Bøger af John Michell

The Trivium are the three Liberal Arts pertaining to language: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric, studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of perfecting a speaker and their speech. Also included in this compendium of seven Wooden Books are studies of Euphonics, Poetic Meter and Form, Ethics, and Proverbs.

Explores how ancient people who grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. This title features more than 300 colour illustrations that reveal the secret code within the geometrical figures and shows how they express the spiritual meanings in the key numbers of 1 through 12.

An in-depth look at the role of number as a bridge between Heaven and Earth.

""A Treatise of Artificial Magnets"" is a book written by John Michell and published in 1751. The book provides a comprehensive guide to creating artificial magnets that are superior to natural ones. Michell provides an easy and expeditious method of making these magnets, which can be used for a variety of purposes. The book covers the history of magnetism, the properties of magnets, and the scientific principles behind their creation. The author also includes practical advice on how to use these magnets for navigation, scientific experiments, and other applications. This book is an important historical document in the field of magnetism and is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of science and technology.And Also, A Way Of Improving The Natural Ones, And Of Changing Or Converting Their Poles.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Jinks is the victim of an evil twin, a 'doppelgänger' and is thrust from one hilarious situation to another in a series of unexplainable coincidences or synchronicities. He is sacked, he is attacked and runs from one danger to yet another; Jinks is chased by the mob, chased by his twin's ex-lover, chased by the police and even chased by his neighbor's wife. In the end, Jinks will learn who he really is... or will he?

Le livre ""Traites Sur Les Aimans Artificiels (1752)"" de John Michell est une �����uvre importante dans le domaine de la physique. Il s'agit d'un trait����� sur les aimants artificiels et leur utilisation dans diverses applications, y compris la navigation maritime. L'auteur explore les propri�����t�����s des aimants artificiels et comment ils peuvent ������tre utilis�����s pour produire des champs magn�����tiques. Il examine �����galement les diff�����rentes m�����thodes pour mesurer la force magn�����tique et comment les aimants peuvent ������tre utilis�����s pour cr�����er des machines. Le livre est �����crit en fran�����ais et est consid�����r����� comme une r�����f�����rence importante pour les scientifiques et les ing�����nieurs travaillant dans le domaine de la physique et de la technologie.This Book Is In French.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A detailed account of the Canadian run-up to the Dieppe Raid, the invasion and life in the P.O.W. camp. The daring escape of 52 soldiers under the noses of their German captors with the assistance of the camp kregie band of which my father was part. It details the relocation of prisoners to Castle Brewery to prevent further escapes.Molsdorf was a transfer camp where prisoners were segregated and sent to other camps based on their countries of service, branch of the forces they represented and their rank. Many fliers from the R.A.F. passed through on their way to Stalag Luft III (the site of the historically tragic 'Great Escape'). Many of the tunneling techniques used there, were learned in Molsdorf. It was the escape at Molsdorf that led Hitler to order that escape prisoners be shot as spies. Hence the bitter ending to the British fliers.As the allied troops crept ever closer, it was decreed that the Stalags be emptied and a forced march in and around Germany to stay ahead of Patton's 3rd Army liberators be mounted. In this account, you will find many humorous exploits the soldiers embarked upon during their training as well as the antics the P.O.W's pulled to get under the skin of their German captors. The demoralization of the German guards is evident in Dad's words as desperation mounts and the circle closes. By the end, the kreigies appear to be running the asylum. Intermingled is the sad reality of their plight. It is a must read for buffs of WWII adventures and historians alike!

The Far Grass is less a traditional Cold War spy fiction novel than it is the life story of a British spy during the time of the Cold War, a taut psychological study of personality and motivation told in first person by the book''s central character, Joe Lambert. Lambert is an emotionally isolated man, an antihero unburdened by outrageous talents, on whom deep cynicism is visited. He progresses from his recruitment into Britain''s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in an 1970s accident of UK political history through to his failures as a lover, resultant career zealotry and, after finding love only for it to be wrenched away, later transformation into an obsessed avenger. Along the way, Lambert locks in mortal conflict not only with the KGB but also with his own Service and hostile colleagues within, the CIA and ultimately himself. Stealthily addictive; thoughtful; sometimes sad, sometimes funny, The Far Grass is a former diplomat''s tale of spying intrigue, human imperfection and the cut and thrust of bureaucratic politics. It is a book that offers readers a new slant on the Cold War spy fiction genre through a story that reaches its surprise conclusion in 1990 as the Soviet Union prepares to implode and the end of the Cold War nears.  

A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.

Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Trivium is a compendium of writings on the classical subjects at the heart of a liberal education, bringing the wisdom of the past into the twenty-first century.

