Science: Italy from The Owl at the Bridge

"Leonardo called his notebooks 'a collection without order taken from many papers which I have copied here, hoping afterward to arrange them in order, each in its place, according to the subjects treated of.' He died before he could carry out this plan. Now more than 400 years after his death, the contemplated arrangement has been made in… Ler mais sobre este item

"Th story of Vitruvian Man is actually two stories: one individual and one collective. The individual story, of course, is Leonardo's own... how [he] came to draw his famous picture... The second story unfolds on a much broader scale. It's the story of how Vitruvian Man first came into being as an idea more than two thousand… Ler mais sobre este item

Title continues: "insieme ad altri lavori sulla storia della scienza e della civiltà." Complete articles: Le cognizioni oftalmologiche di Dante; Le Matematiche nel secolo di Dante; Distanze e dimensioni cosmiche secondo Dante; Chemisches und Technologisches bei Dante; La geografia di Dante. xi, 96 pages; 25 cm. Lacks all after page 96; part unopened; stitching loose; paper… Ler mais sobre este item

520 p., [1] leaf of plates, illus.; 23.5 cm. Italian contributions to the history of science in the form of 96 letters. Covers a wide range of subjects: Leonardo da Vinci , Volta and other electrical advances, Galileo, medicine, Columbus, Vespucci, geographical discoveries. North American libraries own microfilm, but perhaps only the Burdy has the actual volume.… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. Two volumes in one: [20] pages, 656, 676 columns, [2] pages, 212, 200 columns; [18], 294 pages, 106 columns, [17] pages, index. Besterman 3727. Renaissance Italian artists and merchants influenced the mathematics of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in several ways. In the 15th century a group of Tuscan artists incorporated linear perspective into their practice and teaching,… Ler mais sobre este item