Posts tagged with technology

  1. The eminently capable Mr Brown: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and his magnificent tree moving machine

    The Rare Books Collection contains vestiges of many intriguing characters from the worlds of history, science and literature.  Amongst the colourful cast can be included the …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/09/08/the-eminently-capable-mr-brown-lancelot-capability-brown-and-his-magnificent-tree-moving-machine

  2. Mirror mirror on the wall, whose was the most influential encyclopaedia of them all: the story of Diderot’s radical Encylopédie of sciences, arts and technical crafts

    The heroic task of bringing together and documenting the vast canon of human knowledge in written form, has been accomplished by a select number of individuals …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/08/11/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whose-was-the-most-influential-encyclopaedia-of-them-all-the-story-of-diderots-radical-encylopedie-of-sciences-arts-and-technical-crafts