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Historiae Mundi Libri Triginta Septem
The Brockhaus of Antiquity
In Zeiten vor Wikipedia gab es wiederholt Versuche, das Wissen einer Epoche zusammenzufassen. Die „Naturkunde“ des Plinius war für fast 1500 Jahre die Enzyklopädie schlechthin. Ein Ein-Mann-Monumentalwerk, das seinesgleichen sucht!
Four books on measurement
The Calculated Human Being According to Albrecht Dürer
Why was Albrecht Dürer so successful? For many different reasons. One of them: Dürer was a specialist in metrology and mathematics, too. He was particularly fascinated by human proportions – to that extent that he wrote four treatises on the subject.
Histoire satyrique de la vie et des ouvrages de M. Rousseau, en vers ainsi qu’en prose
The Other Rousseau
When Jean Jacques Rousseau came to Paris, he was called ‘the little Rousseau’. The great Rousseau’s name was Jean Baptiste and he was considered an important author. Today, we hardly know anything about him. He became a victim of the highly competitive literary market at the time of the Enlightenment.
Bilderbuch für Kinder, enthaltend: eine angenehme Sammlung von Thieren, Pflanzen, Blumen, Früchten, Mineralien, Trachten, und allerhand andern unterrichtenden Gegenständen aus dem Reiche der Natur, der Künste und Wissenschaften (…), 3 Bände
The Butchered Children’s Book
Bertuch’s picture book for children is considered a milestone in educational non-fiction literature. It sold extremely well. The producers of this unauthorised reprint wanted to participate in this success. Bertuch didn’t think it was funny at all...
