In the world of found-book-objects, few I think are as deeply removed and as deeply obscure as the work by Otto F. Fleiss, a butcher and sculptor in fat. And lard. The pamphlet's title is a throw-back ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1498 "Nabed Efyhik Wfnzo Cpmfke'"--Issac Newton, ca. 1660 So begins this extraordinary work known as the Fitzwilliam Manuscript 1: Isaac Newton's name, plus for words on two ...

The following abstract is taken from the great AIP website section PROLA: H. J. Williams and W. Shockley A hollow rectangle cut from a single crystal of 3.8 percent silicon iron has been studied with ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2461 At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented.

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2885 I've written many times on the technical and political end of the creation and deployment of the atomic bomb, along with some posts on the use and manipulation of ...

This lovely and lonely engraving comes from Vincent Wing’s (1643-1726) Geodaetes practicus Redivius 1 (The Art of Surveying…), a book printed in London in 1700. It is a classic work and much used for ...

PM newspaper (active 1940-1948) was a left-leaning newspaper funded by Marshall Field III, and was home to excellent reporting. Among the staff writers was I.F.Stone and staff photographers Margaret ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This is just a lovely little mechanical drawing that I found in the pages of the 5 May 1880 issue of the Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences and I decided to ...

Mercedes-Buromaschinen* evidently came into existence in 1906 in Berlin before moving on to other cities, including expanding into Zagreb and Beograb, Yugoslavia, which published this ad. It was big ...

Luis Collado de Lebrija, the Royal Engineer of the Army of Lombardy and Piedmont, wrote his superior artillery manual Practica Manuale di Artegliteria and published it in 1588--he was one of the five ...