A Little History of Astro-Archaeology

By Keith Albarn and John Michell

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050027097X
• ISBN13: 9780500270974
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Thames and Hudson
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Heady Elixir, to be sipped a little at a time.

This is a non-scientific, highly mathematical book. Non-scientific in that it is hypothetical and even intuitive in places. Mathematical in that it is constantly exploring geometry and symmetry, arrangements etc. There are a few equations but nothing taking up the space of a whole paragraph. This book is almost delibrately written to not be understood. But it is not non-sense. It is just not designed to be swallowed whole. Rather, it is to be be gleaned from only a little at a time (I mean a page or maybe just a paragraph) and then closed again for a while. Only design or commercial artists or other mathematical geometry academics will be able to digest the second ½ of this book completely. Imagine after an evening of experimental substances and sleep deprivation you rifle through your scribbled ramblings. But instead of finding embarrassing fractured and ill-concieved concepts, you realize there is really something coherent and worth sharing there. That's how these authors wrote and that's how this book reads. If you are fascinated by diagrams, where the map really ends (does it really?) and the territory begins and all the other ramifications that come from trying to understand and represent the world around you (in a mathematial and topographical way), then this is a book for you.