First, I started with the word “Architecture” in the body and wanted to find discussions on “civil architecture”. It was interesting, as Alice guided me to Comedies and Plays and books on Ethics. I think it had to do with the word “civil”. I then had to figure out what civil architecture means in the…
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I started my research for “La Science des Ingenieurs dans la Conduite des Travaux de Fortification et d’Architecture Civil” by Bernard Forest de Belidor in the brain Xenotheka. Interested in the results, I initially inserted the title into the explore/find field, selecting architecture as the topic of conversation. This led to an array of books,…
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The treatise of Camillo Agrippa is a piece of work imagining the transfer of an antique Obelisk to the Piazza San Pietro. The book is all about the possible techniques on how to move the Obelisk and not about the context. Agrippa doesn’t explain anything about the Obelisk and it’s history, neither does he mention…
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I started my search on Alice using architecture as the topic of conversation and exploring the results generated when searching for words like “siege” “fortresses”, hoping to find a book related to architecture used in fortification. I chose these topics because my book “La militare architettura” discusses Pietro Ruggiero’s experience in wars and in the…
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As a first step I watched one of the tutorials because I was kind off confused with all the options I had to feed Alice to get the right result. After that I clicked through the different libraries and looked at the word clouds to find a matching one. My book focused a lot on…
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Das Buch «anderer Versuch seiner architect» von Johann Rudolf Fäsches beinhaltet alte, architektonische Radierungen und Zeichnungen verschiedener antiker Gebäude. Jedes dieser Gebäude wird im Schnitt und im Grundriss dargestellt. In seinen Texten richtet er sich an lehrende Ingenieure und ArchitektInnen. Um ähnliche Bücher in der Alice Suchmaschine zu finden, gab ich Begriffe wie «section», «drawing»,…
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As a first step, I looked again at my images that I selected from the first task. After that i sarted to type in some words into Alice and looked for a fitting quote. The first word i typed in was “drawing” because in our book there were a lot of them. The first quote…
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To do my research for the Friends with an Old Book assignment, I used the AskAlice search engine. I used keywords that I got to know because of the last assignment.First of all, I decided to use the words “illustrations villa” for my search. By chance I came across the book “The Art and Architecture…
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As I started my research on Alice to find related books for my book, “perspectiva pictorum et architectorum” by Andrea Pozzo, I first focused on the most obvious term perspective. Also as the brain I used the Xenotheka Library to keep the search as wide as possible. As the topic of conversation, I used architecture….
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For my first search on Alice I chose “Xenotheka” as brain and as topic of conversation I choose of course “architecture“. For my first search I have chosen the words “Les Plans Et Les Descriptions de Deux Des Plus Belles Maisons” as they are the title and the main topic of my book, so I…