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© August 2005
revised 26 June 2008

GALLERY EXHIBITS
on the baroque art of informing,
in several parts

Forthcoming exhibits are themed around specific works:

• John Dee’s “Groundplat of my Mathematicall Praeface: annexed to Euclide” (1570)
  
• Wenceslaus Hollar’s etching, “Elephas hic per Europam visus est.” (print pub. in 1629)
  
• John Bulwer’s “the art of manuall rhetoricke” (1644)
  
• Athanasius Kircher’s Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae (1646)
  
• Johann Amos Comenius’ Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658, 1659)
  
• John Wilkins’ Essay Towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668)
  
• Robert Hooke’s “aenigmatical” theory of the u-joint (1674 and 1676)
  
• Joseph Moxon’s Regulæ trium ordinum literarum typographicarum (1676)
  
• an accounting manual for women, “By one of that Sex” (1678)
  
• Nehemiah Grew’s Musæum Regalis Societatis (1681)
  
• Nehemiah Grew’s New Experiments, and Useful Observations Concerning Sea-Water Made Fresh ... (1683, 1684)
  

as well as more general topics such as:

• Information Trees
  
• Pointers (pointing hands, arrows, referencing lines)
  
• Almanacs
  

Each makes an interesting case study of innovative practices in print communication.

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