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Jedinečné lektvary a zvláštní představy Alchymistický přístup k odhalování podstaty a složení hmotného světa odpradávna přitahoval zkoumavé mysli a během středověku se pátráním po "kameni mudrců" zabývali nejslavnější badatelé. Knížka Alchymistova kuchyně uvádí čtenáře do tajuplného světa tohoto oboru a do jeho těžko proniknutelného jazyka, klíčových pojmů a metod. Obsahuje i četné alchymistické recepty na lepidla, laky a barvy včetně návodů na přípravu bylinných tinktur a extraktů, ale neopomíjí ani nezbytnou duchovní složku v podobě magických formulí.

Following the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, a compendium of six titles on art and design in the acclaimed Wooden Books series appears here in one volume.

With more than half the population of the US not believing that humans are descended from apes, and to prepare the way for the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of the Species throughout 2009, Wooden Books proudly presents the smallest, most up to date little book on evolution ever assembled. Covering the story of Darwin's great idea, science writer Gerard Cheshire explores the evolutionary path of neo-Darwinism itself and shows how Lamarckian ideas still have a role to play in evolutionary theory. With a rich array of rarely published period prints from the Jennings Collection in Bath, and examples of the the latest genetic research this book asks some huge questions about life in the universe and includes the following - The causes of genetic from Mendel to mitosis. - Sexual selection - how the peaock got its tail. - Mimicry and camouflage, miracles made easy over time. - Simple biotics, prions, viruses and bacteria - examples of adaptive DNA. - Unlike outcomes - the success of altruistic strategies. - Convergent evolution. Why sharks are the same shape in different seas. - Natural selection, the reason for death, and modern systems designs. - The cosmological anthropic principle, and how the entire universe could be an evolved system.

Výpravná a graficky působivá kniha nás seznamuje s vývojem porozumění anatomii lidského těla. Výklad se pohybuje v prostoru od indických čaker a čínských akupunkturních drah až po poslední objevy medicíny, od jednobuněčného embrya po dospělého jednice a seznamuje nás s hlavními orgánovými systémy a jejich kooperací, rolí mikroorganismů i cholesterolu při látkové výměně, důvody zrcadlového vztahu mezi ledvinami a plicemi i fungováním dědičnosti. Velké množství půvabných starých rytin i novodobých ilustrací přispěje k tomu, že se k poučení přidá i estetický prožitek.

The quadrivium consists of the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. They synthesize number, space, and time. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and comology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths, good and beautiful everywhere at all times. Life across the universe investigates them. They foreshadow the physical sciences. This is the first volume to bring together the quadrivium in many hundreds of years.--Publisher description

Venus draws a beautiful pentagram around Earth every eight years. Jupiter's two largest moons draw a perfect four-fold flower. The Planets grandly play out the slow Music of the Spheres. Is there a secret structure hidden in the Solar System? Packed with great illustrations and serious research from many sources, this internationally bestselling pocket book by cosmologist John Martineau will instantly retune your cosmological circuits to the extraordinary and primary patterns behind Life, the Universe and Everything. WOODEN BOOKS US EDITIONS. Small books, BIG ideas. Tiny but packed with information. “Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST.

Kniha o mnoha ilustracích pojednává o jednom z největších fenoménů nejen dnešní doby. Ukazuje, že onen tajemný poměr délek je téměř všude a odkrývá to, jak nás v našem podvědomí ovládá. Fí nalezneme v umění, přírodě i spotřebních věcech vyrobených lidmi.

Why on earth do cars have the same symmetry as dragonflies? Is there really a beautiful swirling pattern lurking in every dripping tap? What do insect eggs have in common with planets, and why? This book introduces the main principles of symmetry, and shows how symmetry can be found in almost every corner of science, nature and human culture.

Geometrie ist die Ausweitung der Zahlen in den Raum. Ein Punkt beginnt seine Reise, wird zu einer Linie und entwickelt sich zu einer Form. Kaum eine Wissenschaft ist so fundamental für das menschliche Leben wie die Geometrie. Zeichnungen illustrieren die Prinzipien des Goldenen Schnitts, den Entwurf des magischen Steinzirkels Stonehenge und das Dekor von Moscheen und Kirchenfenstern. Miranda Lundys Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Bedeutung der Geometrie für die menschliche Kultur bis heute.

