Hugh Aldersey-Williams Bücher

Die Wiederentdeckung eines vergessenen Genies: Wie der Niederländer Christian Huygens die Grundlagen der modernen Naturwissenschaft legte Das 17. Jahrhundert war das Goldene Zeitalter für die Niederlande. Es zog Künstler und Geschäftsleute ebenso an wie Gelehrte und Naturforscher. Im Zentrum dieser intellektuellen Blüte stand ein Mann, dessen Schaffen sämtliche Zeitgenossen in den Schatten stellte – und der doch in Vergessenheit geraten ist: Christiaan Huygens, Erfinder von Teleskopen und der mechanischen Uhr, Entdecker des Saturnrings, Vater der Wellentheorie des Lichts, Bekannter von Descartes, Newton und Spinoza, Lehrer von Leibniz und Erbe einer in ganz Europa bestens vernetzten Dynastie. Hugh Aldersey-Williams zeichnet ein schillerndes Porträt eines außerordentlichen Mannes und einer bewegten Epoche, ohne die die Welt heute eine andere wäre. Eine packende Geschichte über die vergessenen Wurzeln der modernen Naturwissenschaft.

An overview of the design work of the students, designers-in-residence, and alumni of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, for the period 1980 to 1990

A quirky trend of building designs inspired by bizarre animals has emerged in the last few years. Why and how has this happened? Is it because of new technical possibilities in materials and structural engineering? Or is the answer to be found in new social preoccupations in science? After a brief look at the historical precedents, the book focuses on contemporary examples from around the world and shows the various ways in which the organic/animal forms inform the architectural ones. Featured architects include Frank Gehry, Michael Sorkin, and Greg Lynn.

»Ein Lesevergnügen.« The Sunday Times Ebbe und Flut faszinieren die Menschen seit jeher und beflügeln die Fantasie. Trotz aller heutigen Erkenntnisse bergen die Gezeiten noch viele Geheimnisse. Schon Aristoteles brachte ihre Unberechenbarkeit zur Weißglut, und ihre zerstörerische Kraft wird die Menschheit in Zukunft noch stärker betreffen. Eine spannende Entdeckungsreise in große Hafenstädte, an entlegene Küsten, auf und in die Weltmeere. Anschaulich und mit viel Witz präsentiert er eine Fülle vielfältiger Fundstücke aus Naturwissenschaft, persönlichen Beobachtungen, Mythologie, Geschichte und Literatur.

Including facts, stories and information drawn from across history, science, art and literature - from finger-prints to angel physiology, from Isaac Newton's death-mask to the afterlife of Einstein's brain, this title explores our relationship with our bodies and investigates our changing attitudes to the extraordinary physical shell we inhabit.

Everything is made of them, from the furthest reaches of the universe to this book that you hold in your hands, including you. Like you, the elements have lives: personalities and attitudes, talents and shortcomings, stories rich with meaning. You may think of them as the inscrutable letters of the periodic table but you know them much better than you realise. Welcome to a dazzling tour through history and literature, science and art. Here you'll meet iron that rains from the heavens and noble gases that light the way to vice. You'll learn how lead can tell your future while zinc may one day line your coffin. You'll discover what connects the bones in your body with the Whitehouse in Washington, the glow of a streetlamp with the salt on your dinner table. From ancient civilisations to contemporary culture, from the oxygen of publicity to the phosphorus in your pee, the elements are near and far and all around us. Unlocking their astonishing secrets and colourful pasts, Periodic Tales will take you on a voyage of wonder and discovery, excitement and novelty, beauty and truth. Along the way, you'll find that their stories are our stories, and their lives are inextricable from our own.