Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings.

Foreword by Kent R.Weeks. Vercelli, White Star 2002, cm.26x35, pp.96, num.figg.a col.nt. hardcover, dustjacket. The west bank of the Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor, often referred to as western Thebes, is probably the richest archaeological site in the world. This area has attracted travelers since ancient times, and many have left their impressions of the monuments in the form of graffiti, historical texts, scholarly books, and travel guides. Beginning even before Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798, which included a large group of scholars, architects, artists, and scientists, Europeans flocked to visit and record the ruins of ancient Thebes. Independent scholars such as John Gardiner Wilkinson lived at Thebes for extended periods; professional Egyptologists such as Jean-Francois Champollion, Ippolito Rosellini, and Karl Richard Lepsius organized scholarly expeditions to the site. The beauty of the landscape and monuments such as the Colossi of Memnon, the Ramesseum, and the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings also inspired poets, writers, and artists such as the romantic painter David Roberts, who published more than 100 works, many based on sketches done at Thebes. Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings presents some of the wealth of etchings, sketches, and watercolors that were produced by European travelers to western Thebes between about 1740 and 1860 and tells the story of Europe's rediscovery of the ancient civilization of Egypt.

Introduced by H.E. Suzanne Mubarak. Photographs by Araldo De Luca. Torino, De Agostini per Eni 2001, 2 volumi. cm.26x36, pp.434, 96, alcune centinaia di figg.a col.nt. legature editoriali in tutta tela, titoli in oro al dorso e al piatto superiori, sopracoperte figurate a col. in cofanetto. testo in inglese.

Prefazione di Kent R. Weeks. Vercelli, White Star 2002, cm.25x36, pp. 96, 96 ill. col. legatura editoriali, sopraccoperta figurata a colori. Coll.Artisti nella Storia.

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New Haven and London, Yale Universitiy Press 1987, cm.24,5x27,5, pp.36,(96), 48 tavv.a col..con schede raffrontate, brossura, cop.fig.a col. Eccellente esempl.

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2023, cm.15x21,5, pp.68, illustrazioni. brossura copertina figurata a colori. George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher, an anglican bishop and one of the three great British empiricists along with John Locke and David Hume. Ignored and derided in life, he is now widely re-evaluated and considered as a sort of indirect precursor of Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr for his thesis on the non-existence of matter and the impossibility of an objectively absolute time and space. His critiques of mathematics and science are among the most controversial, brilliant and revolutionary in the history of philosophy. The Berkley's essay A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics was written and published in 1735 in response to criticisms ofThe Analyst in Geometry no Friend to Infidelity; or a Defence of Sir Isaac Newton and the British Mathematicians, by "Philalethes Cantabrigiensis" (Dr. James Jurin, a noted Cambridge scientist and physician), andVindication of Sir Isaac Newton's Principles of Fluxions, by Jacob Walton. Berkeley responded to a subsequent pamphlet of Walton withReasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's Full Answer.