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Author : Bülent Atalay,Keith Wamsley
Publisher : National Geographic Society
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019940839
Author : Clifford A. Pickover
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780195351552
Do a little armchair time-travel, rub elbows with a four-dimensional intelligent life form, or stretch your mind to the furthest corner of an uncharted universe. With this astonishing guidebook, Surfing Through Hyperspace, you need not be a mathematician or an astrophysicist to explore the all-but-unfathomable concepts of hyperspace and higher-dimensional geometry. No subject in mathematics has intrigued both children and adults as much as the idea of a fourth dimension. Philosophers and parapsychologists have meditated on this mysterious space that no one can point to but may be all around us. Yet this extra dimension has a very real, practical value to mathematicians and physicists who use it every day in their calculations. In the tradition of Flatland, and with an infectious enthusiasm, Clifford Pickover tackles the problems inherent in our 3-D brains trying to visualize a 4-D world, muses on the religious implications of the existence of higher-dimensional consciousness, and urges all curious readers to venture into "the unexplored territory lying beyond the prison of the obvious." Pickover alternates sections that explain the science of hyperspace with sections that dramatize mind-expanding concepts through a fictional dialogue between two futuristic FBI agents who dabble in the fourth dimension as a matter of national security. This highly accessible and entertaining approach turns an intimidating subject into a scientific game open to all dreamers. Surfing Through Hyperspace concludes with a number of puzzles, computer experiments and formulas for further exploration, inviting readers to extend their minds across this inexhaustibly intriguing scientific terrain.
Author : Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781040063019
Bringing the material up to date, Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines, Second Edition captures the new ideas and discoveries made in physics since the publication of the best-selling first edition. While retaining the popular format and style of its predecessor, this edition explores the latest developments in high-energy astroparticle physics
Author : Ian Warwick,Ray Speakman
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398383029
What are the seven key concepts that drove Da Vinci's inventive thinking and how can we still use them to improve our own creativity, 500 years after his death? In pursuit of the unified learning principles that sit at the heart of his work, Ian Warwick and Ray Speakman brilliantly explore the approaches that we need to take to make our own learning more original and thoughtful.
Author : Allison Lee Palmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781538119785
Leonardo da Vinci: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and work, beginning with his paintings, including several he never completed, that form the core of his artistic oeuvre. The extensive A to Z section includes several hundred entries. The bibliography provides a comprehensive list of publications concerning his life and work Includes a detailed chronology detailing Leonardo Da Vinci’s life, family, and work. The A to Z section includes Leonardo’s main patrons, the major places he worked, and the artists and scholars whose work and ideas played an important role in the formation of his career. The bibliography includes a list of publications concerning his life and work. The index thoroughly cross-references the chronological and encyclopedic entries.
Author : Martin Kemp,Robert B. Simon,Margaret Dalivalle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192543288
The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a Russian oligarch. In 2017 it was auctioned by Christie's in New York, fetching the world record price of $450m, and now forms part of the collection of Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Salvator Mundi may be seen as the devotional counterpart to the Mona Lisa, having an extraordinary, communicative presence. The artist has reformed the very traditional subject matter in a number of ways. The elusiveness of Christ's expression suggests his spiritual origins beyond the world of the senses. The traditional sphere of the earth has been transformed into a rock-crystal orb and signifies a crystalline sphere of the heavens. In addition to its spiritual dimension, the image exploits Leonardo's optical knowledge and his growing sense of the illusiveness of seeing. Only the blessing hand is in reasonably sharp focus, with his features softly veiled. The scintillating curls of his hair are characterised in line with his theory that the physics of the curling of hair is analogous to vortex motion in water. This book looks at evidence of Leonardo's Salvator Mundi in the collections of Charles I and Charles II. It explores the appraisal of works by Leonardo at the Stuart courts, and proposes that how works attributed to Leonardo were first encountered and understood in seventeenth-century Britain would shape the wider evolution of Leonardo as a cultural icon. This volume gives a dramatic first-hand account of the modern-day discovery of the painting, from its purchase in a minor New Orleans auction house, to the cleaning of the picture that would disclose it as Leonardo's startling original, and the research processes that would uncover illustrious and obscure former owners. The book presents the definitive study of the new masterpiece.
