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What did books look like in the 1650's?
🕑 Added 2018-06-28 15:05:13 +0000 UTC My Necronomicon has a publishing date of 1648. Here is a real tome from around the same time, and with many similar features! This book ran 1,000 pages, featured woodcuts instead of engravings and had densely packed text and marginal notes.I am excited to share this with the group as it really demonstrates what I'm trying to achieve here. Of course mine will have a lot more formulae and mystical symbols!
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Christian Matzke
I am dying laughing!
John Fleming
Topsell also has a simple index (at the front) and a table of contents (at the back). It feels like a cutting edge 17th-century science text. Being Canadian, I immediately looked up the entry for the beaver. I am gladdened to note that Topsell debunks the ancient belief that a beaver bites off its own testicles and offers them to hunters!
Christian Matzke
Page numbering was an innovation that hadn't quite caught on with all the publishers, but the use of keywords seems pretty common at that point. It is an unusual looking characteristic of these books (to my modern eyes at least) that I was happy to maintain.
