Art Treasures of Turkey
Art Treasures of Turkey

Author: Smithsonian Institution

Publisher:

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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The works of art presented in this Bulletin were chosen from the Museum's collections to parallel or complement those shown in the exhibition Art Treasures of Turkey. The material is grouped in two sections: the first is devoted to objects made by people who lived in what we call Turkey, though they may have known it as Lydia or Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire. The second section is devoted to Western works that depict the Turks or imitate their art.

The Origins of Chemistry
The Origins of Chemistry

Author: Robert P. Multhauf

Publisher: Langhorne, Pa., USA : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 446

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"The Origins of Chemistry" integrates the histories of Greek, Arabic, and Latin alchemical traditions with philosophy, technology, and the genesis of medical chemistry. Multhauf differs from his predecessors by finding the sources of chemistry not in medieval alchemy, but in the "chemical" science of matter described in antiquity. This landmark study, which concludes with the field's reorganization by Lavoisier and his contemporaries, contains an exceptional bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Robert P. Multhauf is retired from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., where he was Director of the Museum of History and Technology.

The Temper of Our Time
The Temper of Our Time

Author: Eric Hoffer

Publisher: Hopewell Publications Llc

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781933435220

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Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Temper of Our Time examines the influence of the juvenile mentality, the rise of automation, the black revolution, the regression of the back-to-nature movement, the intellectual vs. learning, and other relevent issues.