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Monthly Archives: August 2024
Vesalius 1543
Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1543) Best known work of early modern anatomy: Vesalius was fortunate to team up with Jan Stephan van Calcar, a remarkable artist. Even the human skeletons reveal an aesthetic appreciation of the human … Continue reading
Estienne 1545
Charles Estienne, De dissectione partium corporis humani (Paris, 1545) Clip art with woodblocks: Estienne obtained a number of woodblocks from an obscure artist. To show anatomical detail, he cut little rectangles out of the art woodblocks and substituted his own … Continue reading
Mondino 1507
Medieval human dissection manual: Written in 1316 by a professor of medicine at the University of Padua, the Mondino dei Luzzi, Anothomia (Venice, 1507) Anatomy of Mondino was the most widely-used manual for human dissection in the middle ages. To … Continue reading
Mondino 1541
Mondino dei Luzzi, Anatomia (Marburg, 1541), ed. Johann Dryander Art and anatomy converge in an illustrated manual: These human figures are more than utilitarian: walking against a real background, posed as if revealing to our eyes the unseen beauty and … Continue reading
Burnet 1684
Thomas Burnet, Theory of the Earth (London, 1684) Thomas Burnet, a royal chaplain, classical scholar, and Cambridge Platonist, published Telluris theoria sacra in 1681. Its famous frontispiece first appeared in this English edition of 1684. A circle of seven globes … Continue reading
Delamarche Orrery
An orrery, also called a planetarium, shows the choreography of planets as they dance with coordinated precision around the Sun. Early models were geocentric (Earth-centered), including the ancient Antikythera device and large mechanical clocks. This model was made in Paris … Continue reading
Herschel 1876
Caroline Herschel, Memoir and Correspondence (London, 1876) The 19th century saw an unprecedented expansion of known objects in the universe. William and Caroline Herschel conducted a comprehensive search of northern skies with telescopes powerful enough to resolve many nebulae into … Continue reading
Kircher 1650
Athanasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis (Rome, 1650) This 17th-century treatise on music shows a mechanical, water-driven harpsichord. Water enters on the right side of the diagram, turning a gear mechanism that animates a cylinder roll and keyboard. Musical notation cut into … Continue reading
Kepler 1606
Johann Kepler, De stella nova in pede serpentarii (Prague, 1606) Kepler’s star map shows the constellations of Ophiuchus (the Serpent Handler), Sagittarius and Scorpius. The Milky Way runs diagonally down from the left, and the “ecliptic,” or annual path of … Continue reading
Vincenzo Galilei 1581
Vincenzo Galilei, Dialogo della Musica Antica et della Moderna (Florence, 1581) From childhood, Galileo’s world was shaped by music. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a prominent music theorist who contributed to the development of Italian opera. This book, Vincenzo’s major … Continue reading
