Download or read book The British Museum in Five Sections Or how to View the Whole at Once written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Museum in Five Sections Or How to View the Whole at Once written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science in the Marketplace written by Aileen Fyfe and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century was an age of transformation in science, when scientists were rewarded for their startling new discoveries with increased social status and authority. But it was also a time when ordinary people from across the social spectrum were given the opportunity to participate in science, for education, entertainment, or both. In Victorian Britain science could be encountered in myriad forms and in countless locations: in panoramic shows, exhibitions, and galleries; in city museums and country houses; in popular lectures; and even in domestic conversations that revolved around the latest books and periodicals. Science in the Marketplace reveals this other side of Victorian scientific life by placing the sciences in the wider cultural marketplace, ultimately showing that the creation of new sites and audiences was just as crucial to the growing public interest in science as were the scientists themselves. By focusing attention on the scientific audience, as opposed to the scientific community or self-styled popularizers, Science in the Marketplace ably links larger societal changes—in literacy, in industrial technologies, and in leisure—to the evolution of “popular science.”
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Parthenon Sculptures written by Ian Dennis Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
Download or read book Masterpieces of the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated edition includes many recent acquisitions and new discoveries, such as Picasso's stunning Vollard Suite and the intriguing Vale of York Viking hoard, and showcases a selection of more than 250 of the most beautiful and important objects drawn from across the Museum. Each object is presented with its own fascinating story and is strikingly illustrated in full colour. From the Warren Cup to Durers Rhinoceros, the Lewis Chessmen to the Aztec turquoise serpent and the Gayer-Anderson Cat, the iconic objects of the British Museum are here presented in an exciting and accessible new way, highlighting the superb craftsmanship and ingenuity of those who created each of these splendid pieces.
Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The General Contents of the British Museum with Remarks Serving as a Directory in Viewing that Noble Cabinet written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1762 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regarding the Dead written by Alexandra Fletcher (Museum curator) and published by British Museum Research Public. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possible solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display.
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short title Catalogue phase 1 1816 1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum Natural History Lower Greenland Aptian plants of Britain by M C Stopes written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Geology and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Artefacts from Malta in the British Museum written by Josef Mario Briffa SJ and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient finds from the Maltese islands are rare, and those held in the British Museum form an important collection. Represented is a wide cultural range, spanning the Early and Late Neolithic, the Bronze Age, Roman and more recent historic periods.
Download or read book The British Encyclopedia written by William Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to see the British museum in 4 visits written by William Blanchard Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
