incunabular illumination

From the Earth to the Moon* is Jules Verne 's 1865 novel about America's attempt to send a projectile to the moon. This book isn...

Maybe Eco has a kind of obsessive-compulsiveness? Or maybe he just enjoys lists for lists' sake. Two of the examples used in his essay w...

Umberto Eco is one deep-thinking, renaissance man. The Infinity of Lists * is both thought provoking in its depth, and mind numbing in it...

duuurr...etymology! I love etymology, but I'm not too sure that extends to Word Origins * by Anatoly Liberman . Now, a quickie peru...

I remember the late, great astronomer, Carl Sagan from his Cosmos television series based on his book of the same name.* Sagan did for a...

As I'm sure you know, I'm a fan of bookmarks . SO much so, that I've dabbled in making them myself a little bit. In most cases...

Gilgamesh! I guess you could say I'm on an epic poem kick , although, given the frequency of how often I've actually read an e...

Toby Lester , you crazy mixed-up history geek, what were you thinking, taking on Leonardo in a 200 page* book? Interesting, yes. Did I ...

As Night Follows Day , is by french writer Pierre Moinot. I read the English translation by Jody Gladding, with Elizabeth Deshays. The Fre...