B. Park

Roman Signer. Skizzen und Modelle: Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Graphischen Sammlung der ETH Z?rich, 20. Mai bis 9. Juli 2010

It's a brand new school year and Junie B. enters the first grade--meaning shehas to get used to a whole new classroom, a new teacher, and a whole bunch ofstrange children. But the worst thing is when Junie B. tries to read words onthe chalkboard, she can't seem to see what everyone else does. Does this meanshe'll have to wear glasses? Illustrati...

Tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. This book is about the 'grand contraption' we've constructed through the ages in an effort to understand and identify with the universe.