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Renaissance art and the descriptive science of human anatomy were born at exactly the samemoment in Italy around 1500. Anatomists needed artists to illustrate their books, and artistsneeded anatomists to help them understand the body's structure, movement, and function. Theillustrations which they devised together mark the longest unbroken collaboration betweenscientists and artists in western culture. These "maps of the body" established the basis for thefigurative tradition in painting and sculpture which lasts to this day. The exhibition cataloguereproduces anatomical drawings, prints, and illustrated books, and includes examples bymajor artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Durer, and Rubens but alsothe eloquent illustrations by lesser known artists. The text, written for the interested layman aswell as the specialist, explores popular anatomical broadsheets, the teaching of anatomy toyoung artists, female anatomy as revealing the origins of life, the anatomical dissection theatres, and "anatomy satirized."

Do you ever wish you had a proper constant video light source for your DSLR, iPad 2/3, iPhone 4/4S/5 or Samsung Galaxy, but you're reluctant to lug heavy gear around? Well, the Genius Ingenious Multimedia Pro Light Kit (220VAC) just might be your solution.Upon first hearing the Genius Ingenious name one might think it redundant but once you put the Multimedia Pro Light in the game you'll be searching for superlatives, redundant or not. This is a product that responds directly and succinctly to a specific need - soft bright light for shooting video with your DSLR or digital devices. These devices are so popular because they have powerful features in a small, lightweight form factor and the fleet-featured Multimedia Pro Light will fit right in. The 4-legged aluminum base works very much like a standard light stand except it topped with 2 flexible arms that sprout out of a small power supply (220VAC). Each arm is topped with a tubular frosted housing, each with 150 digital-friendly LEDs with a color balance of 5,600K. The arms have a 270 degree range of adjustment to put the soft light exactly where you want it. The universal center mounting arm protrudes from the same spot as the lights. With a movement range of 360 degrees, it is ideal for instructional, educational, YouTube or any other kind of video. The Multimedia Pro makes back-camera activities like Skyping or Facetime a snap. You can forget about groping for switches too, since the lights have 4 steps dimming that respond to touch. There's even a powered outlet for your digital device. A lightweight carry bag is included.

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Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more.

It's a language lover's delight--a tempting variety of intriguing word puzzles. And almost none has traditional clues, so you won't face those weird words that pop up in everyday crosswords. Go Two by Two to complete mini-grids: all the vowels are already there, but two consonants (repeated as often as necessary) are needed to fill in the blanks. Test your skills on Split Decisions--crosswords where each answer consists of two words that share the letters that belong in the empty squares. The only clues are the letter pairs already printed on the grid. It looks like this: And there are Anagram Loops, Mixagrams, Frazes Its, and other unique inventions. You won't go back to ordinary crosswords again! The author lives in Wantagh, NY. 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

This collection of large-print, easy-to-read wordsearches specifically for discerning puzzle lovers covers a wide range of themes. Perfect for wordsearch beginners and experts alike.The Ingenious Books are created especially for those discerning puzzle lovers who enjoy the challenge of finely crafted wordsearches and other puzzle types. The challenges in this series are created by one of the world's leading puzzle authors, with great experience of producing puzzles that are enjoyably challenging, meaning that the dedicated puzzler will be sure of a satisfying solving experience.

This volume presents jigs, fixtures, and accessories that increase efficiency and make woodshop tasks easier. Covers materials, specialized benches and fixtures, and jigs for routers, tablesaws, and other tools.

For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nineways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our lives today, nine chapters that will leave readers with a new passion for a very old language, nine epic reasons to love Greek.The Ingenious Language is a love song dedicated to the language of history’s greatest poets, philosophers, adventurers, lovers, adulterers, and generals. Greek, as Marcolongo explains in her buoyant and entertaining prose, is unsurpassed in its beauty and expressivity, but it can also offer us new ways of seeing the world and our place in it. She takes readers on an astonishing journey, at the end of which, while it may still be Greek to you, you’ll have nine reasons to be glad it is.No batteries or prior knowledge of Greek required!

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering.  Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.

In Carlos Rojas’s imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel’s Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theater in this private hell, viewing scenes from his own life performed over and over and over. Unexpectedly, two doppelgängers appear, one a middle-aged Lorca, the other an irascible octogenarian self, and the poet faces a nightmarish confusion of alternative identities and destinies.Carlos Rojas uses a fantastic premise—García Lorca in hell—to reexamine the poet’s life and speculate on alternatives to his tragic end. Rojas creates with a surrealist’s eye and a moral philosopher’s mind. He conjures a profoundly original world, and in so doing earns a place among such international peers as Gabriel García Márquez, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee, and José Saramago.

The quest to engineer a radically new kind of car.When the X Prize Foundation announced that it would give $10 million to anyone who could build a safe, mass-producible car that could travel one hundred miles on the energy equivalent of a gallon of gas, the challenge attracted more than one hundred teams from all over the world—including dozens of amateurs. Many designed their cars entirely from scratch, rejecting decades of thinking about what a car should look like.Jason Fagone follows four of those teams from the build stage to the final race and beyond. The result is a gripping story of crazy collaboration, absurd risks, and poignant losses. In an old pole barn in central Illinois, childhood sweethearts hack together an electric-powered dreamboat, using scavenged parts, forging their own steel and burning through their life savings. In Virginia, an impassioned entrepreneur and his hand-picked squad of speed build a car so light that you can push it across the floor with your thumb. In West Philly, a group of disaffected high school students come into their own as they create a hybrid car with the engine of a Harley motorcycle. And in Southern California, the early favorite—a start-up backed by millions in venture capital—designs a car that looks like an alien egg.Ingenious is a joyride. Fagone takes us into the garages and the minds of the inventors, capturing the fractious yet beautiful process of engineering a bespoke machine.

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Excerpt from The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La ManchaHe received an ordinary school education, and at the age of twenty-one we find him in the employ of a dignitary of the church. He was on the road to cer tain advancement and prosperity, but to a person of his active mind the employment was prosaic and dull, and within two years he had resigned and enlisted as a common soldier.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. The descriptions and illustrations are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more.

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Each of the four volumes of Ingenious Mechanisms is an independent treatise on the subject of mechanisms. The books are similar in size and general character, but the contents are different. The mechanisms described are grouped into chapters according to general types. Together with the complete index, this arrangement by function makes it easy to find the class of movement desired, and enables you to compare mechanisms which are similar in purpose but different in design. The descriptions and illustratios are confined to the important and fundamental elements, so that time is not wasted reading a lot of useless or irrelevant detail. Readers are told plainly and briefly what each mechanism consists of, how it operates, and the features which make it of special interest. The particular mechanisms have been selected because they have stood the test of actual practice. Among the mechanisms described and illustrated by working diagrams are: cam applications and special cam designs; intermittent motions from gears and cams; interlocking devices; valve diagrams; reversing mechanisms of special design; tripping or stop mechanisms; drives of crank type for reciprocating driven members; feeding mechanisms and auxiliary devices; feeding and ejecting mechanisms; and many, many more.

Examines inventions and discoveries made by women, beginning with the first patent application made in 1637 and ending with the outbreak of war in 1914.

A funny, revealing look at inventions that never caught on with the public introduces the electric comb, automatic shaving cream filler, and a cuff holder for card sharks intent on hiding an ace up their sleaves, as well as other ill-fated ideas.