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| Titolo: | Machine room of the Gods : how our future was invented : an exhibition by the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8 March to 10 September 2023 / edited by Vinzenz Brinkmann. |
| Pubblicazione: | München : Deutscher Kunstverlag, c2023. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 296 p. : ill. ; 26 cm |
| Note: | Catalogo della Mostra |
| Contiene: | Indice: Foreword / Karin Wolff. Preface / Philipp Demandt. 1. How our future was invented: an introduction to the Frankfurt exhibition Machine room of the gods / Vinzenz Brinkmann. Pt. 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia: 1. Learned Egypt: a brief overview / Vinzenz Brinkmann 2. The beginnings of astronomy in Mesopotamia / Lis Brack-Bernsen 3. Techno-science in Mesopotamia myth and imagination / Shiyanthi Thavapalan. Pt. 2. The Greek myths: 4. Imagining ancient automata: mythic masterminds / Adrienne Mayor 5. Love is inventive: the wall paintings in the casa dei vettii in Pompeii / Jacob Salzmann. Pt. 3. Greece and Rome: 6. Astrophysics and polytheism in Aristotle / Oliver Primavesi 7. The automata of Greek and Roman antiquity / Vinzenz Brinkmann 8. Nero's revolving banquet hall / Françoise Villedieu 9. On oxos, evros and pharmaka metallica: an ancient Greek perspective on biotechnology for new pharmaceuticals, fifth to third century BCE / Effie Photos-Jones. Pt. 4. Sphaira: 10. Sphaira: the world as sphere / Vinzenz Brinkmann 11. A statue of the goddess of the hunt as a static planetarium? / Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Pt. 5. Antikythera mechanism: 12. The astonishing antikythera mechanism: decoding an ancient Greek calculating machine / Tony Freeth. Pt. 6. Arabic-Islamic cultural sphere and Asia: 13. The golden age of the sciences in the heyday of Islam, including the Timurid Renaissance: a brief introduction / Vinzenz Brinkmann, 14. The translation of Greek heritage and the development of scientific language in Arabic / Roshdi Rashed 15. Automata in the Islamic world: eight to thirteenth century / Martina Müller-Wiener 16. Knowledge in ancient Asia: a brief insight / Vinzenz Brinkmann. Pt. 7. European modern era: 17. The measuring of the world during the modern era in Europe and its dependence on antiquity and the Arabic-Islamic cultural sphere: a brief excursus / Vinzenz Brinkmann. List of works. Bibliography. Image credits. Credits |
| ISBN: | 9783422996366 |
| Altri autori: | Brinkmann, Vinzenz.
Wolff, Karin. Brack-Bernsen, Lis. Thavapalan, Shiyanthi. Mayor, Adrienne. Salzmann, Jakob. Primavesi, Oliver. Villedieu, Françoise. Photos-Jones, Effie. Koch-Brinkmann, Ulrike. Freeth, Tony. Rashed, Roshdi, 1936- Müller-Wiener, Martina. |
| Discipline: | Arte e scienza--Musei, esposizioni e collezionismo. Tecnologia--Musei, esposizioni e collezionismo. |
| Collocazione: | Cons. Esposizioni 2023/ 07 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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