Terre

Atlante di Gaia. Un Pianeta da salvare.

Mm 220x190 Edizione identica all'originale del Club del Libro. Volume in copertina rfigida con sovraccoperta, 272 pagine; molte le immagini a colori. "Per chi pensa oggi al mondo di domani". In ottimo stato. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.

Salvalibro Snc · Foligno, IT9,00 €

Musumarra AldoMareMagnum

Una vita per l'Etna. Orazio Silvestri vulcanologo fiorentino (1835-1890)

ill., ril. Nel gennaio del 1863 il fiorentino Orazio Silvestri giunse a Catania per occupare la cattedra di Chimica Generale di quella Università. L'Etna lo incantò subito e quando nel 1865 esplose la grande eruzione, che formò i Monti Sartorius, avvenne il fortunato incontro con il vulcanologo francese Ferdinand Fouqué. Il ritrovamento di rilevanti epistolari ha permesso una ricostruzione accurata dell'attività di questo valoroso scienziato sia nella vita familiare che nel contesto universitario pisano e catanese. Ma Orazio Silvestri, votatosi alla Vulcanologia, ci ha lasciato soprattutto delle avvincenti e accurate descrizioni delle eruzioni alle quali assistette in condizioni spesso rischiose. Le ascensioni al vulcano, i congressi, gli incontri con i più eminenti scienziati, le diatribe scientifiche, la calamità del colera: è il mondo della seconda metà del XIX secolo a rivivere in queste pagine corredate da immagini spesso inedite, fino all'ultima eruzione studiata da Silvestri quella che nel nel 1888 provocò l'esplosione di Vulcano nelle isole Eolie, conclusasi nel 1890, l'anno stesso della sua prematura morte.

Maremagnum.com S.r.l. · Milano, IT24,70 €

Murray, Hugh (1779-1846).MareMagnum

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY, COMPRISING A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH. Revised, With Additions By Thomas G. Bradford. In Three Volumes.

Three Volumes. Illustrated with 82 maps and about 1100 other wood engravings. Also a color folding map of the United States in Volume III. Early manuscript ownership of Martin Buckhart and A. B. Burkhart, 1895 in all three volumes. 4to. 260 mm. Original full leather bindings. Original leather spine labels. Spine of volume III worn with loss at tail. Hardbound. Very good. Title continues: 'Physical, Statistical, Civil, And Political; Exhibiting Its Relation To The Heavenly Bodies, Its Physical Structure, The Natural History Of Each Country, And The Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, And Civil And Social State Of All Nations.' S&S/AI 40-4803. Handsome set. PALIB 4

Bookshop Family Album · Kinzers, US69,54 €

Muratova, XeniaMareMagnum

L'Alto Medioevo. Il Secolo XII

Mm 220x290 Collana "Storia Universale dell'Arte - Le Civiltà dell'Occidente". Volume rilegato in tela, sovraccoperta editoriale, cartone originale protettivo, 305 pagine con numerose illustrazioni in nero e a colori nel testo. Bibliografia, indice dei nome e dei luoghi in chiusura. Libro in perfetto stato di nuovo - brand new. SPEDIZIONE IN 24 ORE DALLA CONFERMA DELL'ORDINE.

Salvalibro Snc · Foligno, IT29,00 €

MURAT AKAGÜNDÜZ.MareMagnum

Murat Akagündüz. Vertigo. [Exhibition catalogue]. Edited by Süreyyya Evren, Ilkay Baliç.

New English Paperback. Pbo. 4to. (31 x 24 cm). In English and Turkish. 112 p., b/w and color ills. Murat Akagündüz. VErtigi. [Exhibition catalogue]. Edited by Süreyyya Evren, Ilkay Baliç. Murat Akagündüz's exhibition Vertigo brings together 13 paintings from the "Kaf" series. In this new series the artist depicts some of world's highest mountain peaks as seen on Google Earth. How is the act of painting transformed once we rely upon the mediation of digital data to depict an actual physical landscape? The exhibition thus refers to the ontological consequences of such digital mediation in our relationship to the Earth and its implications in terms of vision and image production. While the series, named after the Kaf Mountain, emphasises a mythological narrative, each painting in the "Kaf" series takes its title from the latitude and longitude values defining the position of the images on Google Earth. Akagündüz offers us views over the peaks of the Alpide Belt, spreading across three continents, and provides us with the coordinates of the Kaf Mountains at the same time. In juxtaposing mathematical exactitude with the perceptually challenging monochromatic use of the colour white, Akagündüz's intention is to explore the minimal conditions of visual representation. The "Kaf" series, in its search for a language using different shades of white, winnows down the minimal conditions of pictorial representation to a bare-bones relationship between light and shade and approaches the threshold of visual perception. In the "Kaf" paintings, the line of the horizon is either invisible or it escapes the eye by merging with the upper corner of the canvas. Adopting a satellite view of the Earth the paintings represent a vertical, groundless perspective. As the horizon is nowhere to be found, our sense of being grounded in space is unsettled and a sense of vertigo sets in. This vertigo effect is also echoed in the spatial construction of the exhibition through a subtle intervention on the walls delineating the first floor of Arter. The "Kaf" paintings bring the process of emergence of image to the eye and to memory, between appearance and disappearance, through reverberations in time. At first sight, these appear to be abstract fragments that are difficult to read in terms of their relationships of scale to the reality they were cut off from. The even distribution of light on the entire surface and its movements through various shades of white, by evading the eye, catch and hold the gaze. The stains, which slip away and alter the moment we think we have caught an image, are contiguous with the void and create a silent space of tension. Vertigo denotes the dizziness and loss of balance felt when a subject or the objects surrounding them appear to be moving in space. As reflected through Murat Akagündüz' "Kaf" series, vertigo is a relational phenomenon, it points both to a spatial disorientation on psychological and physiological levels, and to an uncertainty regarding subject-object relationships as perceived within space. By opening up a space for silent contemplation, the paintings invite the viewer to sense the new possibilities found in this loss of ground and thus produce a new perception of the world.

Bookshop Khalkedon Books, IOBA, ESA · Istanbul, TR38,02 €

Mura, Gianni - Sanna, Antonello (a cura di)MareMagnum

Paesi e Città della Sardegna, vol. I, I Paesi

Mm 250x320 Volume rilegato in tela con sovraccoperta, 336 pagine profusamente illustrate con figure e carte a colori. Copia pari al nuovo; spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.

Salvalibro Snc · Foligno, IT37,00 €

Munster SebastianMareMagnum

Das Heilig Landt mit aufzcheilung ....

Carta geografica raffigurante il territorio della Terra Santa

Libreria Trippini Sergio · Gavirate, IT400,00 €

Munn, Orson D.MareMagnum

Scientific American October 1931 Volume 144 Number 1

Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book

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