SINGLE PLATES

John Lodge Cowley, Illustration and Mensuration of Solid Geometry, third edition revised, published in the year of Cowley's death 1787. See also Durer's experiments in mathematics and paper folding.

Thomas Fale, The Art of Dialling, London 1627.

Johannes Trithemius, Polygraphie, Paris 1561

Humphrey Repton, Theory and Practice of Landscape gardening , London 1816

Joseph Priestley Familiar Introduction , London 1770 a figure lifting up from the page

Perpetual Calendar, Paris 1774

Jean Galos, Paris c1545

a Parisian edition of Apianus, Paris 1551

AN EDITION OF MUNSTER WITH VOLVELLES AND THREADS

AN EDITION OF EUCLID WITH PAPER MODELS ON THE PAGE

ILLUSTRATIONS ABOVE

01 Sebastian Munster, Organum Uranicum... Basle 1536. To further demonstrate astronomic information, a section of card revolves around its centre and indicates information on a dial. It is called a VOLVELLE.
 
02 Humphrey Repton
 
03 a wonderful addition to the books that sit up and do something the fold out figure and mica window, from Joseph Moxon, Practical Perspective; or Perspective Made Easie ,London 1670

04 An Italian Manuscript concerning "Pythagoras' Game" or the "Rithmimacia" a highly complex mathematical game, with an intriguing insert loosely attached to the body of the text with the appropriate numbers and positions. 05 From the Giannalisa Feltrinelli Library as sold at Christie's in December 1997 (lot 220) with a letter that explained that the second half of the MS was found in the studio of the Aristotelian polymath Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and sent to Cosimo Rucellai in Florence.

Pacificus Maximus, De Componendo hexametro et pentametro , Florence 1485 with movable dial (volvelle in woodcut)
 
06 the spire is unfolded and extended beyond the pages of the book Hartmann Schedel, Liber Chronicarum Nuremberg 1493