Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France

https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/

A Digital Critical Edition of BnF Ms. Fr. 640, a unique manuscript composed in 1580s Toulouse. It offers firsthand insight into making and materials from a time when artists were scientists.

The Making and Knowing Project, founded in 2014 by Pamela H. Smith, and involving hundreds of collaborators, is a research and pedagogical initiative in the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.

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