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Once around the sun

Item date(s): 1982

Kristjan Gudmundsson  - (book artist)


Pages: unpaged
Size: 270mm
Edition: One of 100 copies


Place publication: Aachen Mümchen
Publisher: Ottenhausen Verlag
ISBN: 3-922760-05-8

Additional notes:
Two volumes in brown card slipcase with two cards giving the colophon.

This is the second edition. The first edition was published in 1975 in an edition of 150 copies of which 50 were signed and numbered.

Volume I. 724 pages.

The time which the Earth takes to complete one orbit around the sun we call a year. The carender year (tropical year) has 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 45.98 seconds = 31 556 626 seconds. Each dot in Volume 1 corresponds to one second.

Volume II. 720 pages.The distance covered by the Earth in one second amounts to 29771 metres (average value). The total lengeth of the lines in Volume II corresponds to this distance.

Ref: GB/14361







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