Very Heath Robinson Stories of His Absurdly Ingenious World

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781873329481
  • 01 april 2017
  • 240 pagina's
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Adam Hart-Davis

Adam Hart-Davis is a writer, broadcaster, and photographer, and one of the world’s most popular and respected “explainers” of science. His TV work includes What the Tudors and Stuarts Did for Us, Tomorrow’s World, and Science Shack, and he is the author of more than 25 books on science, invention, and history. He is an honorary fellow of the Newcomen Society for the History of Engineering and Technology. Hart-Davis has also received medals from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation, and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers.

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Adam Hart-Davis explores the delightful work of William Heath Robinson, the prolific artist and humorist.



‘I have been ill and frightfully bored and the one thing I have wanted is a big album of your absurd beautiful drawings to turn over. You give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world.’ – H. G. Wells to W. Heath Robinson (1914) This book takes a nostalgic look back to the imaginative and often frivolous world of William Heath Robinson, one of the few artists to have given his name to the English language. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the expression Heath Robinson is used to describe ‘any absurdly ingenious and impracticable device of the kind illustrated by this artist’. Yet his elaborate drawings of contraptions are not the only thing to make this book very Heath Robinson. Full of quirky images from Romans wearing polka dots to balding men seducing mermaids, Very Heath Robinson presents an unconventional history of the world in which technology and its social setting get equal billing.

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Hardcover
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01 april 2017
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240
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Adam Hart-Davis
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Geoffrey Beare
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Adam Hart-Davis
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Sheldrake Press

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270 mm
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25 mm
Product lengte
284 mm
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284 mm
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270 mm
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270 mm
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1815 g

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