In the world of found-book-objects, few I think are as deeply removed and as deeply obscure as the work by Otto F. Fleiss, a butcher and sculptor in fat. And lard. The pamphlet's title is a throw-back ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 632 Blog Bookstore Since I had a go at early illustration earlier today in this blog I thought to write something about a book that is probably one of the most beautifully ...

For a while in the 30's and 40's and 50's the soda fountain occupied what might have been a real keystone position in the panoply of American entertainment. It seemed to be everywhere, in every city ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 2461 At first glance this detailed and dense map looks foreboding and somehow off-putting--at least for me, and that was before I understood what the numbers represented.

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 781 Blog Bookstore Nels Quevli, the Mason City, Iowa author of the oddly-titled What Should be Done with the Bodies of the Dead (1936), does indeed have a point that ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1248 Yes, the heavens are made of circles, somewhat, especially if you were observing a three-dimensional figure in two-space, where all spheres are circles. But here we're ...

This lovely and lonely engraving comes from Vincent Wing’s (1643-1726) Geodaetes practicus Redivius 1 (The Art of Surveying…), a book printed in London in 1700. It is a classic work and much used for ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1498 "Nabed Efyhik Wfnzo Cpmfke'"--Issac Newton, ca. 1660 So begins this extraordinary work known as the Fitzwilliam Manuscript 1: Isaac Newton's name, plus for words on two ...

JF Ptak Science Books Revisting/Expanding Post #76 (from 2008) Part I: Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) was an extraordinary mathematical talent—he was also blind (from about the age of one), and ...