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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0020005105
ISBN-13: 9780020005100
Oct 1993
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Language: English |
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| Size | | Height: | 11.8 in | | Width: | 9.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 39.2 oz |
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Science writer Hawkes provides informative, non-technical accounts of the origin, design, and construction of 43 of the most ambitious structures ever built -- the oldest being by the Egyptians and the newest the huge scientific instruments in Chile and Switzerland designed to study the infinities of space and the infinitesimal structure of the atom. Even the illustrations are awesome -- some 500 photographs, diagrams, drawings and etchings, all in color. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The origin, design, and construction of the most massive and most ambitious human-created structures around the world, recounted in an informative text and illustrated with first-rate photographs, working diagrams, cutaway drawings, and etchings. A paperback reprint of the 1990 cloth edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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