FABS Handpress Era: John Peckham’s Perspectiva Communis + Open Mic for 16th Century
Sponsored by FABS David DiLaura will speak on "John Peckham's Perspectiva Communis: An example of the transition from manuscript to the handpress." In the half-century after the appearance of moveable type printing in the Latin West, many important, widely used texts on natural philosophy appeared in print. Written in about 1270, Peckham's Perspectiva Communis was […]