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Category Archives: Galileo’s World
Newton 1687
Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (London, 1687) The Copernican idea that the Earth moves as a planet required a thorough revision of physics. Galileo undertook this task in his Discourse on Two New Sciences, published 80 years after Copernicus. … Continue reading
Newton 1733
Isaac Newton, Observations on the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John (London, 1733) For Newton, science and the Bible were not opposed, provided that one understood each correctly. In this study of the apocalyptic book of Daniel, … Continue reading
Vesalius 1546
Andreas Vesalius, Epistola (Basel, 1546) ABC’s of the life of medical students: The decorative initials used in this edition of Vesalius’ correspondence are identical to 22 different initials originally printed in De fabrica (1543). Such “historiated initials” tell stories. Little … Continue reading
Vesalius 1555
Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica (Basel, 1555), 2d ed. This book is without doubt the most handsome anatomical work of the 16th century. A dozen “muscle men” walk through its pages, removing skin and organs layer by layer, like … Continue reading
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