Dublin Zoo is a dynamic thriller blurring fact with fiction as it seamlessly weaves its three distinct stories into one, yet also a novel that grounds the reader before beginning to stretch imagination. The book is further notable for its “teaser text” technique, whereby its first and second stories are dotted with the lead character Harold Bradshaw's reflections from its third part, ahead of this third limb taking over and steering the narrative through to its gripping conclusion.Harold’s parents, Albert and Rita Bradshaw, are an Englishman from Newcastle upon Tyne and a Frenchwoman from Marseille. As a World War I soldier, Albert meets and marries Rita while in France. Faced with Rita’s hostile family, her brother Axel especially, Albert, Rita and baby Harold settle in England after the war where Albert embarks on building a business empire. This first part features Harold’s growth into adulthood in Scunthorpe in England’s northeast midlands during the inter-war years. It is a tale dominated by Albert’s rise from rags to riches and back to rags again, and concurrently, Rita’s slide into mental illness. It also introduces the young lawyer who represented Albert when he was court-martialled during the Great War, saving his life, and who later becomes the guiding hand behind the establishment of Albert’s business empire. The segment graphically depicts the global recovery from the First War, the period of prosperity following, and key events preceding the world’s slide into the Great Depression and economic catastrophe.The first stage concludes with the death of Harold’s parents - murder in his mother’s case and his father’s related demise - and Harold taking revenge for their deaths.  With that, the young Harold is forced to flee to London, launching the novel’s second act. Once in the capital, he embarks on a series of action-packed exploits as he seeks to find his place in the world.  Harold’s destiny is shaped by a unique ability to calmly and calculatedly inflict violence and his ever-present worry of being called to account for taking matters into his own hands when avenging the death of his parents.  Shortly after arriving in London, Harold meets Katrina, an older woman with whom he falls in love.  But his affair with Katrina is as brief as it is intense.  It comes to an end in 1937 when British justice miscarries and Harold is convicted of two murders.  In an ironic twist, the judge who hands down his lengthy prison sentence (in the book’s opening scene, in fact) is the same man who, as a young lawyer, years earlier saved Albert’s life in France and later guided the birth of his business empire.  This second story concludes with Harold incarcerated and facing at least eighteen years in prison, while concurrently war clouds build over Europe.The final stanza opens with the onset of World War II.  Harold is released from prison when he is recruited by a secretive British unit ostensibly to undertake a mission in his mother’s birthplace of Marseille, primarily because of his flawless French language skills learnt at her knee as a child in Scunthorpe.  But Harold is in fact an unwitting pawn in a higher stakes game entailing a secret British plan to exploit a traitor within the French Resistance in pursuit of a critical strategic objective.  Thus ensues a gripping story of intrigue, double cross, Harold’s surprise romance with another older woman, and an unshakable male friendship.  Events climax in Marseille in an engrossing, edge of your seat characterization of the book’s Dublin Zoo title.

ANCIENT MYSTERIES / SACRED GEOMETRY "John Michell and Christine Rhone's book combines vision and tradition to produce a comprehensive guide to what they term 'the science of enchanting the landscape, ' as practiced across the ancient world. Their book is indispensable to anyone seeking an understanding of the way in which the threads of astrology, cosmology, number, and music were combined, in many countries and at many different periods, to provide a design for the fabric of society." --Pete Stewart, author of The Spiritual Science of the Stars Throughout the world--in countries as far apart as China, Ireland, Iceland, and Madagascar--there survive records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year. Best known are the twelve tribes of Israel under King Solomon, but there have been many others. Wherever they occur, they are associated with an ideal social order and a golden age of humanity. Exploring examples of these twelve-tribe societies, John Michell and Christine Rhone explain the blueprint for this organizational structure and look at the musical, mythological, and astronomical enchantments that kept these societies in harmony with the cosmos. They also examine the astrological landscapes of classical Greece, the aligned St. Michael sanctuaries of Europe, and the true site and function of the Temple in Jerusalem. They show that the sacred geography of these sites was part of an ancient code of knowledge that produced harmony between nature and humanity and is as relevant to our present and future as it was to our past. JOHN MICHELL, educated at Eton and Cambridge, is the pioneer researcher and specialist in the field of ancient, traditional science. He is the author of more than 25 books that have profoundly influenced modern thinking, including The Dimensions of Paradise, The New View over Atlantis, and Secrets of the Stones. He lives in London. CHRISTINE RHONE is an artist and writer with a special interest in landscape symbolism. The translator of several important works, including Jacques Le Goff's Saint Francis of Assisi, Antoine Faivre's Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition, and Jean Richer's Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, she lives in London.

Do particular sounds have particular magical effects? Discussing this question, this book talks about the deadly daggers of D, the trivialising teasing taunts of T and the nagging nasal negatives associated with N. It is useful for orators, poets and sorcerers, and is humorously illustrated by "Guardian" cartoonist, Merrily Harpur.

Scholars have put forward many theories about who wrote the works of Shakespeare, suggesting it could have been Francis Bacon or the Earl of Oxford. This is an investigation of the claims and counter-claims, laying out the arguments for the various candidates, including Shakespeare himself.