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Military Perspective Combining illusionistic depth and orthographic measure Ambrosius Wilfflingseder's Erotemata musices The earliest examples of volvelles in a music text Sebastiano Serlio’s spatial representation through linee occulte Hidden lines and architectural space Conflicting Sources for 3D Replicas Adam Philippon’s Santa Casa of Loreto Pages of Porcelain The journal of the ship Gelderland Notes on the Colosseum from the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Dissecting, Combining and Mirroring Roman monuments An Edo- Period Flap Anatomy Manuscript Transforming Book Forms and Medical Knowledge in the 17th and 18th century An important 13th-century book on optics The work of the Silesian friar and mathematician Witelo, a shadowy figure in the history of science Adventures in three dimensions How Renaissance publishers explored new ways of representing the world From 3D to 2D … and back Re-creating the illusion of a 3D world Ordering the Internal Body: A Thirteenth-Century Uterus Diagram in Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399 Exploring the medieval understanding of the human body Authorial Politics and Material Innovation of Johann Remmelin’s Catoptrum Microcosmicum Working through the layered mystery of Catoptrum Microcosmicum. Philibert de L’Orme’s theory of stereotomy in the Premier tome de l’architecture The theorisation of one of the most fascinating and complex building techniques Fra Giocondo and the first illustrated edition of Vitruvius An update of the ancient text as an operative tool for the editor’s contemporaries Ink and light - Le Blon’s Coloritto and Newton’s Opticks A new colour printing manner based on painters’s practice Luca & Leonardo – The Divine Proportion and a life-long Renaissance friendship The only book illustrated by Leonardo da Vinci in his lifetime Leonardo inside out The secret of generation François de Foix-Candale, author of the Elements of Geometry Publishing Euclid in sixteenth-century France Richard of St Victor's commentary on the Book of Ezekiel Envisioning architecture in the 12th century Johannes Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum Revealing the “Secret of the Cosmos” Russell Maret's Interstices & Intersections A book featuring thirteen Euclidean propositions Peter Apian's Cosmographicus Liber A pioneering work in astronomical and geographical instrumentation William Hunter's The Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus Exhibited in Figures A revolutionary study of the pregnany body