition in Architecture )
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day. Defying the traditional and idealized interpretation...
Architecture of Italy (Reference Guides to National Architecture)
Architecture of Italy (Reference Guides to National Architecture)
Covering all regions of Italy--from Turin's Palace of Labor in northern Italy to the Monreale Cathedral and Cloister in Sicily--and all periods of Italian architecture--from the first-century Colosseum in Rome to the Casa Rustica apartments built in Milan in the 1930s--this volume examines over 70 of Italy's most important architectural landmarks....
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