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Tilt : a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa / Nicholas Shrady.
- Title
- Tilt : a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa / Nicholas Shrady.
- Author
- Shrady, Nicholas.
- Publication
- New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.
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Text | Request in advance | NA5621.P716 S55 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 161 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A chronicle of the famous structure notes its long construction postponement after the erection of the first four stories in 1173; its survival of earthquakes, war, and tourism; and the contributions of Galileo and other figures.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Book bound to stand at a slant.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction -- A Pisan Time Line -- Commissione #17 -- Afloat on a Blood-Red Sea -- Booty Transformed -- Terreni Limosi -- Unfinished Business -- The Stuff of Myth -- Of Poets and Men of Progress -- The Tiltin' Hilton -- Step This Way, Signore e Signori.
- ISBN
- 0743229266
- LCCN
- ^^2003050460
- OCLC
- 52086370
- SCSB-12909685
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library