Packed with information on everything from Supernovae to Galaxy Clusters and Black Holes, as well as all the latest theories about how it might have come into being, this is probably the densest, and certainly the greenest book ever written on the Universe in the Universe. It is printed in sepia inks on recycled papers.

Proč se setkáváme s draky takřka ve všech lidských kulturách? Jaké geomantické poklady draci střeží? Ve skvostně vypravené knížce vypráví Joyce Hargreavesová příběhy těchto pozoruhodných živočichů ze všech koutů světa.

This title presents the elements of music in a way that is pedagogically clear and comprehensible by building upon simple principles of proportion and relationship.

The only small, popular book on the important subject of ancient calendars. The study of heavenly cycles is common to most ancient cultures. The ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Babylonians all tried to make sense of the year. But it fell to the later Mesoamerican Maya to create a series of calendars that could be cross referenced. In doing so, the Maya discovered many strange numerical harmonics. Their lunar calendar was extremely accurate--far more so than the Greek Metonic cycle; they tracked Venus to an accuracy of less than a day in five hundred years and their tables could have been used to predict eclipses seven hundred years in the future. This book will provide a much needed compact guide to the Mayan calendar systems as well as covering the essentials of calendar development throughout the world.

Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa, Trivium combines six small books on the classical subjects of a liberal education.The trivium refers to the three liberal arts considered in classical Greece to be the pillars of critical thought: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Following on the success of Quadrivium and Sciencia, Trivium gathers six Wooden Books titles together into a beautiful six-color package that presents ancient wisdom in an accessible way. Trivium includes the books Euphonics, Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric,, Poetic Meter and Form, and Ethics.

The remains of a once-wealthy and learned tribal community, this book discusses Stonehenge and it's many uses in archaeology, astronomy, geometry and even shamanism. Illustrations.

This tiny book is a beautiful and thought-provoking guide to the mazes and labyrinths of Great Britain.

Eins für die Einheit, Zwei für den Gegensatz, Drei für die Menge - die Symbolik der Zahlen ist so alt wie die Vorstellung von Zahlen selbst. Schon unsere Urahnen ritzten sie in den Stein. Im Mittelalter schrieb man ihnen magische Bedeutung zu. Architektur, Geometrie oder Astronomie wären ohne sie undenkbar. Miranda Lundy verwebt alte Weisheit mit neuer Erkenntnis. Sie erzählt uns, warum Pythagoras noch immer von Bedeutung ist, warum die Fünf für das Leben steht und die Elf für den Kreis.

Vorbei die Zeit, da jeder von uns über die neuesten Entwicklungen in der Wissenschaft immer im Bilde war. Neue Erkenntnisse und Theorien folgen einander seit dem letzten Jahrhundert in atemberaubendem Tempo. Quarks und Quasare, Epigenetik und Spintronik… Wer dabei am Ball bleiben möchte, kann auf elementares naturwissenschaftliches Grundwissen nicht verzichten. Zum Glück gibt es SCIENCIA: prächtig illustriert und voll faszinierender und nützlicher Informationen - das ultimative, kompakte wissenschaftliche Nachschlagewerk für neugierige Leser aller Altersklassen. SCIENCIA ist die unentbehrliche Wissensquelle für alle die Ihre naturwissenschaftlichen Kenntnisse auffrischen und auf dem Gebiet er Mathematik, Physik, Chemie, Biologie, und Astronomie auf dem laufenden bleiben wollen.

Wie sagt man Sonnenfinsternisse am Stonehenge voraus? Warum folgen die Ausrichtungen von Carnac geologischen Verwerfungen? Wurde Avebury absichtlich genau ein Siebtel eines Kreises vom geografischen Nordpol entfernt platziert? Warum sind so viele Steinkreise eiförmig oder abgeflacht? Was bedeuten die Designs in der prähistorischen Felskunst? Muss man wirklich neunzehn Jahre warten, um die abgelegene Stätte von Callanish zu besuchen? Was trieben die Alten? Dies sind unsere ältesten Gebäude, unsere ersten Botschaften, unsere früheste visuelle Kunst. Megalith ist eine zeitlose und wertvolle Quelle für alle, die sich für die Vorgeschichte interessieren.

Every organism on Earth responds to four major cycles: the solar and lunar day, the synodic month and the year. We all dance to these primary rhythms. This book reveals the poetic cosmology that lies within the cycles of the Sun and Moon as seen from the Earth.

