1. The Invention of Printing and the New Literacy What People Said About Books in 1498 Drunk on Ink Johann Gutenberg Ready for an Invention Printed Music Printer's Marks An Armor of Commentary A Wittenburg Bible William Caxton Menocchio's Books Paracelsus and Oporinus Vesalius's Woodblocks
	2. Natural Philosophy (Science) and Mathematics The Pendulum and Experimental Science Vocabulary of Science Age of the Marvelous Albrecht Dürer In Which Europe Quantifies Double-Entry Bookkeeping John Dee Dee, Jones, and Magic 007 Robert Fludd The Age of the Earth: Alchemy Steam and Alchemy Natural Magic Chemical Analysis and Medicine William Gilbert Nicolaus Steno Light and Experience Galileo's Experiment Artists and the Moon Sun Spots Topsell's Beasts Sixteenth-Century Pneumatics Beyder Artzeney: Two Doctors Paracelsus In Vacuo Scientific Instruments Old Galileo Hroswitha

	3. Medicine and Anatomy Medicine and New France Ambroise Paré Paré's Monsters Andreas Vesalius Vesalius's Woodblocks Medicine in New Spain Art and Dissection Leonardo, Anatomist Leonardo and Embryos Leonardo and Leda Michael Servitus Shakespeare and Medicine Medicine in New Spain Medicine and New France Chemical Analysis and Medicine Barber Pole
	4. Architecture Two Kinds of Structural Design A New Architectural Eye Stereotomy The Leaning Tower of Pisa St. Paul's Cathedral Moving an Obelisk Dee, Jones, and Magic

	5. Other Technology Wiers in the Turriano Codex A Car for Anne Boleyn The Pendulum Clock A Metaphor Collapses Spectacles Parachutes Ceredi's Pump The Hoovers and Agricola Moving an Obelisk Guns Go to Sea The Hourglass Guido da Vigevano The Last Galleys The Ironclad Turtle
	6. Art, Music, and Theater Learning What Makes Musical Tones Jan van Eyck Donatello in Time Trompe-L'Oeil Tricking the Eye Josquin des Prez Josquin and Error Printed Music Leonardo and Leda Light and Experience Artists and the Moon Macbeth Simple Gifts Shakespeare and Medicine Dee, Jones, and Magic
	7. Renaissance Culture and Attitudes Humanism and Feminism Medieval Timelessness A Metaphor Collapses Ricci's Memory Palace The Elizabethans Tobacco Machiavelli Furnishing the Mind Giordano Bruno

	8. Discovering, and Telling About, The New World > Abraham Ortelius: The First Atlas Amerigo Vespucci Age of the Marvelous Mercator's Maps Theodor De Bry Martin Frobisher Iron in America Medicine in New Spain Medicine and New France Creating a New Country

   

Each of these short readings includes source material. See also the sources listed in Pat Bozeman's ENGL 4330 course book, Special Collections Reading Room, 7th floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Page layout and design by Greg Johnson.

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