Gerald Jenkins

Indeholder "How to make the boxes", " Type of glue", " Scoring", "Christopher's Box", "The Magyar Box", "The Chinese Dragon Box", "The Arabesque Box", "The Inca Box", "The Herbal Box", "The Greek Pot", "Yet More Boxes!", " How to design gift boxes of your own", " Special advice", " Gift boxes with sliding drawers", " Open Topped Boxes - Card vases", " Circular and oval gift boxes", " Gift boxes with 'pop-ends'", " Gift boxes which are antiprisms", "The Circus Box", "The Four Seasons Box", "The Triangle Box", "Ptolemy's Box", "The Snakeskin Box", "The Stencilled Box", "The Nativity Box".

En meget engelsk bog, hvor man kan klippe ud og lime, så man får 14 forskellige små æsker. Bogen er lavet i noget lidt kraftigt pap, så man får nogle stabile og relativt holdbare æsker ud af det.… (mehr)

I assembled the three models. The moon globe is straightforward and satisfying. The other two models are interesting. I enjoyed assembling them and working with them. The mini-book is a tiny bit incoherent and several pages of its discussion of tides were more or less incomprehensible to me. Otherwise I would have given the book five stars. It's not a straightforward task to come up with the ideas for the models (except in the case of moon globe), and then there is the work of implementation. One of a kind!

Note: It turns out that the equation of time changes a good bit as the years go by, so the equation of time reference card is certainly obsolete.

Project: Figure out how these models were layed out by the authors, so that I could lay them out myself.… (mehr)

This book is fascinating. I checked it out from the library, so obviously did not actually construct the models. Each of the models gets a little card explaining facts about the particular shape, and the colours are chosen to emphasize interesting properties of the model. Most, but not all of the models are shown on the cover. The design is extremely clever and thorough, and makes one think that the authors really liked polyhedra. Simply reading the book and working out the structure and symmetries of the various polyhedra is a delight.… (mehr)