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The search on Alice turned out to be more difficult than I first thought. It took me a while to search efficiently for a book that had similarities in subject matter to the book Synopsis architecturae civilis eclecticae by Johann Jacob Schübler. I first had to familiarise myself with the various search filters. For example, I did…

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Cours d’architecture is a treatise on architecture by French architect and theorist Jacques-François Blondel. First published in 1771, it was the first architecture textbook published in France, and went through a number of editions and translations over the next several decades. The work was very influential in spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, particularly in…

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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First, I gave architecture as the element for the topic of conversation. As I typed in again architecture, in the Xenotheka library,more than 10’000 results were recommended to my request. I wanted to narrow them down to ‘only’ 1’000 results by adding system to my already searched architecture topic. But it didn’t help at all….

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To explore AskAlice I started simple and searched up the author of my book (Cours d’architecture – Augustin D’Avile). For the topic I have chosen architect and as Alice’s brain I went with Xenotheka Library. However, the results were not really helpful because the only informative thing I found out is that he and his…

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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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Using “Ask Alice” for the first time, I struggled a bit with finding the best way to search for books that connected with “Lucidum prospectivae Speculum” from Paul Heineken. Firstly, I typed in the title of the book with “architecture” as the topic of conversation and the “Xenotheka Library” as Alice’s brain but only got…

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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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Process My book “Paradossi per pratticare la prospettiva senza saperla” has perspective in drawings as its main theme. Thus, I knew that the first word to search for had to be “perspective”. However, I had to quickly realize that this generates far too many results and especially far too many which do not really have…