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 ...

For a while in the 30's and 40's and 50's the soda fountain occupied what might have been a real keystone position in the panoply of American entertainment. It seemed to be everywhere, in every city ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 632 Blog Bookstore Since I had a go at early illustration earlier today in this blog I thought to write something about a book that is probably one of the most beautifully ...

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 LLC Post 781 Blog Bookstore Nels Quevli, the Mason City, Iowa author of the oddly-titled What Should be Done with the Bodies of the Dead (1936), does indeed have a point that ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1248 Yes, the heavens are made of circles, somewhat, especially if you were observing a three-dimensional figure in two-space, where all spheres are circles. But here we're ...

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 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 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 ...

JF Ptak Science Books Revisting/Expanding Post #76 (from 2008) Part I: Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) was an extraordinary mathematical talent—he was also blind (from about the age of one), and ...

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 ...