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7 produkter
Music Of The Spheres
Music, Science and the Natural Order of the Universe
Av Jamie James
Häftad, 1995
151 kr
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From the 5th century BC, when Pythagoras first composed his laws of Western music and science, until the flowering of Romanticism over 2000 years later, scientists and philosophers perceived the cosmos musically, as an ordered mechanism whose smooth operation created a celestial harmony - the music …
Glamour of Strangeness
Av Jamie James
Inbunden, 2016
463 kr
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Focusing on six principal subjects, Jamie James locates "a lost national school" of artists who left their homes for the unknown. There is Walter Spies, the devastatingly handsome German painter who remade his life in Bali; Raden Saleh, the Javanese painter who found fame in Europe; Isabelle …
Music of the Spheres
Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe
Av Jamie James
Häftad, 1995
382 kr
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The parallel histories of music and science - from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored …
Snake Charmer
A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
Av Jamie James
Häftad, 2009
225 kr
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Snake Charmer
A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
Av Jamie James
E-bok, 2008
227 kr
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Although it was still too dark to see well, Joe absentmindedly thrust his right hand into the sack to extract the specimen and have a look. Immediately, he winced with pain and yanked out his hand. A tiny black-and-white banded snake, less than ten inches long, was dangling limply from his middle …
Snake Charmer
A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge
Av Jamie James
Ljudbok, 2008
246 kr
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One of the most brilliant biologists of our time and a charismatic daredevil, Dr. Joe Slowinski had been obsessed with venomous snakes since his youth. In 2001, Slowinski led a team of young scientists deep into the wilds of Burma on a final tragic expedition. Immediately after being bitten by the …
Rimbaud en Java
El viaje perdido
Av Jamie James
E-bok, 2020
48 kr
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A la edad de dieciocho años, en Una temporada en el infierno, profetizó el resto de su vida. Dejaba Europa atrás. Escribió del aire de mar que le quemaría los pulmones, de la ráfaga solar que le broncearía el cuerpo entero. Tres años después, en 1876, se incorporó a la Armada Real de las Indias …