Author : John Lawrence Toma,Delyse Ann Huntley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527550773
This book illustrates the diverse and simultaneous happenings in the varied and complex Europe of the 1500s and 1600s AD, mainly focusing on England and Italy, the two major protagonists of this most fascinating period of history, when military interventions, literature, art and religious philosophies formed the Europe which we have inherited today. The book is enriched with more than 1000 illustrations and a 100-year calendar of historical events, in addition to references to 1,168 important contemporaries who lived in England, Italy and Europe during the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This book also delves in depth into the fascinating mystery of the authorship question in relation to who wrote the Shakespearean works.
Author : Buckminster Fuller,Answar Dil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110859577
Author : Constance Moffatt,Sara Taglialagamba
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004398443
The second volume of Leonardo Studies offers an impressive overview of current Leonardo scholarship into two of his primary interests: nature and architecture. The authors consider Leonardo’s treatises and their aftermath, science experiments, and fields of art and science based on two abundant subjects.
Author : Claire J. Farago
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815329369
Also available as the fourth book in a 5 volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Author : Tom Waltz,Kevin Eastman
Publisher : IDW Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781684068890
Revisit one of the biggest books of 2019 with this deluxe version of TMNT #100! Featuring behind-the-scenes artwork, rare cover artwork, and a complete oral history of the entire record-breaking IDW TMNT series! This is the perfect item for mega-fans of TMNT!
Author : Philosophical Library
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781453202517
DIVDIVDIVAn intriguing look inside the mind of the Renaissance genius/div/divDIV /divDIVDIVLeonardo da Vinci stood on a bridge between medieval thought and the modern mind. In this selection of entries from his dozens of coded notebooks and unpublished manuscripts, his unending curiosity in the universe and deep knowledge come through in his energetic style. The self-educated da Vinci developed a philosophical system that set him apart from his contemporaries and marked him as the oracle of a new age, and his vivid imagination and straightforward writing style capture the reader’s attention whether he is writing about his scientific analysis, his opinion of necromancy, discoveries in nature, or the nature of man. Accompanied by a thorough introduction, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci unveils the man’s deepest thoughts and musings and proves why he remains an intriguing and enduring figure./div/divDIV /div /div
Author : Claire J. Farago
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0815329350
Also available as the third book in a five volume set (ISBN#0815329334)
Author : Claire Farago
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351551298
For nearly three centuries Leonardo da Vinci's work was known primarily through the abridged version of his Treatise on Painting, first published in Paris in 1651 and soon translated into all the major European languages. Here for the first time is a study that examines the historical reception of this vastly influential text. This collection charts the varied interpretations of Leonardo's ideas in French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Dutch, Flemish, Greek, and Polish speaking environments where the Trattato was an important resource for the academic instruction of artists, one of the key sources drawn upon by art theorists, and widely read by a diverse network of artists, architects, biographers, natural philosophers, translators, astronomers, publishers, engineers, theologians, aristocrats, lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs, and collectors. The cross-cultural approach employed here demonstrates that Leonardo's Treatise on Painting is an ideal case study through which to chart the institutionalization of art in Europe and beyond for 400 years. The volume includes original essays by scholars studying a wide variety of national and institutional settings. The coherence of the volume is established by the shared subject matter and interpretative aim: to understand how Leonardo's ideas were used. With its focus on the active reception of an important text overlooked in studies of the artist's solitary genius, the collection takes Leonardo studies to a new level of historical inquiry. Leonardo da Vinci's most significant contribution to Western art was his interpretation of painting as a science grounded in geometry and direct observation of nature. One of the most important questions to emerge from this study is, what enabled the same text to produce so many different styles of painting?
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501139178
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker). Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson “deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo” (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and an imagination so playful that it flirted with fantasy. He produced the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. With a passion that sometimes became obsessive, he pursued innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, the heart, flying machines, botany, geology, and weaponry. He explored the math of optics, showed how light rays strike the cornea, and produced illusions of changing perspectives in The Last Supper. His ability to stand at the crossroads of the humanities and the sciences, made iconic by his drawing of Vitruvian Man, made him history’s most creative genius. In the “luminous” (Daily Beast) Leonardo da Vinci, Isaacson describes how Leonardo’s delight at combining diverse passions remains the ultimate recipe for creativity. So, too, does his ease at being a bit of a misfit: illegitimate, gay, vegetarian, left-handed, easily distracted, and at times heretical. His life should remind us of the importance to be imaginative and, like talented rebels in any era, to think different. Here, da Vinci “comes to life in all his remarkable brilliance and oddity in Walter Isaacson’s ambitious new biography…a vigorous, insightful portrait” (The Washington Post).
