REMARKABLE RENAISSANCE BOOKS

Remarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very first titles printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the Enlightenment. John Boardley revisits works including Gutenbergs Bible, a mathematical book illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci, Galileos observations of the Moons mountains, Keplers treatise on a supernova, Robert Hookes discovery of microscopic honeycomb structures he coined cells, and Maria Sibylla Merians pioneering studies of metamorph...[Llegir més]