Things: A Volume of Objects Devised by Man's Genius which are the Measure of His CivilizationGeoffrey Grigson, Charles Harvard Gibbs-Smith Hawthorn Books, 1957 - 466 Seiten |
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... animals are portrayed , and the careful workmanship of the artists is in direct contrast with disfiguring shafts scratched across many of the paintings , as though to ' kill ' the animals by sympathetic magic ( by the same principle ...
... animals are portrayed , and the careful workmanship of the artists is in direct contrast with disfiguring shafts scratched across many of the paintings , as though to ' kill ' the animals by sympathetic magic ( by the same principle ...
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... animal outlines ; or painted with animals , or both engraved and painted . Pecked engravings were made in Sweden and elsewhere in the North on rocks smoothed and polished by the Ice Age glaciers . These belong to a later period . A ...
... animal outlines ; or painted with animals , or both engraved and painted . Pecked engravings were made in Sweden and elsewhere in the North on rocks smoothed and polished by the Ice Age glaciers . These belong to a later period . A ...
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... animals ; these showed that the pro- duction of animal heat is a vital process , ' that power which preserves and regulates the internal machine ' . Hunter used thermometers of a simple type , but only in observations on the animals ...
... animals ; these showed that the pro- duction of animal heat is a vital process , ' that power which preserves and regulates the internal machine ' . Hunter used thermometers of a simple type , but only in observations on the animals ...
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GROTTO at Painshill Park Surrey SirènChina | 186 |
Kircher Ars magna lucis | 294 |
Mavungu Pitt Rivers Museum | 399 |
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