Dallas, TX – “The most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to sixteenth-century science was without doubt the Astronomicum Caesareum of Petrus Apianus.”
This is how Owen Gingerich begins his 1971
astronomy
This rather odd-looking globe headed to auction in New York on June 12 reveals some fascinating snippets in the history of popular science, not the least of which is the relatively unknown work of Danish amateur astronomer Emmy Ingeborg Brun (1872-1929). According to Christie’
New York—Swann Galleries will offer an
New York—On Thursday, April 3, coinciding with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Swann
