Looking for Don Quixote
Children’s puzzle of the successful explosion of the first nuclear bomb in China.
China exploded its first atom bomb at 15:00 hour on October 16, 1964.
Source: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto/flickr
Shades of Gray, 1879
This is perhaps one of the most beautiful engravings found in the military textbook by Johann Choura, Lehrbuch der Geometralzeichnens fuer id K.K. Militar-Realschulen, which is a work printed in Vienna in 1879.It is not-so-simple and a lovely work of techArt.
(via Ptak Science Books: Superior Design)
2 days ago on May 16, 2013 at 12:37pm
On the Silver Globe (1988)
“Na srebrnym globie” (original title)
The Color of Pomegranates (1968)
“Sayat Nova” (original title)
In case you ever wonder why I do the things I do.
(via nynewelikes)
2 days ago on May 16, 2013 at 07:08am
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