Dramatis personae

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His natural philosophy (Physics, De caelo) framed university learning from the 13th century to Galileo’s day.

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Aquinas’ commentary on his De trinitate asks whether there can be a science of divine things.

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His Didascalicon is a guide to reading and to the order of the arts.

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Reconciled Aristotle with Christian theology in commentaries and the Summa Theologiae.

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Issued the Condemnation of 1277.

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Printing with movable metal type; the Gutenberg Bible (c. 1455).

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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543).

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De historia stirpium (1542), the herbal whose woodcuts were drawn “from life”.

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De humani corporis fabrica (1543).

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Historiae animalium (1551–1558) and the Bibliotheca universalis.

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His Cruydeboeck (1554) reused many of Fuchs’ woodcuts; later court physician in Vienna and professor of medicine at Leiden.

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Printed the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568–1572).

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Encyclopaedic natural histories and a famous collection.

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Philip II’s general editor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible.

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Tried twice by the Inquisition for his cosmology; the subject of Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms.

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Sidereus Nuncius (1610), Dialogue (1632), tried by the Inquisition in 1633.

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Atlas Maior (1662–1665).

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The Mechanization of the World Picture (1950).

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The “Needham question”: why did modern science arise in Europe and not in China?

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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979); debated Adrian Johns in the AHR (2002).

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The Nature of the Book (1998); Eisenstein’s opponent in the print debate.