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Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe: Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum (Spatmittelalter Und Reformation Neue Reihe)
Inventing Inventors in Renaissance Europe Polydore Vergil's De Inventoribus Rerum - Spatmittelalter Und Reformation Neue Reihe
Author: Catherine Atkinson
Polydore Vergil of Urbino (ca.1470-1555) fired his readers' imagination with his encyclopaedic book "On the inventors of all things" (De inventoribus rerum 1499). His account of the manifold origins of sciences, crafts and social institutions is a praise of man's inventive genius and a prototypical cultural history. "Polydorus" was a household n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783161491870
ISBN-10: 3161491874
Publication Date: 6/30/2007
Pages: 336
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