The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind / A.C. Grayling.

Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print / edited by Andrew Pettegree.

What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.

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The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind / A.C. Grayling.

Broadsheets : single-sheet publishing in the first age of print / edited by Andrew Pettegree.

What Galileo saw : imagining the scientific revolution / Lawrence Lipking.