When I used Alice to find books in the Xenotheka library, I first thought of key words to use. As my book is one of the “Säulenbücher” I tried this keyword first. Sadly, this didn’t bear any results. With my next search words, I stuck with the topic of architecture. As the author of my…
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My book is “Insignium Romae templorum”, a book made by “Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi”, I took various steps to narrow down the search for comparable book with the help of Alice. First of I defined the “order” for architecture since my book has it focus on architectural buildings and designs and resumed by just tipped…
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Friends with an old book Lars Niklas Ludes 21-948-492 Since my book is called “Vitruvius Britannicus or the British architect” I decided to search for the term “Vitruvius” in Alice first, the Topic of conversation was set to “long”. Alice used her brain/body and named “Alberti and Vitruvius Library”. I came across several books, including…
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20-944-021 Since my book is about the process of drawing and giving the reader a guideline how to draw different buildings I started with the search of: Architecture Instructions. Vitruv was the first result, so I moved on to the second one to get to read something new. The other result was about the writer…
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Since my assigned book is about plans and descriptions of the most beautiful houses of a specific region the first search I did in Alice’s brains’ was “most beautiful homes” with the topic of conversation in “architecture” The first book that popped up was Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory. A quote came with the find which…