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Original  Digital Manuscripts in Archives

 

This link to the British Library is a good place to start

exploring some major issues and figures via original

manuscripts from the Renaissance.

 

Selected Manuscripts:

 

Leonardo Da Vinci's  Notebook.  Useful Insights into

Da Vinci's methodology, with many diagrams.

Johannes Kepler: Harmonices Mundi (published 1619).

William Shakespeare  Complete Plays (1623 edition)

 Andreas Vesalius   De Humani Corporis Fabrica

 (On the fabric of the human body), a groundbreaking work

of human anatomy published in 1543.

John Dee's Rare and General Memorials (1577)

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