Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science

Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science

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Author/Contributor(s): Poteat, Joshua
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Date: 11/01/2009
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
In this book-length series, poems with titles such as "Illustrating the theory of interference" and "Illustrating the construction of railroads" are paired with nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics. Yet the poems relate to the images in an oblique rather than a direct way.