Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1539.
The Almshouse and Charity Hospital at Lyon, chartered in 1531, was, from the start, a complicated and multifarious institution. A signal drought that affected most of France starting in 1529 created a paucity of wheat, and famine conditions began to emerge, which were especially harsh in.....
Basel: Oporinus, 1550.
In the 1549 first edition of the Initia doctrinæ physicæ—essentially the first scientific textbook of the Reformation—Philipp Melanchthon refutes the heliocentrism of Copernicus with a single blow, invoking Ecclesiastes 4:5: “The earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets.” Moreover, he writes, referring to Copernicus.....
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Edo: Kenjuku kankō, 1848.
A most compelling and complete Dutch-Japanese dictionary and phrasebook, published in Japan in the transitional moment between the Kōka and Kaei eras in the years before the Meiji restoration and the end of Japan's isolationist policies. The two-volume dictionary would have been of great value to.....
Salamanca: Pedro de Castro, 1538.
First edition. The University of Salamanca has always been inextricably linked to the New World. Geographers at Salamanca endorsed Columbus's plan to seek a western route to the Indies, helping him to effectively lobby Isabella and Ferdinand for permission and funds for the voyages. In.....