The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Science, Engineering and Technology - Hardcover

Higgins, Michael Denis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0197648142 ISBN 13: 9780197648148

Verlag: OUP USA, 2023

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Michael Higgins broadens our understanding of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by bringing science, engineering, and technology together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings.

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (Pyramids of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria) have been a source of fascination for more than two thousand years. Even though six of the Wonders are now gone, historians and archaeologists have attempted to explain how and why these ancient monuments were created. However, never before have these attempts been synthesized with the contributions of science, engineering, and technology.

In The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Michael Higgins combines scientific research together with ancient documentation and archaeological findings to present a rich, multi-layered portrait of each monument. To build a Wonder took advanced social organization and wealth generated by agriculture and trade, both of which depended on regional geography and climate. It also took natural resources, as well as an understanding of the environment where the Wonder would stand. Even the natural processes often responsible for a Wonder's destruction sometimes contributed to the preservation of its ruins. These and other topics are accessibly explored in this book. After using science, engineering, and technology to answer key questions about the Wonders, Higgins speculates on how we could recreate these ancient monuments and make new wonders that could withstand environmental changes and natural disasters for the next two thousand years.

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Michael Denis Higgins is Professor Emeritus of Earth Science at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and the author of Quantitative Textural Measurements in Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, and, with his father Reynold Higgins, A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean.

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• Verlag: OUP USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0197648142
• ISBN 13: 9780197648148
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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