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جولة في عالم الهندسة
لم يقصد بهذا الكتاب أن يكون مرجعا في علم الهندسة، بل هو جولة مصورة - أو إن شئت فقل - رحلة في عالم الطبيعة تستهدف تسجيل مظاهر علم الهندسة بما تنطوي عليه من إبداع وجمال، أملا في أن تؤدي إلى تشويق القارئ لمتابعة دراسة هذا العلم.
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110 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1957
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March 16, 2022
This book was an excellent living book with illustrations on how Geometry exists and is used in the world by nature and humans. We loved it.
October 7, 2022
Beautiful illustrations and a great introduction to geometry. I think 4th or 5th grade would probably be the perfect audience for this.
November 12, 2018
Absolutely brilliant. There is so much in this book.
Not only does it introduces point, line, angle, surface then polygons and circles, then the elements of solid geometry (including conic sections), constantly pointing out the connections to nature (and industry), but it goes beyond into more advanced curves like cycloids and involutes and spirals.
In less than 120 pages, we get a better, broader, and more insightful overview of geometry than students receive in a year-long high school course. Now, to be sure, there is no calculating, no theorems, no proofs, no formulas. But those can be had readily in nearly any textbook. This instead gives the big picture, tying it all together with the rest of the world - biology, physics, chemistry, acoustics, astronomy, geography, history, psychology, and religion. As an illustrator, Ravielli does not miss the opportunity to include art as well. We even get a bit of poetry, with a well-considered epigram by Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."
The two-color printing (brown and black on white) is used well, allowing Ravielli to show clearly the hidden (or not-so-hidden) geometric shapes found in all kinds of situations. He also creates artistic images that incorporate several ideas in order to make plain the geometric connections among them. Had he access to more color, I don't doubt he could have made good use of the variety. I could wish for larger typeface on some of the illustrated pages, particularly when text and graphics overlap.
Ravielli is the ideal author/illustrator for this work and I'm eager to read his later somewhat-related collaborations with Keith Gordon Irwin, Isaac Asimov, and Martin Gardner.
Not only does it introduces point, line, angle, surface then polygons and circles, then the elements of solid geometry (including conic sections), constantly pointing out the connections to nature (and industry), but it goes beyond into more advanced curves like cycloids and involutes and spirals.
In less than 120 pages, we get a better, broader, and more insightful overview of geometry than students receive in a year-long high school course. Now, to be sure, there is no calculating, no theorems, no proofs, no formulas. But those can be had readily in nearly any textbook. This instead gives the big picture, tying it all together with the rest of the world - biology, physics, chemistry, acoustics, astronomy, geography, history, psychology, and religion. As an illustrator, Ravielli does not miss the opportunity to include art as well. We even get a bit of poetry, with a well-considered epigram by Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare."
The two-color printing (brown and black on white) is used well, allowing Ravielli to show clearly the hidden (or not-so-hidden) geometric shapes found in all kinds of situations. He also creates artistic images that incorporate several ideas in order to make plain the geometric connections among them. Had he access to more color, I don't doubt he could have made good use of the variety. I could wish for larger typeface on some of the illustrated pages, particularly when text and graphics overlap.
Ravielli is the ideal author/illustrator for this work and I'm eager to read his later somewhat-related collaborations with Keith Gordon Irwin, Isaac Asimov, and Martin Gardner.
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September 5, 2018open library - for the art
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