Jade: A Gemologist's Guide Special Edition Science Taylor casts his life-size statues

Taylor casts his life-size statues from a special kind of cement that facilitates reef growth

and pigment for thousands of years

the two temples are among the least understood by the visitor

the Danish scientist Nicolaus Steno recognized them as shark teeth

5 inch range between 45-55 feet long

Jade: A Gemologist's Guide Special Edition Science Taylor casts his life-size statuesSpecial Limited Edition of 100 Signed and Numbered Copies Bound in Thai Silk with Slipcase The study of jade is unlike that of any other gem, trespassing across conventional boundaries, particularly those of the gemological and mineralogical realm. Despite the march of mineralogical orthodoxy and conformity, the word jade is a fist in the air of protest, crying out not for further reduction and definition, but an expansion of the mineralogical canon