| Title | : | The Temple (Art and Imagination) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0500810508 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2012-11-19 |
| Genre | : |
With more than two million copies sold in more than a dozen languages, the Art & Imagination series provides illustrated introductions by distinguished writers and scholars to the worlds of mythology, symbols, and sacred traditions. This classic series has now been redesigned and reformatted for a new generation of readers, and it launches with the following four titles. This cross-cultural compendium shows how the holy meeting place is common to faiths and sites from Greece to Mexico, from Jerusalem to Cambodia and beyond. 137 illustrations, 42 in color
Editorial : About the Author John Lundquist is former Curator of Asian and Middle Eastern Collections at the New York Public Library.
I find that this book is not written that way. I think there'll be more as this evolves but this book was an updated preview for me, and gave me the necessary details to start collecting. Why is it relevant to the ‘no lone inventor’ thesis to mention that: (1) Tesla was a pool shark (and that he pretended not to know how to play pool so he could sucker people into playing him for money, so common in pool hustling that it doesn’t even raise eyebrows, but the author thought so), (2) Tesla goofed off in college and missed classes, (3) Tesla was probably gay, (4) Tesla was apparently a vegetarian, shunned contact with people, and was tall and underweight (reading this, and looking at the unflattering photos of a gaunt Tesla, you’d think he died young, but in fact –and back in the days when people died young-- Tesla lived to 87!), (5) Tesla had no kids (and is mocked by the author for being born under the zodiac sign of somebody who has lots of children), (6) T
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