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Maphisters,
$ 60 is a big price for a book (which may well be warranted here) ;
however, the book is also for sale at a big discount :
http://www.amazon.com/Prints-Pursuit-Knowledge-Modern-Harvard/dp/0300171072/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1317972410&sr=1-1
So I ordered the book from Amazon. But knowing that there's a price to
everything : what may this kind of price difference mean for the book
market /authors / publishing in the long run ?
Robert Braeken
From: Joel Kovarsky <[email protected]>
To: MapHist <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 7, 2011 12:40 AM
Subject: [MapHist] Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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This may be of interest to several on this list:
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe by Susan Dackerman
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300171075
Aug 22, 2011
442 p., 9 1/2 x 12 1/2
297 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300171075
Paper: $60.00
From the description:
An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of
science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance,
far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific
investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with
cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals
published; Albrecht Dürer produced the first printed maps of the
constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century...
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>Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe features
>fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe
>gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical "flap" prints; and paper scientific
>instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the "do-it-yourself"
>paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a
>facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble.
>
Joel Kovarsky
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