- Bib ID:
- 8079056
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Akkadia Press, 2018
- ©2018
- 75, 75 pages : illustrations (chiefly coloured), maps (some coloured), portraits (chiefly coloured) ; 30 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780995689084 (hardback)
- 0995689083 (hardback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. The invention of the sphere
- 2. The sphere of the Caesars and Emperors
- 3. The sphere in the Islamic world (8th-17th centuries)
- 4. The sphere in the medieval West (9th-15th centuries)
- 5. The triumph of the spherical model (16th century)
- 6. Globe production (17th century)
- 7. Power, knowledge and vanity : the multiple meanings of the globe in Western art
- 8. Spheres in revolution (17th-18th centuries)
- 9. Spheres in metamorphosis (19th-20th centuries)
- 10. In the infinite universe.
- Notes:
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- Exhibition curated by Catherine Hofmann and François Nawrocki, and posthumously by Jean-Yves Sarazin.
- Parallel title and text in English and French. Additional title page and text in Arabic. Arabic language section of volume bound and paged separately.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
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- La Bretesche, Geneviève de, editor
- Farcy, Elisabeth de, editor
- Al Houchi, Moussa, translator
- Stroud, Timothy, translator
- Hofmann, Catherine, 1966-, curator, writer of foreword
- Nawrocki, François, curator, writer of foreword
- Sarazin, Jean-Yves, curator
- Louvre Abu Dhabi, host institution
- Bibliothèque nationale (France), host institution
- Also Titled:
- Monde en sphères
- Exhibited:
- "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Globes: visions of the world, organised by Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Agence France-Muséums, held at Louvre Abu Dhabi from 23 March to 2 June 2018 and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during Spring 2019" -- Page 6.
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