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Chargement... Designs Underfoot: The Art of Manhole Covers in New York Citypar Diana Stuart
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Peter Kalm (1716–79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie' - the economic application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany, zoology and chemistry - at the university of Turku. Between 1747 and 1751 he set out on a journey through eastern North America to gather specimens, especially from regions with a similar climate to Sweden. Because Kalm travelled though the area when much of it was still unknown to Europeans, this work has some of the first recorded accounts of places such as Niagara Falls. Kalm played an important part in forging scientific links between Sweden, England and North America. This three-volume work details his travels, and was first published in English in 1770–1. Volume 2 gives detailed descriptions of the plants and animals Kalm observes in New Jersey and New York. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)739.48The arts Sculpture and related arts Art metal-work IronworkClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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It details interesting, heavily decorated or idiosyncratic NYC coal chute, telegraph company, aqueduct, etc "man hole" covers. Listed in a nice vertical layout are: locations (seemingly most extensively covered in BKLN), details of their novelty, the functions of associated tunnels, biographies of their foundry owner makers.
It reads two ways. One is as a five star novelty guide to these nuanced iron crowns, their people and duties. The flipside view is that is a starting block for questions on the philosophy of (this book and its author's) being. ( )