This contribution reconstructs the history of volvelle in movable books; books created for a wide range of different purposes (teaching, mnemonics, play, divining, etc.) including mechanical or paratextual devices demanding or soliciting the interaction of the reader. The investigation runs from hand-written books, considering some specific editorial genres, including calendars, books of fate, anatomical flap books, navigation handbooks etc.
Volvelles of knowledge. Origin and development of an instrument of scientific imagination (13th-17th centuries) / Crupi, Giovanni Francesco. - In: JLIS.IT. - ISSN 2038-1026. - 10:2(2019), pp. 1-27. [10.4403/jlis.it-12534]
Volvelles of knowledge. Origin and development of an instrument of scientific imagination (13th-17th centuries)
Crupi Giovanni Francesco
2019
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This contribution reconstructs the history of volvelle in movable books; books created for a wide range of different purposes (teaching, mnemonics, play, divining, etc.) including mechanical or paratextual devices demanding or soliciting the interaction of the reader. The investigation runs from hand-written books, considering some specific editorial genres, including calendars, books of fate, anatomical flap books, navigation handbooks etc.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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