Lia Markey and Suzanne Karr Schmidt

Friday, November 20, 2020, 8:00 pm EST
Online Event

In this tour of Renaissance Invention—live from the Newberry's exhibition galleries—curators Lia Markey and Suzanne Karr Schmidt will showcase the cutting-edge tech of 16th-century Europe.

 

You’ll learn how innovations like the printing press and the mechanical clock altered the course of history.

 

This new technology was immortalized in the “Nova Reperta,” a set of engravings that went viral in the Renaissance. Today, the “Nova Reperta” is a window into how technological advances crept into people’s lives and changed them forever.

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Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri. 1555 second edition, with manuscript notes and corrections in the author's hand.

Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri. 1555 second edition, with manuscript notes and corrections in the author's hand. Image courtesy of the University of Toronto.