Download or read book Jade Gemstones A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins Structure Properties and Uses of Jade written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of gemology and crystallography. The titles in this range include "Gemstone Manufacturing" "The Optical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals" "The Thirty-Two Classes of Crystal Symmetry" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Jade Gemstones" contains information on their properties, origins, structure and much more. Intended to illustrate the main features of jade it is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and to understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Jade written by Christine Petersen and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces young readers to jade, the mineral used for thousands of years as both jewelry and weapons. ?Learn about the two types of jade, jadeite and nephrite, how jade is formed, and where it is found. ?Historical and modern mining methods are detailed. ?The many uses of jade in ancient and modern times are examined. ? See how artisans such as lapidaries use jade to create beautiful and useful jewelry. ?Finally, a list of tools and tips will set young rock hounds up to unearth their own treasures. ?Glossary words in bold, an index, and phonetic spellings for those hard-to-pronounce geologic terms enhance and supplement the text. ?Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. ?Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Download or read book Emerald Gemstones A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins Structure Properties and Uses of Emeralds written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of gemology and crystallography. The titles in this range include "Gemstone Manufacturing" "The Optical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals" "The Thirty-Two Classes of Crystal Symmetry" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Emerald Gemstones" contains information on their properties, origins, structure and much more. Intended to illustrate the main features of emeralds it is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and to understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard Stones written by John Getz and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jade written by Roger Keverne and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD RECUMBENT HORSE Chinese, Ming Dynasty. 1 Length: 3 /2 in (9 em). The formation of the head with its marked convexity of outline resembles that of one depicted on a mural painting in a Northern Song tomb, discovered at Pai-Sha in Honan. Despite its size, this horse has a strong sculptural quality. Worked from pale green jade with light brown markings. t has been said that a single daily issue of a newspaper effort to survey the jade scene worldwide. These volumes such as The New York Times, Neue Zurcher Zeitung or Le were bigger than was necessary considering the amount of Monde contains more information than someone text included (measuring 24 x 18 inches, 61 x 46 cm, and living in the 17th century would have faced in a lifetime. weighing 110 lb (50 kg) together), and Bishop was not Jade scholarship cannot escape the information explosion interested in wide dissemination of the subject. He printed of our century. Our knowledge on the subject of jade has only 106 copies, none of which was for sale, and then des been radically expanded in two directions, from the past troyed the plates. The copies were sent to important libra and in the present, and a definitive survey bringing together ries, museums and crowned heads around the world. As the latest research from around the world is long overdue.
Download or read book The Immortal Stone written by James C. S. Lin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interesting History of Jade written by Emily Stehr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting History of Jade Word Origin and History of Jade:
Download or read book The Stone of Heaven written by Adrian Levy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jade a Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion written by Berthold Laufer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two minerals nephrite and jadeite, popularly comprised under the name jade, belong to the hardest and most cherished materials of which primitive man availed himself in shaping his chisels, hatchets, ornaments, amulets and many other implements. Such objects, partially of considerable antiquity, have been found in many parts of the world--in Asia, New Zealand, in prehistoric Europe and America. -- Introduction.
Download or read book Garnet Gemstones A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins Structure and Properties of Garnet written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of gemology and crystallography. The titles in this range include "Gemstone Manufacturing" "The Optical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals" "The Thirty-Two Classes of Crystal Symmetry" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Garnet Gemstones" contains information on their properties, origins, structure and much more. Intended to illustrate the main features of garnet it is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and to understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Download or read book Jade and the Antique Use of Gems written by Herbert P. Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Jade written by Li Hongjuan and published by Shanghai Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully photographed Chinese art book is a comprehensive exploration of jade and its history in China from the Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty. To the Chinese people, jade is a precious stone endowed with magical properties which encapsulated all that mankind aspires to in terms of character, elegance, tranquility, purity and virtue. The Chinese love jade not merely because of its rarity or its luster but because of a deeper aesthetic value. Chinese Jade: The Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China presents a comprehensive view of jade and its history in China from Neolithic times to the Qing dynasty. It illustrates pieces of jade that are on display not only in the Palace Museum in Beijing but in the many provincial and other museums across China. It will help the reader to understand what jade means to the Chinese in China; how it is classified and described and where it is found and worked and displayed. It has a value beyond that of a simple catalog and places jade in its natural, and central, cultural context.
Download or read book Chinese Jade written by Frank Davis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gemmology is the science of natural and artificial gems and gemstones, considered to be a geoscience and a branch of mineralogy. Although a profession in its own right, gemmology is often studied by jewellers to augment their abilities of gem identification. This comprehensive guide concentrates on the history of Jade in China, and includes the chapters: The Chou Dynasty; The Classic Age of Jade Carving—from Han to Sung; From Sung to Ming; From Ming Onwards; The Material Aspect of Jade; Jade Objects of the Chou Dynasty Tabulated from Laufer; Note on the Lo-Yang Tombs; and Common Symbols. This rare text constitutes a definitive guide on the subject and will greatly appeal to gemmologists and collectors of rare gemmological texts. This book has been elected for republication due to its immense educational value, and is proudly republished here with a new introduction on the topic.
Download or read book Early Chinese Jades written by Una Pope-Hennessy and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stone of Heaven written by Adrian Levy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: cription329 Diamonds, sapphires and rubies are commonly thought to be the world¿s most valuable gemstones but there is another that is even more precious. It is Imperial Green Jade, or jadeite. The stone's prestige derives from its intense beauty and extraordinary scarcity. Almost all of the world's jadeite comes from one place: a valley in the shadow of the Himalayas, buried deep in the bedrock of the most remote mining area in the world. Since its discovery nearly 2,000 years ago, Imperial Green Jade has been worshipped, ingested and traded. Inspired by legends of a gemstone 'that glowed as if lit by a hidden flame', armies have waged wars to seize its source, First Ladies have flaunted it and Hollywood stars have spent fortunes on pieces stolen from the tombs of Chinese Emperors. Royal collectors believed it could make them immortal. Warlords ground it into powder and drunk it as an elixir. Revolutionaries exploited it to fund coups and finance wars. For European explorers, it was legendary. Those who returned from Burma in the fifteenth century came with stories of a kingdom built entirely from the green stone, a place they called the Lost Valley of Capelan. Today foreigners are barred from the place in northern Burma known as 'Jadeland', where thousands of soldiers guard the dictatorship's treasures. In order to be the first Europeans ever to get there, Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark had to persuade Rangoon's generals to escort them. This book reveals how they did so and in its final chapters takes the reader on a terrifying journey to the Lost Valley of Capelan. What they discovered was jadeite's biggest secret: a human disaster of biblical proportions. The Stone of Heaven brilliantly combines original historical research, travelogue and investigative journalism to relate for the first time this hidden history. It is the story of a gem that changed the lives of all who owned it and shaped the destiny of nations that sought to control its source.
Download or read book Stones from Heaven written by Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amber Gemstones A Collection of Historical Articles on the Origins Properties and Uses of Amber written by Various and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subjects of gemology and crystallography. The titles in this range include "Gemstone Manufacturing" "The Optical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals" "The Thirty-Two Classes of Crystal Symmetry" and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, "Amber Gemstones" contains information on their properties, origins, uses and much more. Intended to illustrate the main features of amber it is a comprehensive guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the subject and to understand the field in its historical context. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