Mathematician Matthew Watkins and illustrator Matt Tweed have compressed almost every familiar equation from mathematics and physics into one tiny book. A quick, fun, stylish reference book with appeal to anyone interested in the sciences. schovat popis

'Essential Elements', written by Matt Tweed, introduces the reader to the complex and beautiful world of the particles everything around is us are made from.

With eight authors, and packed with detailed information and exquisite rare illustrations, Megalith is a timeless and valuable sourcebook for anyone interested in prehistory.

How do you tell what's right from what's wrong? Can you always? What's the difference between deduction, induction and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound?

In this exquisite pocket book, author and artist Adam Tetlow shows us the practical tricks of the trade and the hidden principles behind the ancient magical science of Celtic artwork. With examples from both early and later periods, illustrations by the author and rare engravings.

What is a tree? Why are they so important to life on Earth? How do they eat, breathe, grow, communicate, and regenerate themselves? Here, Finnish tree expert Professor Olavi Huikari takes us on a journey deep into the secrets of these hugely important and most majestic of Earth's life forms.

Sutton guides the reader through the once treasured principles of ruler and compass constructions, used for centuries by architects, carpenters, stonemasons and master craftsmen. Instruction is given on how to draw heptograms, heptakaidecagons, circles inside triangles and many more artistic geometric shapes.

Is there a geometrical energy system that surrounds our planet? - a super grid involving polyhedral forms, ley lines, earth energy currents and archaeoastronomical alignments? From ET flight-paths to anti-gravity, the grid has many claims attached to it. This book unravels the many theories to give an overview of this incredible subject.

Across the Islamic world, illuminating Korans from Morocco to Malaysia, are hidden some of the most exquisite geometrical devices ever conceived by man. In this excellent little book, geometer Daud Sutton unravels the mystery of Islamic patterns, explaining where they come from, how to draw them, and hinting at the Divine messages they encode.

A thinking person's guide to reality.The science of perspective has informed the representational and decorative arts since their inception, and its gradual perfection during the Renaissance was as important an event as any of the other mathematical and scientific developments of the time. Beginning with the evolution of visual perspective, Phoebe McNaughton reveals how and why illusions work in the first place. Questioning the idea that what we see is actually what is out there, she offers further optical illusions to suggest to readers that the world they perceive is in fact a complex product of their brain, constructed from the sensory data. Closing with various magical, theological, and atmospheric illusions and a further philosophical discussion of the nature of reality, Perspective will appeal widely to artists, designers, architects, and anyone interested in the visual or graphic arts.

Do particular sounds have particular magical effects? Discussing this question, this book talks about the deadly daggers of D, the trivialising teasing taunts of T and the nagging nasal negatives associated with N. It is useful for orators, poets and sorcerers, and is humorously illustrated by Guardian cartoonist, Merrily Harpur.

How does mankind deal with miracles? This question has assumed a more-than-theoretical importance in the life of Michael Glickman, who has been witnessing the miraculous on a regular basis since he investigated his first crop circle in 1990. In the years since then, an intensive study of the crop-circle phenomenon in the region of its most important appearances—the English countryside—has given Glickman extraordinary personal insight into a subject usually known only through secondhand reports and speculation.More than eight years in the writing, Crop The Bones of God is unique among books on this modern enigma in that it combines the author’s firsthand field encounters with some of the most famous crop-circle formations (such as Alton Barnes 1990 and Silbury Hill 1997, as well as more recent circles) with intricate and dazzling analyses of the structure and content of those formations. This beautifully illustrated mix of personal narrative with detailed study informs a larger discussion of the role of crop circles in the modern world and their unprecedented promise of new chapters in the history of consciousness.

The six bestselling Wooden Books dealing with the numerical Liberal Arts are here bound in one volume

Avebury is the largest stone circle on Earth! Silbury Hill is as old as the Great Pyramid! Packed with rare old engravings and great new research this timeless pocket guide to Europe's most extensive neolithic complex will leave you informed, intrigued and inspired!

Víte, který slavný důkaz byl vytesán na Archimedův náhrobek? Proč tvoří uzly dokonalé pětiúhelníky? Zdál se vám už někdy nějaký důkaz zcela zřejmý? Burkhard Polster vytáhl ze zaprášených análů dějin matematiky na světlo světa několik nesmírně názorných matematických důkazů a nabízí Vám je v této nádherné knížce, která obsahuje asi 40 ilustrací. Vyzkoušejte svoji schopnost sledovat logickou strukturu matematického důkazu a nenechte si ujít prožitek jedné Heuréky za druhou.