Black: The History of a Color
Black: The History of a Color
... hooves and tail of a goat) that Christian art borrowed the first features of the devil, before granting him a pair of wings (he was a fallen angel, after all) and then exaggerating his animal characteristics. In ... for example, made Nyx, goddess of the night, the daughter of Chaos, the primordial void, and the mother of Uranus and Gaia, the sky and earth. 3 He...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:12
Cambridge.University.Press.Africans.The.History.of.a.Continent.Aug.2007.pdf
... leatherwork – an associ- ation between that craft and cavalry warfare paralleled further north in Katsina. Specialisation was most advanced in the textile industry. In equatorial Africa, many ... engaged in a long and painful colonisation of the land. southern africa By about ad 400, early iron age cultivators speaking Bantu languages occupied much of eastern and southern Africa, al...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39
The History of a Mouthful docx
... in the case of a mouthful of bread and meat swallowed at once, the bread passes away on its travels long before the meat has done dancing attendance in the stomach, awaiting that transformation ... makes, as nearly as possible, the same chyme as the charcoal-burner's black bread; and though the palate of the former may be better treated than that of the latter...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20
A View of the History of Biochemical Engineering
... petroleum. At the time, George Tsao was on assignment at the U.S. National Science Foundation, on leave from Iowa State University, managing several funding programs as a part of the RANN (Research Applied ... issue of several patents. The concentrated sulfuric acid method was investigated again at the Tennessee Valley Authority (Farina 1991) and the U.S. National Renewable...
Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2013, 17:20
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised pdf
... of the points of support, and hence the nature of the structural design. A comparison, for example, of the plans of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig. 11, h) and of the Basilica of Constantine ... and accurate the author’s name is a sufficient guarantee. Essential historical and biographical facts, together with brief critical estimates and characterizations...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 14:20
Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art
... to the arcana of the great Jewish mystical culture—in particular the cabala of Isaac Luria, transmitted as far as the shtetls in Poland—what the transparent window is to the mystery of the Incarnation ... adaptation of the grand ‘‘magic words’’ of Vasarian academicism: triumphant ri- nascita ` recast in a certain notion of the history of art as rationalist...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 09:15
THE CHEMICAL HISTORY OF A CANDLE A COURSE OF LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE A JUVENILE AUDIENCE AT THE ROYAL INSTITUTION ppt
... manner the particles of melted tallow ascend the cotton and get to the top; other particles then follow by their mutual attraction for each other, and as they reach the flame they are gradually ... I have a drawing here, sketched many years ago by Hooker, when he made his investigations. It is the drawing of the flame of a lamp, but it will apply to the flame of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
THE FIRST BANK OF THE UNITED STATES - A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL BANKING pdf
... Columbia University). Biographical Sketches THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA THE ... courtesy of The Library Company of Philadelphia. Biographical Sketches COLLECTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20