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ISBN: 0691048746 9780691048741 0691115893 0691225354 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
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"In 2004, Venus will cross the sun's face for the first time since 1882. Some will not bother to step outside. Others will plan for years, reserving airline tickets to see the transit in its entirety. But even this group of astronomers and experience seekers will be attracted not by scientific purpose but by the event's beauty, rarity, and perhaps - after this book - history. For previous sky-watchers, though, transits afforded the only chance to determine the all-important astronomical unit: the mean distance between earth and sun." "Eli Maor tells the intriguing tale of the five Venus transits observed by humans and the fantastic efforts made to record them. This is the story of heroes and cowards, of reputations earned and squandered, told against a backdrop of phenomenal geopolitical and scientific change. Throughout, Maor guides readers to the upcoming Venus transits in 2004 and 2012, opportunities to witness a phenomenon seen by no living person and not to be repeated until 2117"--Jacket.
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Köln
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Year: 2000 Publisher: Reston, VA : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,
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ISBN: 0719055229 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,
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This fascinating volume takes as its starting point the recurrent motif of the figure of Venus and the associated figure of Cupid in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day, and uses it to raise issues of art, gender and sexuality. Each essay brings a particular moment into vivid focus, looking at specific works of painting, sculpture, design or photography. Approached as a manifestly historical problem, the theme of art and sexuality is also addressed in ways informed by certain theoretical discussions in feminism.
ISBN: 0719055210 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,
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mythologische figuren --- seksualiteit --- Venus (godin). --- Wtewael, Joachim. --- Bouchardon, Edmé. --- Journiac, Michel.
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ISBN: 9090142495 Year: 2000
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Iconography --- Sculpture --- bulls [animals] --- Equus caballus [species] --- warriors --- heads [representations] --- sculpting --- romantic partners --- musicians --- Gaia --- Psyche [Mythological character] --- Beatrix [Queen of the Netherlands] --- Bemelmans, Fons --- Venus [Mythological character] --- Medusa [Mythological character] --- Netherlands
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