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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences
ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings
This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...
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Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables
In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...
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Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...
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Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...
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£84,00
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Field Guide to Snow
ISBN: PB: 9781602234147, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
140 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates
People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible...
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Mantle of the Earth Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor
ISBN: HB: 9780226741291, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 71 halftones
The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between t...
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Mapping Nature across the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...
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Blind Maps and Blue Dots The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information
ISBN: PB: 9783037786581, Lars Muller Publishers, November 2020
192 pp., 30x22 cm, 47 illus.
The shift towards digital modes of production has fundamentally changed both cartography and graphic design. The omni-present computer, the interactive possibilities of digital media and the direct exchange of visual information through networks have...
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Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution
ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings
What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...
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Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones
The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...
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