Isbn: 9780954949709 - little earth (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Limited edition of 500 copies. Square format. Softcover with slightly worn spine ends and leading corners. One crease, small scrape and superficial scores on covers. Foot of page block is slightly grubby. Leading corner of title page is lightly creased. Very slight signs of wear to upper leading corners of final pages. Pages are clean and tight throughout. Erratum slip inside book. T. Used.…

Illustrated Card Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This publication documents the formal twinning of the two mountain top observatories in Scotland and the Norwegian arctic in a special ceremony at the West Highland Museum in October 2004 and charts the development of the four-channel film work and sculptural installation. The observatories were on Ben Nevis and on Haldde and Talvik in Arctic Norway. There are chapters on Kristian Birkeland and C.T.Wilson (of the Wilson Cloud Chamber) who was intrigued and inspired on Ben Nevis in 1894 when briefly working at the observatory there. His ideas culminated in his invention of the "Wilson Cloud Chamber" which first demonstrated the tracks of elementary particles. "From Ben Nevis to Higgs Boson"! Little Earth is the second book by artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson. It was published in 2005 to accompany the Little Earth exhibition. Little Earth is a collection of writings and documentation charting the development of the Little Earth project. It contains much of the project research and process with contributions by collaborators from the fields of the visual arts and physical sciences. Book near fine with slight edge wear only. No marks or signatures.…