Lyrics
Living Edition publish under the unifying title The Creation Week an epical lyrics series that will collect a set of six books in a common format, which render the monographs on each one of six outstanding physicists from the Austrian Empire or Danubian Monarchy, i.e., from the early 19th until the early 20th century. Subtitled Day One until Day Six, each volume is composed as an epic poem in homage to the scientists: Christian Doppler, Joseph Loschmidt, Josef Stefan, Ludwig Boltzmann, Ernst Mach, Friedrich Hasenöhrl, thus reporting on the essentials of their achievements. The series The Creation Week reveals the lone struggling of these great minds against the many adversities in their time to set up to the fundamental laws of natural science their formulae, which contributed to leading on to Modern Physics.
The author and physicist Peter Maria Schuster, who says about himself to be ‘a poet strayed into physics’, has undertaken this literary exploration of physicists who acted during the late Habsburg Monarchy. He traces with empathy and historical accuracy the lives and the geniuses, which guided these scientists to their revolutionary discoveries.
Each book comes enriched with art illustrations by the artist Helmut Krumpel.
The first three volumes of the series—on Doppler, on Loschmidt and on Stefan—are available by now, please refer to the corresponding titles as listed below.
Schöpfungswoche—Tag eins
Christian Doppler zur Huldigung
(The Creation Week—Day One
In Homage to Christian Doppler)
ISBN 978–3-901585–02-9 (ISBN-10: 3–901585-02–8)
Living Edition, May 2003: 64 pages; 8 tempera paint illustrations by the artist Helmut Krumpel and 15 black-and-white partial reproductions thereof being inserted into the text, each a portrait photo of the author and of the artist; 210×150 mm; 210 g; Gb/hardcover, fine linen finishing; designed, typeset and printed in Vienna, Austria, by arrangement with: TechnoGraphic Wien
German edition
€ 15,00 (Austria and retail/int’l)
€ 13,64 (net price)
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Schöpfungswoche—Tag zwei
Joseph Loschmidt zur Huldigung
(The Creation Week—Day Two
In Homage to Joseph Loschmidt)
ISBN 978–3-901585–04-3 (ISBN-10: 3–901585-04–4)
Living Edition, May 2004: 128 pages; 14 illustrations, thereof 8 pen-and-ink artworks by Helmut Krumpel, each a portrait photo of the author and of the artist; 210×150 mm; 445 g; Gb/hardcover, fine linen finishing; designed, typeset and printed in Vienna, Austria, by arrangement with: TechnoGraphic Wien
German edition
€ 18,00 (Austria and retail/int’l)
€ 16,36 (net price)
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Schöpfungswoche—Tag drei
Josef Stefan zur Huldigung
(The Creation Week—Day Three
In Homage to Josef Stefan)
ISBN 978–3-901585–06-7 (ISBN-10: 3–901585-06–0)
Living Edition, May 2006: 144 pages; 12 etching artworks by Helmut Krumpel, each a portrait photo of the author and of the artist; 210×150 mm; 435 g; Gb/hardcover, fine linen finishing; designed, typeset and printed in Vienna, Austria, by arrangement with: TechnoGraphic Wien
German edition
€ 18,00 (Austria and retail/int’l)
€ 16,36 (net price)
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Týden stvoření—Den první
Na počest Christiana Dopplera
(The Creation Week—Day One
In Homage to Christian Doppler)
ISBN 978–3-901585–07-4 (ISBN-10: 3–901585-07–9)
Living Edition, Sept. 2006: 64 pages; black-and-white reproductions of the 8 tempera paint illustrations from the German original by Helmut Krumpel, each a portrait photo of the author and of the artist; 210×150 mm; 350 g; Gb/hardcover, fine linen finishing; designed, typeset and printed in Vienna, Austria, by arrangement with: TechnoGraphic Wien
Czech edition
€ 10,80 (Austria and retail/int’l)
€ 9,82 (net price)
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This book is the translation into Czech of the first epic—about the Austrian physicist Christina Doppler—of the epical lyrics series of six volumes, which becomes published by Living Edition under the collecting title The Creation Week, Day One to Day Six.
The illustrations reproduced in the Czech edition are black-and-white reproductions of the coloured tempera paint illustrations by the artist Helmut Krumpel in the German original epic.