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Celestial Mirror
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

Celestial Mirror

Explore the eighteenth-century Indian astronomical observatories called the Jantar Mantars, massive, stunning structures built to observe and understand the heavens Between 1724 and 1730, Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining elements of astronomy, astrology, and geometry into forms of remarkable beauty. The observatories’ large scale and striking geometric forms have captivated the attention of architects, artists, scientists, and historians worldwide, yet their purpose and use remain largely unknown to the public. In this book, Barry Perlus’s visually driven exploration brings readers to the Jantar Mantars and creates an immersive experience. Panoramas plunge the viewer into a breathtaking 360-degree space, while pages of explanatory illustrations describe the observatories and the workings of their many instruments. The book provides the experience of visiting the sites, the historical context of the Jantar Mantars, and an understanding of their scientific and architectural innovations.

The Virtual Dimension
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

The Virtual Dimension

"The Virtual Dimension critically examines the role that digital and immersive technologies have on the methods used by architects, designers, and artists to conceptualize and represent both real and virtual spaces. Interdisciplinary in nature, the essays included here address the implications of "going virtual" from a variety of cultural and theoretical viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Progressive Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 558

Progressive Architecture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Jazz Styles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Jazz Styles

Key Benefit: This broad and encompassing survey provides a rich, informative, and chronological study of jazz, with insightful commentaries on its origins, and full descriptions of the various styles of jazz and the personalities that have contributed to this innovative form of music. Key Topics: Discussions of benchmark styles with point-by-point differentiation cover early jazz, swing, bop, hard bop, cool jazz, "free" jazz, and jazz-rock fusion--highlighting the musical characteristics of each style and contrasting each successive era. Market: For musicians and non-musicians alike--to increase their appreciation and enjoyment of jazz.

The New York Times Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 672

The New York Times Magazine

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of Art and Design Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada, 1994-95
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554
Directory of Art and Design Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Directory of Art and Design Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1994
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Manipulating the Sun
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Manipulating the Sun

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-18
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume puts two biblical miracles - the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahaz) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 -, in the early modern period centre stage. We pay special attention to the development of related imagery, their role as anti-Copernican arguments (in text and image), their reception, their treatment in the mathematical sciences, and their various cultural layers, with a focus on the history of art and the history of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The material discussed spreads from rather prosaic mathematical reflections to highly appealing visual representations of the two miracles.

Delhi: Adventures In A Megacity (PB)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Delhi: Adventures In A Megacity (PB)

‘A book that is . . . as eccentric and anarchic as its subject’—William Dalrymple In this extraordinary portrait of one of the world’s largest cities, Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being ‘India’s dreamtown— and its purgatory’. He treads the city’s streets, including its less celebrated destinations—Nehru Place, Pitampura and Gurgaon—places most writers ignore. His encounters with Delhi’s people, from ragpickers to members of the Police Brass Band, create a richly entertaining portrait of what the city is and what it is becoming. Miller is, like so many of the people he meets, a migrant in one of the world’s fastest growing megapolises and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. Miller possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life’s diversities, for all the marvellous and sublime moments that illuminate people’s lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one which unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung and the unfamiliar.

The Photo Gallery & Workshop Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

The Photo Gallery & Workshop Handbook

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