07w50:2 The Science of Leonardo da Vinci: Fritjof Capra Posted December 11th, 2007 by timothy. 0 Comments Goodreads | 2007 week 50 number 2 (The Science of Leonardo da Vinci: Fritjof Capra)
07w30:1 The Notebook Posted July 23rd, 2007 by timothy. 2 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2007 week 30 number 1 (The Notebook) Truth be told, I prepped this Goodread a day before the hardrive on my notebook computer crashed, and so I’ve had to do it all over again. Which I think is worth sharing, given the subject matter of this GR – the traditional paper notebooks, a medium endangered by fire but not by mechanical failure and magnets. It’s now become a cliché statement to say that as our the data of our world moves further and further toward the digital, the danger of losing it all one day becomes greater and greater. Nevertheless, it is statement worth repeating given that notebooks have always been about the repition of passages and quotes that can become cliché through their preservation. This GR is celebrating the digitization of some notebooks, particularly those of Leonardo Da Vinci, a hardcopy of which is now viewable at the Art Gallery of Ontario over the summer. This notebook (Codex Forster I) having achieved Da Vinci’s dream of flight to arrive here from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum last visited our city when it was exhibited at the ROM during the summer of 1998, where I first got the chance to see it. Going by the poster and mismemory, I thought the AGO was exhibiting the same spread as the ROM had, and yet, through one of the links below, I was able to remember correctly and see that the AGO is exhibiting pages 6v|7r while the ROM had shown 15v|16r. Further, the ROM had kept the pages open with a clear vinyl strap, whereas the AGO has the book displayed in an angled cradle, in its own illuminated box, beneath a piece of glass without a transparent vinyl holder. At the AGO it is accompanied by a flash animation (‘Geometrical Solids’), which can aslo be accessed at the same link. Secondly, a section on commonplace books, the old name for what we now call notebooks, or as some have argued, blogs. This selection was inspired by hearing Anthony Grafton’s wonderful lecture on the Slought Foundation website, which is there available as an AAC file, and which I’ve also made available as an MP3.-Timothy —————————————- Leonardo’s Notebooks Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks | V&A Museum http://goodreads.ca/shorty/ac/forstercodices/ e-Leo | Biblioteca Leonardiana http://www.leonardodigitale.com/login.html // sign in (‘accedi’) with user: goodreads pass: goodreads and then click on `sfoglia i manoscritti` and the chose the notebook from the left hand menu (`Madrid I, Madrid II, and Atlantico) Commonplace Books Literary Honeycombs: Storage and Retrieval of Texts Before Modern Times | Anthony Grafton AAC file (from Slought Foundation) MP3 file (Goodreads Mirror) Commonplace | Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace “Commonplace books (or commonplaces) emerged in the 15th century with the availability of cheap paper for writing, mainly in England. They were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information into books. They were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator’s particular interests”. Long S | Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s The long, medial or descending s (Å¿) is a form of the minuscule letter ‘s’ formerly used where ‘s’ occurred in the middle or at the beginning of a word, for example Å¿infulneÅ¿s (“sinfulness”). The modern letterform was called the terminal or short s. From Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book Library Commonplace Books | Beinecke Rare Book Library http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/compb.htm Osbourne b205 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/Osbourne/ William Hill’s Commonplace Book | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/hill/ Sartaine most holsome meditations | Peter Mowie http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/sartain/ Johann Sigmund Kusser’s Commonplacebook http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/Kusser/ Tobias Alston’s CPB | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/alston/ Robert Herrick’s CPB | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/herrick/ Richard Cromleholm’s CPB | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/Cromleholm/ William Camden’s CPB | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/camden/ The Book of Brome | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/bookofbrome/ Manuscript Guide MS327 | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library http://goodreads.ca/shorty/yale/ms327/ —————————————- Long links made short by using Shorty (http://get-shorty.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com
05w19:1 Leonardo da Vinci Posted May 9th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 19 number 1 (Leonardo da Vinci) ——————————————————————— Breaking the Da Vinci code | Lisa Jardine http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,1360654,00.html “How many hundreds of thousands of words have been written since Vasari, trying to convey the extraordinary combination of talents and imaginative brio which made up the mind of this enigmatic man? While the exquisite drawings, diagrams, maps and engineering blueprints, and the handful of achieved paintings have consistently fascinated all who have seen them, the man himself continues to elude us. Leonardo himself would probably have regarded all those words spent on him as a mistake from the outset. Words are a poor resource for capturing complexity, according to Leonardo.” Biography Reviews: Leonardo da Vinci … | Lucy Hughes-Hallett http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1285750,00.html “Nicholl, who lives in Italy, conjures up in meticulous detail the physical reality of Renaissance Florence and Milan. He re-creates the din and flurry of building works that characterise Florence in its expansionist prime. He itemises the minerals used in paint manufacture and deduces from the widespread use of egg white in tempera that artists? studios must have been full of hens.” A Work in Progress | Melinda Henneberge http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?art_id=1240 “David Alan Brown, the longtime curator of Italian Renaissance painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., says he has lost patience with new theories that are not rooted in the visual record. Of the Mona Lisa, for instance, he notes that ‘everything has been said about that painting’?that it is a self-portrait, a mistress portrait, a male lover, a woman who had breast cancer or who was bereaved or pregnant or both. ‘I was amused by these things in the beginning,’ Brown says. ‘But now I find them tedious.'” Introduction to Leonardo and His Drawings | Carmen C. Bambach http://tinyurl.com/7tlxn From the Met show, January 2003 Old master’s mother was a slave, reveal Da Vinci researchers | Burhan Wazir http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,810926,00.html “Vezzosi said Caterina’s Middle Eastern heritage was a primary influence on Leonardo’s work as an artist, mathematician and philosopher. ‘There is some evidence that in his later years Da Vinci was increasingly becoming interested in the Middle East,’ said Vezzosi.”Article Date: 13 October 2002 —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Monday 09 May 2005 @ 5:09 PM
