Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2062
Book Description
Experiments in Organic Chemistry
Author: Louis Frederick FieserPublisher:
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Category : Chemistry, Organic
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
El-Hi Textbooks in Print
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Marion Effie PotterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Laboratory Manual to Accompany Clarke and Dennis's Elementary Chemistry
Author: Louis Munroe DennisPublisher:
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Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Sewage
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"This manual contains overview information on treatment technologies, installation practices, and past performance."--Introduction.
The Topkapi Scroll
Author: Gülru NecipoğluPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892363355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Since precious few architectural drawings and no theoretical treatises on architecture remain from the premodern Islamic world, the Timurid pattern scroll in the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum Library is an exceedingly rich and valuable source of information. In the course of her in-depth analysis of this scroll dating from the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century, Gülru Necipoğlu throws new light on the conceptualization, recording, and transmission of architectural design in the Islamic world between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. Her text has particularly far-reaching implications for recent discussions on vision, subjectivity, and the semiotics of abstract representation. She also compares the Islamic understanding of geometry with that found in medieval Western art, making this book particularly valuable for all historians and critics of architecture. The scroll, with its 114 individual geometric patterns for wall surfaces and vaulting, is reproduced entirely in color in this elegant, large-format volume. An extensive catalogue includes illustrations showing the underlying geometries (in the form of incised “dead” drawings) from which the individual patterns are generated. An essay by Mohammad al-Asad discusses the geometry of the muqarnas and demonstrates by means of CAD drawings how one of the scroll’s patterns could be used co design a three-dimensional vault.