Tag: Heritage
Alan Turing’s school report reveals little of his genius
Items from codebreaker’s life and death go on display at Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In 1929, a teenager’s end-of-term report noted that his English reading was weak, his French prose was very weak, his essays grandiose beyond his abilities, and his mathematical promise undermined by his untidy work. The report gave few clues that […]
First edition of Isaac Newton’s Principia set to fetch $1m at auction
Rare European copy of key mathematics text is going under hammer at Christies in New York with record guide price. A first edition of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica could become the most expensive print sold of the revolutionary text when it goes under the hammer with a guide price of at least $1m (790,000) […]
Watermark Designs Introduces New H-Line Collection of Bath Faucets Designed in Collaboration with Mark Zeff, Reflects Its New York Heritage
Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) February 04, 2015 Watermark Designs together with renowned interior designer Mark Zeff collaborated on the new collection that Zeff originally created for his own design project at 500 W 21st, a 32 unit luxury condo building with two penthouses and two duplexes. The H-Line Collection combines the best of Watermark Designs […]