Proportion der Menschen und Rosse extrahirt aus Heinrich Lautensacks Circkels und Richtschheyts, auch der Perspektiva und Propotion der Menschen, kurze, doch gründliche Unterweisung - Staatsbibliothek Bamberg JH.Msc.Art.6. Lautensack, Heinrich (Kunsthandwerker), 1727
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Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel vnd Richtscheyt (Four Books on Measurement). Albrecht Dürer, 1538
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Rara arithmetica; a catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI, with description of those in the library of George Arthur Plimpton, of New York (1908)
David Eugene Smith; George Arthur Plimpton
Plimpton’s mathematical library, preserved at Columbia University, may be the first specialized private collection of antiquarian scientific books formed by an American for which we have an annotated bibliographical catalogue. Published in 1908, Rara arithmetica is still widely consulted for its descriptions of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century books. Smith also discussed some of Plimpton’s early manuscripts in his History of Mathematics (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1923–25), and issued an addendum to his catalogue of Plimpton’s library in 1939
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The essentials of lettering; a manual for students and designers (1912)
by Thomas Ewing French and Robert Meiklejohn
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Operating manual for spaceship earth by Buckminster Fuller
Operating manual for spaceship earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1968, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967
The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied.
Fuller would later partner with the Walt Disney Company to consult on an attraction at EPCOT Center called Spaceship Earth, which opened with the park in 1982.
Metamorphosis naturalis byJohannes Goedaert, 1662-1669
LIII. Musca Vomitoria (Blue bottle fly, Calliphora vomitoria)
LIV. Musca Cadaverina (Pyrellia cadaverina)
LV. Musca Caesar ( Lucilia caesar, common green bottle)via: Botanicus
Sound made by a Chimpanzee associated with food
From: ‘Chimpanzee intelligence and its vocal expressions’ by Robert M. Yerkes and Blanche W. Learned. Published 1925
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Mittheilungen aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden.
Dresden : Verlag von R. v. Zahn, 1875-1878.
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The British desmidieae (1848)
Author: Ralfs, John; Jenner, Edward, 1803-1872
Subject: Desmidieae; Algae — Great Britain
Publisher: London : Reeve, Benham, and Reeve
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Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium Cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium: deque causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora goemetrica Kepler, Johannes 1596
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Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.”
In this book Kepler announced the discovery of his third law of planetary motion: the square of the period of time of a planet is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun. Kepler connected planetary motion with musical harmonies, with geometrical figures, with the relations of numbers. Newton’s discoveries were based on Kepler’s three laws.
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