Because of the simple fact that my book consists almost only out of drawings, my search on Alice was quite hard. Instead of searching for another book, which also is a collection of architectural drawings, I needed to search for books which discuss the topic of ancient architectural depictions. This way I was still able…
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Girl Handled Be aware on 1st Date
When you go with your first date, you don’t know what to expect. It could possibly always be difficult to measure whether proceeding get along. You have no idea who have your date will most likely be, and you can’t genuinely tell in the event that they’re going to be thinking about you. On a…
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Before I opened the Ask Alice search engine, I had an image of a factual neutral website in front of me. When I opened Ask Alice, something completely different came out than I expected. The website is much more colorful and playful than I expected. The first thing I had to do was to find…
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My old friend, de gli obelischi di Roma by Michele Mercati is an in depth treatment of the Egyptian Obelisks in Rome. So to begin with I set the topic of conversation to obelisk and started the conversation with Alice by also typing obelisk. Up came some reasonably interesting results which made me aware of…
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Using Alice was a new experience for me. I easily understood how to search for a word and how to apply a different ‘brain’. What I did not immediately understand was the usage of Alice’s topic. After I got familiar with how Alice works, I started my research using the topic ‘architecture’ and the brain…
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The book under analysis is a work by Johann Rudolph Feasch, Des Jacobi Barozzi von Vignola Grund Regel. As is clear from the title, it deals with mathematical, structural and perspective rules of architecture. Initially, I started with a search for the title of the book and the author for this new task. It seemed…
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My book: A book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments, James Gibbs First, I tried to look for something general like “ornament” to be sure, that I will find a book. The problem was that the first option was a book about modern architecture which does not contain any ornaments. So I looked…
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The book „Opera di Francesco Borromino“ written by Sebastiano Giannini is full of illustrations and no text. In order to find suiting books with the help of Alice I kept her brain with Xenotheka Library and as a topic of conversation i used architecture. Because Sebastiano Gianninis book has almost no writing, i really had…