Wednesday, November 09, 2005

On the Origins of Modernity


Telluris theoria sacra
Thomas Burnet
1684


The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures
of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner

Daniel Defoe
1720


Bybel der Nature
Jan Swammerdam
1758

Sydney University's Origins of Modernity from their Rare Books Collection traces the development of modern thought and culture through many of the most influential natural science, philosophy, literature, medicine, alchemy and astronomy books issued during the last few centuries.

No comments :

Post a Comment

Comments are all moderated so don't waste your time spamming: they will never show up.

If you include ANY links that aren't pertinent to the blog post or discussion they will be deleted and a rash will break out in your underwear.

Also: please play the ball and not the person.

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

 
Creative Commons License