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In earlier times when English spelling was less standardized, "spinet" was sometimes spelled "spinnet" or "spinnit". "Spinet" is standard today. Spinet derives from the Italian spinetta , which in 17th-century Italian was a word used generally for all quilled instruments, especially what in Elizabethan / Jacobean English were called virginals .
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The Dutch organist and harpsichordist Class Douwes (circa 1650 – circa 1725) mentions instruments from nominal 6 feet (1.8 m) down to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet (0.76 m). [11] The pitch differences between the models offered by the Ruckers workshops were by no means arbitrary, but corresponded to the musical intervals of a tone, a fourth , a fifth , an ...
A number of pattern books have been very influential in spreading architectural styles. An early author of pattern books was American architect Minard Lafever. In 1829 he published The Young Builders' General Instructor, followed by Modern Builders' Guide in 1833, The Beauties of Modern Architecture in 1835 and The Architectural Instructor in
Peter Eisenman was born to Jewish parents on August 11, 1932, in Newark, New Jersey. [2] [3] As a child, he attended Columbia High School located in Maplewood, New Jersey.He transferred into the architecture school as an undergraduate at Cornell University and gave up his position on the swimming team in order to commit full-time to his studies.
The spinnerets of an Australian garden orb weaver spider. Black spinneret of Phidippus adumbratus visible below red abdomen. A spinneret is a silk-spinning organ of a spider or the larva of an insect.
Princeton Architectural Press (now PA Press) is a division of Chronicle Books. [2]Founded by Kevin Lippert [3] in 1981 in Princeton, NJ, PA Press has been a leading publisher of books on architecture, design, and visual culture for over forty years, making its reputation by identifying new trends and publishing first books on emerging talents, as well as definitive works on established names ...
The Vales are construction toy collectors, and advocates of instruction-free play for teaching concepts of structure, a foundation of architecture. [9] Their 2013 book, Architecture on the Carpet: The Curious Tale of Construction Toys, examines the thesis that the toys teach children architectural concepts that can later influence an adult ...