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Like Revolving Disks and #Volvelles which I spoke on recently, Moving Books are considered a forerunner of motion combined with story-telling, along with other optical toys, contributed significantly to pre cinema. #Meggendorfer #Revolvingdisks #popupbooks
1862
FATHER OF THE POP-UP BOOK
LOTHAR MEGGENDORFER (1847-1925)
The father of the pop-up book is generally thought of as Meggendorfer. He is credited with producing the Pop-Up book as we know it today, despite the fact that several forms of movable books existed before him. Perhaps Meggendorfer did it better.
Yesterday we commemorated Petrus Apianus. As we like the books of this influential German humanist, mathematician and astronomer a lot, we'd like to highlight another of his classics today: Cosmographia, edited and expanded by Gemma Frisius.
#rarebooks #cosmography #volvelles
Volvelles are spinning paper discs that can make mathematical and astronomical calculations. The invention came to Europe from the Arabic world circa the 11-12th centuries. #invention #Volvelles #astronomy #seryddiaeth #museum30
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Fun to spend the day with a book packed full of spinning #volvelles! Sebastian Münster's Organum Uranicum, 1536.
Nothing makes me happier than finding an edition adding #volvelles where the original only included engravings #histsci (from the English 1561 translation of Martin Cortés’ Breve tratado de la esfera y el arte de navegar).
What a great ‘in the library’ read! Movable Mayhem by @DrKarrSchmidt in the current issue of @finebooks - the moral of the story, “get thee to Chicago”
#mechanicalpaper #volvelles #flaps #popups
Our #ScienceWeek2022 work on #ApiansWheels is done, and we've made about 150 replicas this week! The owner of this book didn't quite follow the instructions correctly. The small creature should have been stuck to the back of the page instead of the scrap paper here! #Volvelles
It’s #scienceweek and what better way to celebrate than by spinning volvelles in our copy of Sturmy’s Mariner’s Magazine!
#Volvelles are concentric paper or parchment circles used in Medieval Europe to calculate the phases of the sun and moon throughout the year.
#TermThursday
@julietsperling There are many but : https://t.co/04sbB5ceu9 @GallicaBnF @laBnF (there is a facsimile by @TASCHEN) I was lucky enough to see it with my own eyes and reproductions can't do this gem any justice (and #volvelles 🤩)
Volvelles!! Yay! 🤩
My research on Peter Apian’s ‘Cosmographia’ and the paper moveable instruments included in this book ( #volvelles ) is on display at @TheJohnRylands in the Rylands Gallery. 💫✨
#Cosmographia #PrintHistory #RareBooks #MoveableBooks #PaperInstruments
1524
MOVING BOOKS, REVOLVING DISKS & VOLVELLES
In the 13th Century we see examples of #MovingBooks, #RevolvingDisks and #Volvelles allowing perspective and illusion & giving a sense of motion in story-telling.
The rod-wielding soldier on this #16C #sundial supports the string gnomon (which casts the shadow). Alongside #Zodiac signs are 2 #astrological #volvelles (wheel charts). One shows which planet rules each hour for every day of the week.
https://t.co/b0vDDNFhVk
#MuseumsTogether
#Volvelles!!! 😃
Volvelles via L'arte del navigare, 1568
Complete work digitized https://t.co/ztEyGUMYvF
The ‘Volvelle’ is probably most familiar to us as a scientific instrument and, specifically, as a device used in astronomical calculations however its use in entertainment i.e., ‘Moving Books’, ‘Revolving Disks’ & #Volvelles grew dramatically post 1524.
The first examples of movable books were from the 11th and 12th centuries. While the inventor of the first movable book is unknown, Ramon Llull of Majorca, a poet, employed revolving discs and volvelles in his writings to demonstrate his intricate beliefs.
1524
MOVING BOOKS, REVOLVING DISKS & VOLVELLES
In the 13th Century we see examples of #MovingBooks, #RevolvingDisks and #Volvelles allowing perspective and illusion & giving a sense of motion in story-telling.
And speaking of #volvelles--how small do they get in the 20th c? This is one (of five) from "Kodak Master Photoguide" (1956) 4"x 2.5" (@DrKarrSchmidt) #books
The ‘Volvelle’ is probably most familiar to us as a scientific instrument and, specifically, as a device used in astronomical calculations however its use in entertainment i.e., ‘Moving Books’, ‘Revolving Disks’ & #Volvelles grew dramatically post 1524.
1524
MOVING BOOKS, REVOLVING DISKS & VOLVELLES
In the 13th Century we see examples of #MovingBooks, #RevolvingDisks and #Volvelles allowing perspective and illusion & giving a sense of motion in story-telling.
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