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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

19th C. Breast Cancer Lithograph Makes Surgery Look Beautiful

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by Stephen J. Gertz A copy of the first edition of the most complete anatomical atlas and arguably the most beautiful of the nineteent...
Monday, August 19, 2013

The Glorious Future Of Detroit Under Glass, Including Television And The Hyperloop, In 1884

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by Stephen J. Gertz Poetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon The Mistakes of the Church - The Mistakes of...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Alan Turing Takes Off At Christie's

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by Stephen J. Gertz A copy of Alan Turing's On Computable Numbers, With an Application to the entscheidungsproblem (1936), the fou...
Monday, February 11, 2013

The Elegantly Macabre Anatomical Plates Of Gautier-D'Agoty

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by Stephen J. Gertz A rare, stunning first edition, first issue copy of Jacques-Fabien Gautier-D'Agoty's  unsettlingly beautiful,...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Guericke's Got Plenty O' Nothin', and Nothin's Plenty For Him (1672)

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by Stephen J. Gertz One day in 1656, the citizens of Magdeburg, Germany were startled by the appearance of strange unidentified fl...
Monday, January 14, 2013

In Search Of Athanasius Kircher

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1602, the year of Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher’s birth, the study of nature was called natural philosophy...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Beware Of Jewish Doctors, 1937 Edition

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by Stephen J. Gertz The American Medical Association and the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association come under at...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Magnificent 17th Century Maps To The Stars' Homes

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by Stephen J. Gertz  Unidentified Los Angeles rare book dealer offering celestial maps. Here in Los Angeles you can't throw a ro...
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