The Sense of Beauty

The Sense of BeautyIt is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty. This unabridged reproduction of the

Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere

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Any magician or card conjurer who aspires to the utmost proficiency in card manipulation will want to have this indispensable reference in his or her library

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It was written at the end of a significant era in anthropological fieldwork

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Although no book can substitute for actual scientific work

" "Sleeping Beauty