by ronblumenfeld | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
For the past 64 springs, book dealers from around the world set up shop at the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair to exhibit their very best stuff. What kind of stuff? As the Book Fair informs us, “rare books, maps, illuminated manuscripts, fine bindings,...
by ronblumenfeld | Feb 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Photo: © 2024 Christie’s Images Limited. Copies of Andreas Vesalius’s revolutionary textbook of anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (“The Structure of the Human Body”), are scattered around the world in libraries and private collections. An intrepid team of Vesalius...
by ronblumenfeld | Jan 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thanks to a company called PicRights, International, I discovered I had an image problem. I didn’t go looking for PicRights, International – they came looking for me. PicRights, you see, “provides licensing compliance services to third-party content owners.”...
by ronblumenfeld | Aug 9, 2023 | Medical History, Uncategorized
2014 was a big year for Andreas Vesalius. It was the great anatomist’s 500th birthday – a great milestone if your name is still spoken after five centuries. Devoted Vesalius fans could not let that year pass without gathering on the Greek island of Zakynthos, where he...
by ronblumenfeld | Mar 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
The year 2022 marked the 800th anniversary of the founding of the University of Padua, one of the oldest universities in the world. The celebration included an exhibition done in conjunction with the Jewish Heritage Museum of Padua that offered a fascinating glimpse...
by ronblumenfeld | Dec 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Consumer products come and go. Some exist only for the few weeks before a holiday; others hang around for years, even decades. But others approach immortality, still going strong after a century or more in the marketplace. To name a few: Clorox (1913); Ex-Lax (1906);...
