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“Of a truth I confess they [the tales] are not mine, and if I said otherwise I should lie, but nevertheless I have faithfully set them down according to the manner in which they are told…”Le XIII Piacevoli Notti… Giovanni Francesco Straparola (ca. 1480- ca. 1557) In Venetia:...

Thursday, September 28, 2017 ASB 220 Pioneers of Science: Ten Thousand Pages That Shook the World Luise Poulton, Managing Curator, Rare Books, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of UtahEuclid’s Elements of Geometry was first printed in 1482, just as soon as one of the early...

“The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon…”The beet is the ancient ancestor of the autumn moon… Tom Robbins (b. 1932) PS3568 O233 B4 1990zBroadside printed ca. 1990s. Printer unknown.View the original article on the OpenBook Blog...