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Полный вариант заголовка: «Hauptzuge aus dem Leben unsers unvergesslichen Vaters des weyland Russisch-Kaiserlichen wirklichen Staatsraths, Residenten und Wolodimirs-Ordens Ritters Herrn Anton Sebastian von Struve».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Allgemeines musikalisches Lexikon : in welchem alle in jede Art von Musik und die damit verwandten Wissenschaften einschlagende Kunstworter nach alphabetische Ordnung deutlich erklart werden (mit den dazu gehorigen Noten-Beyspielen) : ein unentbeyrliches Handbuch fur Anfanger und Geubtere so wohl in der Instrumental als Vokal-Musik / von Georg Friedrich Wolf».

Vor Ihnen 2 humoristischer Erzahlungen uber das Leben der Fu?ballspieler und eine Erzahlung, die vom kleinen lebenswichtigen Abschnitt der 18-jahrigen Heldin – die Tochter des Fu?balltrainers erzahlt. Sie die beginnende Sangerin, aber die standigen Streite mit dem geliebten Menschen, storen die Hindernisse des Schicksals sie, die Traume in die Realitat zu verwirklichen. Die Erzahlung ist in Form vom Tagebuch mit der Erzahlung von der ersten Person geschrieben.

In the tradition of Dava Sobel's ‘Longitude’ comes sailing expert David Barrie's compelling and dramatic tale of invention and discovery – an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.This book is an eloquent elegy to the sextant – the odd-looking instrument that changed the world. It tells the story of how and why the sextant was invented; how it saved the lives of many navigators in wild and dangerous seas—as well as its vital role in man’s attempts to map the world. Among the protagonists in this story are Captain James Cook, Matthew Flinders – the first man to circumnavigate Australia, the great French navigator, Laperouse, who built on Cook's work in the exploring the Pacific during the 1780s, but never made it home, Robert Fitz-Roy of the Beagle, George Vancouver, Frank Worsley of the Endurance, and Joshua Slocum, the redoubtable old ‘lunarian’ and first single-handed round-the-world yachtsman. Much of the book is set amidst the waves of the Pacific ocean as explorers searched for the great southern ocean, charted the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, California, Canada, Alaska as well as the Pacific islands. Their stories are interwoven with the author’s account of his own maiden voyage on Saecwen in 1973, and they are infused with his sense of wonder and dramatic discovery.A heady mix of adventure, science, mathematics and derring-do, Sextant is a timeless tale of sea-faring and exploration, a love letter to the sea which will appeal to the many thousands of readers who loved Dava Sobel’s Longitude as well as the work of Simon Winchester, Patrick O’Brian and Richard Holmes. This is narrative history and storytelling at its best.

A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.The graphic story of the measurement of a meridian, or longitudinal, arc extending from the tip of the Indian subcontinent to the mountains of the Himalayas.Much the longest such measurement hitherto made, it posed horrendous technical difficulties, made impossible physical demands on the survey parties (jungle, tigers, mountains etc.), and took over 50 years. But the scientific results were commensurate, including the discovery of the world’s highest peaks and a new calculation of the curvature of the earth’s surface.The Indian Mutiny of 1857 triggered a massive construction of roads, railways, telegraph lines and canals throughout India: all depended heavily on the accuracy of the maps which the Great Arc had made possible.