Now Nicholas Shrady tells the story of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, from its curse-ridden beginnings - construction was halted for a century after the erection of the first four stories in - through earthquakes, world wars, the onslaught of modern tourism, and a $30 million stabilization and restoration/5(15). Tilt: A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa. Shrady, Nicholas. Published by Simon Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A., ISBN ISBN by Nicholas Shrady. "In Tilt, author Nicholas Shrady reveals how the campanile, or bell tower, in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli became the iconic Tower of Pisa. Even standing straight and true, the tower's marble and lime facade would be instantly recognizable the world over. Yet its distinctive tilt, which measured/5(6).
TILT is all about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Well, pretty much. Its year history, including the years it took to build the thing at a stutter start and stop pace, is so intertwined with Pisa itself that the reader gets an abbreviated history of the city's glory days whether one cares much or not. Luckily, TILT is commendably short. A compelling biography of the iconic Tower of Pisa. In this unconventional biography, Nicholas Shrady recounts the rich history of the Tower of Pisa, a structure internationally recognized as both an architectural improbability and a cultural icon. Shrady traces the seminal events in Pisa that prompted the building of the leaning tower, the. Tilt: a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. Tilt: a skewed history of the Tower of Pisa by Shrady, Nicholas. Publication date Topics Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy).
He summarizes the tower's history, including its importance for the city of Pisa, which was a great maritime republic during the Middle Ages; explains why the story of Galileo's use of the tower to conduct experiments on falling objects was probably fabricated by one of the master's disciples; discusses the 19th-century Romantic poets' fanciful idea that the tower's tilt was deliberate on the part of its anonymous architect; and tells the story of the tower's near destruction by the Allies. by Nicholas Shrady. "In Tilt, author Nicholas Shrady reveals how the campanile, or bell tower, in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli became the iconic Tower of Pisa. Even standing straight and true, the tower's marble and lime facade would be instantly recognizable the world over. Yet its distinctive tilt, which measured. And the tower's tilt was noted long before completion; upper floors were actually slanted with respect to the lower part of the tower to try to keep them level. The author recounts how the tower became both an embarrasement (as a defective building) and a part of legend (as the place where Galileo supposedly dropped different weights to disprove Aristotle).
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