Hardcover
2014 · München
by Weidner, Thomas
München: Hirmer, 2014. Hardcover. VG (One top corner bumped, otherwise quite nice and clean.). Siena & color illus. boards, 372 pp., color, duotone, and BW illus. Text is in German. Issued in conjunction with a 2014-2015 exhibition focusing on the colorful life and work of American-born British physicist and inventor Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814), known as Count Rumford after he moved to Bavaria and took on city planning in 1785. Presents reproductions of some of his own work, as well as that of other scientists and artists at the time.
(Inventory #: 154854)