Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569–1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A p
A completely offbeat guide to government and ruling bodies investigates the world's political systems and presents them to children in an appealing way; from the Roman Republic to modern democracies,
European and American scholars of history and literature explore how the two emotions were expressed during the early modern period. Their topics include the metaphorical collecting of curiosities in
Before Romantic genius, there was ingenuity. Early modern ingenuity defined every person—not just exceptional individuals—as having their own attributes and talents, stemming from an &ldqu
