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Da Vinci's Ghost

Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image

de Toby Lester ...

In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment.”**—* ... Leer más

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In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo da Vinci, one of history’s most fascinating figures.Deftly weaving together art, architecture, history, theology, and much else, Da Vinci's Ghost is a first-rate intellectual enchantment.”**—*
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The Fourth Part of the World

The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

de Toby Lester ...

“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and ... Leer más

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“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name.For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and
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The Fourth Part of the World

The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

de Toby Lester ...

Narrado por Peter Jay Fernandez ...

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15 hora 41 minutos

"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and ... Leer más

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"Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling WaldseemUller world map of 1507." So begins this remarkable story of the map that gave America its name. For millennia Europeans believed that the world consisted of three parts: Europe, Africa, and Asia. They drew the three continents in countless shapes and
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La quatrième partie du monde

de Toby Lester ...

La course aux confins de la Terre et l’histoire épique de la carte qui donnera son nom à l’Amérique.En 2003, la Library of Congress de Washington achète pour la somme de dix millions de dollars la première carte sur laquelle figurait le nom « America ». Elle avait été dessinée en 1507, quinze ans après le voyage de Christophe Colomb, par un cartographe allemand, Martin Waldseemüller, et était ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

La course aux confins de la Terre et l’histoire épique de la carte qui donnera son nom à l’Amérique.En 2003, la Library of Congress de Washington achète pour la somme de dix millions de dollars la première carte sur laquelle figurait le nom « America ». Elle avait été dessinée en 1507, quinze ans après le voyage de Christophe Colomb, par un cartographe allemand, Martin Waldseemüller, et était
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Da Vinci's Ghost

Genius, Obsession, and How Leonardo Created the World in His Own Image

de Toby Lester ...

Narrado por Stephen Hoye ...

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6 hora 20 minutos

Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo daVinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and asquare. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeurof art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the humanspirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffeecups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It ... Leer más

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Everybody knows the picture: a man, meticulously rendered by Leonardo daVinci, standing with arms and legs outstretched in a circle and asquare. Deployed today to celebrate subjects as various as the grandeurof art, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the humanspirit, the drawing turns up just about everywhere: in books, on coffeecups, on corporate logos, even on spacecraft. It
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Majestie

The King Behind the King James Bible

de David Teems ...

Narrado por Bob Souer ...

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7 hora 31 minutos

In the Beginning, James. Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of EnglandÆs Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the majesty of his new reign, he spearheaded the most important literary undertaking in Western historyùthe ... Leer más

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In the Beginning, James. Orphaned, bullied, lonely, and unloved as a boy, in time the young King of Scots overcame his troubled beginnings to ascend the English throne at the height of EnglandÆs Golden Age. In an effort to pacify rising tensions in the Anglican Church, and to reflect the majesty of his new reign, he spearheaded the most important literary undertaking in Western historyùthe
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Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

de Amir Alexander ...

Narrado por Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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10 hora 47 minutos

An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs
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The Feud That Sparked the Renaissance

How Brunelleschi and Ghiberti Changed the Art World

de Paul Robert Walker ...

Narrado por Simon Vance ...

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9 hora 31 minutos

Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the RenaissanceThe dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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Joining the bestsellers Longitude and Galileo’s Daughter, a lively and intriguing tale of two artists whose competitive spirit brought to life one of the world’s most magnificent structures and ignited the RenaissanceThe dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore, the great cathedral of Florence, is among the most enduring symbols of the Renaissance, an equal to the works of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Its
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The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

de David Damrosch ...

Narrado por William Hughes ...

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7 hora 23 minutos

Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British ... Leer más

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Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British
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Evolutions

Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

de Oren Harman ...

Narrado por Oren Harman ...

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5 hora 49 minutos

We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific ... Leer más

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We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific
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Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, The

How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

de Mario Livio ...

Narrado por Tom Parks ...

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11 hora 45 minutos

What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved.For thousands ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

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What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved.For thousands
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The Life Project

The Extraordinary Story of 70,000 Ordinary Lives

de Helen Pearson ...

Narrado por Lucy Archer-Woodcock ...

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9 hora 47 minutos

A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked five generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development. The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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A fascinating account of a scientific project that tracked five generations of children—the longest-ever-running study of human development. The lives of 70,000 people reveal the importance of our beginnings on the greater trajectory of our lives.In March 1946, scientists began to track thousands of children born in one cold week as part of a birth cohort study. No one imagined that this would
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