An Abecedarium of Printers (1460-1964) Presented in an Exhibition at the Chapin Library Oct. 10-Nov. 19, 1966
Author: Chapin Library
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Chapin Library
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chapin Library
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chapin Library
Publisher:
Published: 1966
Total Pages:
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: British Library
Publisher:
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Chet Van Duzer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-09
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 3030227030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.
Author: Paul Binski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 1139500600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCambridge University Library's collection of illuminated manuscripts is of international significance. It originates in the medieval university and stands alongside the holdings of the colleges and the Fitzwilliam Museum. The University Library contains major European examples of medieval illumination from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, with acknowledged masterpieces of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance book art, as well as illuminated literary texts, including the first complete Chaucer manuscript. This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the Life of Edward the Confessor attributed to Matthew Paris, as well as hundreds of lesser-known items. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the catalogue contains descriptions of individual manuscripts with up-to-date assessments of their style, origins and importance, together with bibliographical references.
Author: Roger Moseley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2016-10-28
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0520291247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new.
Author: Bill Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-01-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0192894692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.
Author: Philip B. Meggs
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is the first definitive history of graphic communication. More than a thousand vivid illustrations chronicle our fascinating & unceasing quest to give visual form to ideas.