Newton copied the misprint of a section numbering into his citation (92 and 93 instead of 62 and 63). So he had the edition with imprint of "Viduam Nic. de Sercy" versus the anonymous imprint! And thankfully we decided to link to the Sercy ed. a long time ago bc our scan is better! #BookHistory
Reviewing one of our citation encoder's work, and one of them has stumbled across evidence to show which of the two Parisian 1642 editions of D'Espagnet's Arcanum hermeticae Newton used. We haven't been able to figure this out bc one is a line-by-line reprint of the other, but...(1/2) #BookHistory
Livestreamed lecture today (ENG) 13h30 EST at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social@spoerhase.bsky.social#skystorians#history#bookhistorywww.ici-berlin.org/events/carlo...
The issue of scaling and rescaling texts has gained new relevance today due to profound technological transformations. Artificial intelligence tools can now summarize long texts at the push of a butto...
Using fake imprints was a mocking sport in #earlymodern#bookhistory#skystorians Published by someone from somewhere / printed by himself using a press in this year.
"a 17th C manuscript of the Canon of the Mass designed to replicate the look of a printed book. Here the title page emulates a copper-plate engraving that might have been seen as the title page of a printed book." #EarlyModern#BookHistory
53 #Manuscripts digitized by the #Vatican this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024... Has three Missals: an early Glagolitic, a late pretending-to-be-print, and a fragmentary 12th c in Beneventan script, and 4 volumes of a massive multi-volume Missal. Also German, Humanist and more #MedievalSky
A total of fifty-three manuscripts were digitized this week. The largest number were from Vat.lat, with eighteeen, and Ott.lat with sixteen. Nine came from Barb.lat, completing the triumvirate of fon...
New rare & antiquarian book auctions, starting tonight from 8pm. #antiquarian#history#books#rarebooks#bookhistory#earlymodern#travel#science#religion#philosophy#maps#bookauctionsebay.co.uk/str/wisdompe...
New research project: #Euclid#Translations#Elementsanr.fr/Project-ANR-...#bookhistory#histsci#earlymodern
Euclid in the Modern Age aims at providing a wide-ranging investigation of the cultural, social, scientific and epistemological impact of the diffusion of Euclid’s Elements, the most important and wid...
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