#david macauley

[baby-advice]

The two encyclopedias for memories

I recently came into possession of two excellent books that are at least a little to meet the children's curiosity. After all, they are so interesting to see how arranged everything. And it is very important time to offer little explorer necessary books. Perfectly suited illustrated encyclopedia David McAuley "how things work" and "as built".

As a recognized popularizer of science, McAuley can tell in simple words, even the most difficult material.

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"How things work" was created for readers of any age that are usually books on physics seem complicated. But the most interesting and useful it will be for children 10-12 years.

Explaining another law of physics, the author talks about the different devices in which it is applied. The main thing - to realize that they are all working on the same principle. For example, in the chapter on the frictional force you read about the clutch, parachute, car tires, rig, and even a perpetual motion machine.

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Charming mammoth, found in almost every chapter, falls into a variety of situations: sinks the raft, trying to control the aircraft, takes off the hologram, play a musical instrument. This helps children to better learn the material. No wonder this encyclopedia became a bestseller worldwide.

"As it is built" - is another interesting book by David Macauley, which makes it possible to take a fresh look at familiar buildings - bridges, tunnels, churches, dams, skyscrapers. McAuley describes all the way to the creation of outstanding works of engineering and architectural thought, revealing to us the door to the interesting world, familiar only to a narrow circle of professionals.

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The author introduces the history of the creation of unique buildings. A special attention to the technical side of the issue - how people take engineering decisions and how to cope with the challenges in the construction. The construction of each facility, whether Eurotunnel under the English Channel, the dome of St. Sophia and St. Peter's Skyscrapers Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, he regarded as a chain of successive decisions of engineers, designers, architects and builders.

Each story is accompanied by detailed illustrations by David Macauley, who in his famous style, with detailed precision, draws buildings scheme.

Encyclopedia like kids of any age, but not quite small.

[scowlofminerva-blog]

…it is an apparent, if at times unfortunate, truth of the human condition that we often only become aware of circumstances, conditions, and objects when they change suddenly, when they fail to function in predictable manners, or when they disappear inexplicably from our circadian rhythms. This is especially the case with things elemental.

David Macauley, ‘Elemental Philosophy - Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas’

[scowlofminerva-blog]

“One could plausibly object that fire, earth, water, and air are no longer considered “elements” but rather chemical compounds (in the case of air or water) or admixtures (with forms of earth) or rapid oxidation processes (in the instance of fire) and that one is in danger of courting anachronisms by resuscitating them. As Hegel puts it in The Philosophy of Nature, “The concept of the four elements, which has been commonplace since the time of Empedocles, has been rejected as puerile phantasy.” “No educated person,” he adds, “is now permitted, under any circumstances, to mention [it].” Why then, we might ask, after acknowledging the intellectual stigma attached to interest in the elements—Hegel’s worlds nearly suggests a taboo—would one proceed to consider their meaning, to take seriously and even to take up this ancient idea? Furthermore, why would Hegel deign to undertake such an inquiry himself in the same work and write in his Lectures on the History of Philosophy: “In the idea of the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought”?”

-David Macauley, ‘Elemental Philosophy - Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas’

[scowlofminerva-blog]

“Although physically near, they [the elements] nevertheless remain existentially remote, covered over, or concealed. One task, then, of ecological philosophy is to encourage a renewed understanding of and critical encounter with air, fire, earth, and water and to make us aware of the complex—and sometimes very necessary—mediations that exist between us and the environment, between humans and the more capacious world. It implies the need for elemental anamnesis—recollection or, literally, “loss of forgetfulness.” Put differently, addressing environmental problems necessitates finding our own element and place within an encompassing and abiding manifold.”

-David Macauley, ‘Elemental Philosophy - Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas’

[scowlofminerva-blog]

As with our passing awareness of the surrounding atmosphere, we rarely pause to consider the involuntary but essential activity sustaining our world and accompanying us like a trusty metronome, except perhaps when we are gasping for elusive oxygen.

David Macauley, Elemental Philosophy - Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Environmental Ideas