Philosophy
Frankly, I never heard of him but he certainly represents the old fine art of engraving.
Francesco Bartolozzi [Wikipedia]
Francesco Bartolozzi online
Online book
- Lucretius - De Rerum Natura - Matter And Void
In his fascinating book, The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt tells the gripping story of the rediscovery, during the Middle Ages, of one of the philosophical masterpieces of the Classical period in Rome: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),...
- Giovanni De La Fontana...engineer And Magician
A water clock. Wikipedia... Giovanni Fontana (ca. 1395 – ca. 1455) was a fifteenth-century Venetian physician and engineer who portrayed himself as a magus. He was born in Venice in the 1390s and attended the University of Padua, where he received...
- Big Science And The Lhc
Science and society... Gian Francesco Giudice writes "...I would like to address a question that, although foreign to the immediate research goals of the LHC, necessarily concerns every large scientific project that requires enormous financial, technological,...
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi...giambattista Riccioli's "almagestum Novum"--the Moon
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit, was born on this date in 1618. "In the late 1640s, he produced a large and detailed map of the moon, based on his own observations. His fellow Jesuit and Bolognese, Giambattista Riccioli, then invented a...
- Claude Mellan's Moon Engravings [1637]
Claude Mellan and Pierre Gassendi Three maps of the Moon 1637 These three maps of the Moon by the celebrated engraver Mellan, whose work was commissioned by Pierre Gassendi, show three different phases of the Earth's satellite. Claude Mellan...
Philosophy
Francesco Bartolozzi...Italian engraver
Frankly, I never heard of him but he certainly represents the old fine art of engraving.
Francesco Bartolozzi [Wikipedia]
Francesco Bartolozzi online
Online book
- Lucretius - De Rerum Natura - Matter And Void
In his fascinating book, The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt tells the gripping story of the rediscovery, during the Middle Ages, of one of the philosophical masterpieces of the Classical period in Rome: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things),...
- Giovanni De La Fontana...engineer And Magician
A water clock. Wikipedia... Giovanni Fontana (ca. 1395 – ca. 1455) was a fifteenth-century Venetian physician and engineer who portrayed himself as a magus. He was born in Venice in the 1390s and attended the University of Padua, where he received...
- Big Science And The Lhc
Science and society... Gian Francesco Giudice writes "...I would like to address a question that, although foreign to the immediate research goals of the LHC, necessarily concerns every large scientific project that requires enormous financial, technological,...
- Francesco Maria Grimaldi...giambattista Riccioli's "almagestum Novum"--the Moon
Francesco Maria Grimaldi, an Italian Jesuit, was born on this date in 1618. "In the late 1640s, he produced a large and detailed map of the moon, based on his own observations. His fellow Jesuit and Bolognese, Giambattista Riccioli, then invented a...
- Claude Mellan's Moon Engravings [1637]
Claude Mellan and Pierre Gassendi Three maps of the Moon 1637 These three maps of the Moon by the celebrated engraver Mellan, whose work was commissioned by Pierre Gassendi, show three different phases of the Earth's satellite. Claude Mellan...