History Makers Series – serie
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Finding the Speed of Light
The 1676 Discovery that Dazzled the World
Av Mark Weston
Inbunden, 2019
203 kr
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More than two centuries before Einstein, using a crude telescope and a mechanical timepiece, Danish astronomer Ole Romer measured the speed of light with astounding accuracy. How was he able to do this when most scientists didn’t even believe that light traveled? Like many paradigm-shattering …
Monument Maker
Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial
Inbunden, 2019
309 kr
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This is the story of how a farmboy became America’s foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney’s swift prose and Fields’s evocative illustrations capture the single-minded …
Immigrant Architect
Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream
Av Berta de Miguel, Kent Diebolt
Inbunden, 2020
217 kr
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Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities—densely packed and built largely of wood—were experiencing horrific fires, and Guastavino had the solution: The soaring interior spaces created by his tiled vaults and domes made buildings …
