The initiation of the Pyramid.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.15x21,5, pp.58, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

A cura di Nicola Bizzi. Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.14,8x21, pp.56, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese The North American Indian is by nature a symbolist, a mystic, and a philosopher. Like most aboriginal peoples, his soul was en rapport with the cosmic agencies manifesting about him. Not only did his Manidos control creation from their exalted seats above the clouds, but they also descended into the world of men and mingled with their red children. The gray clouds hanging over the horizon were the smoke from the calumets of the Gods, who could build fires of petrified wood and use a comet for a flame. The American Indian peopled the forests, rivers, and sky with myriads of superphysical and invisible beings. There are legends of entire tribes who lived in lake bottoms; of races who were never seen in the daytime but who, coming forth from their hidden caves, roamed the earth at night and waylaid unwary travelers; also of Bat Indians, with human bodies and wings, who lived in gloomy forests and inaccessible cliffs and who slept hanging head downward from outcroppings of rock. The red man's philosophy of elemental creatures is apparently the outcome of his intimate contact with Nature, whose inexplicable wonders become the generating cause of such metaphysical speculations.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2022, cm.15x21, pp.64, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori.

Roma, Ecole Française de Rome 1991, cm.17x24, pp.216, 39 ill.bn.,10 ill.e tavv.a col.in 10 tavv. brossura cop.fig.a col. Coll.Images à l'Appui,5.

Milano, Fratelli Treves Editori 1919, 1913, cm.14x20, pp.117,(3), brossura, cop.ornata. timbro di appartenenza al frontespizio,

Milano, CDE su licenza Rizzoli Ed. 2002, cm.17,5x24,5, pp.622, centinaia di figg.bn.nt. legatura ed. sopraccop.fig.a col.

Cambridge University Press 1992, cm.18,5x26, pp.XII,304, ill. legatura editoriale cartonata, sopracoperta figurata a colori. The Great Copernicus Chase is an anthology of 36 incidents drawn from the history of astronomy. The chapters range from Stonehenge and ancient Egypt, to the Great Comet of 1965, and to Albert Einstein. In this series of articles, arranged roughly chronologically, Professor Gingerich covers all the important periods and developments in astronomy. The book is generously illustrated throughout, and opportunity has been taken to add illustrations to articles that originally had none. The curious reader will learn of the origin of the zodiac, Islamic astronomy, fake astrolabes, the foundation of modern astronomy in the USA, and the discovery of the spiral arms of our Galaxy. Although Professor Gingerich prepared this material primarily for readers interested in the historical background to astronomy, there are many original research discoveries and insights. This is popularization and intellectual history combined. The Copernicus Chase refers to Owen Gingerich's attempt to make a census of all extant copies of De Revolutionibus. Some of the many adventures that have befallen him in this quest feature in the book. The majority of the chapters originally appeared in Sky and Telescope, the monthly astronomy magazine published by Sky Publishing Corporation of Cambridge, Massachusetts.