From Sight to Light: The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics, Paperback - A. Mark Smith

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do....

Publisher: Peter Owen PublishersAuthor(s): Richard CorsonNumber of pages: 644Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 255 x 200 x 41Cover type: Paperback ...

Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough loaves to its citizens to maintain p...

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Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context.Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd...

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An extensive examination of the history of gnosticism and how its philosophy has influenced the Western esoteric tradition - Explains how the Gnost...

A humorous, illustrated guide to 'new stuff', including vocabulary, for older people.

In the late 1960s, thousands of young people all over America left their homes and headed to the West Coast. They drove in vans, hitchhiked, and ro...

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"In From Nowhere to Nowhere Bekim Sejranovic gives us the elegiac beauties echoing over the vanishing times and places, inviting us to reflect and ...

From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis to our own time, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influen...

Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Alistair ShearerIllustration(s): 27 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 456Publication date: 2022...

The Dragon in the West is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of the history of the image and idea of the dragon. A creature popular in...

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A profusely illustrated history of the occult nature of the tarot from its origins in ancient Persia - Thoroughly examines the original historical ...

How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's...

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKIllustration(s): 883 photographsNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 243 x 287 x 33C...

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DescriptionFrom the very first words in our Bible, God has given us the history of creation, the history of the nations, and the glorious history o...