epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Elizabeth L. Eisenstein [Eisenstein]

Fig. 28. The full title page of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs contrasts the fate of Protestants (on the left), who are burned on earth but triumph forever in heaven, with ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-07-21 | Author:Elting E. Morison [Morison, Elting E.]

* * * * This essay was delivered as one of three lectures at the California Institute of Technology in 1963. 7 “Almost the Greatest Invention” Part I A Long ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Usher, Abbott Payson;

III The extent of the explicit contributions of Leonardo may be best appreciated by the following summary of his accomplishments in the fields of applied mechanics, hydraulics, and military engineering. ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-09 | Author:David F Noble

epub |eng | 2015-12-07 | Author:David M. Levy

[S]ometime in the eighteenth century the cultural trajectories of print and script were set by their respective relations to the hand, and from that time they did diverge. Print lost ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Headrick, Daniel R.; [Headrick, Daniel R.;]

The Gutenberg Bible, the first large book printed with movable type, came from the Mainz print shop of Johann Gutenberg in the mid-1450s. It was printed on a wooden press, ...