Archaelogical wood properties, chemistry, and preservation: developed from a symposium sponsored by the cellu…
by American Chemical Society., Los Angeles, Calif.), American Chemical Society., Cellulose, Paper, and Textile Division, Rowell, Roger M., Barbour, James R.
fromAdvances in chemistry series
This study investigates the ways in which mankind, from antiquity to the 19th century, became conscious of the past. From Nabonidus, King of Babylon, to Jefferson, via St Augustine, Petrarch and Newton, the book looks at the various ways in which the past has been used as a mean…
This study investigates the ways in which mankind, from antiquity to the 19th century, became conscious of the past. From Nabonidus, King of Babylon, to Jefferson, via St Augustine, Petrarch and Newton, the book looks at the various ways in which the past has been used as a mean…
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan in New York -- to name but a few -- can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity thro…