With its whimsical and inviting cover illustrations, The Fairy-Land of Science, found at the Grolier Club’s exhibition of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection called Five Hundred Years of Women’s Work, reaches out to its intended audience of children by promising the kind of magic they’d find in a Brothers Grimm […]
Tess Russell-Grad
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The volvelle, with its name coming from the Latin volvere, “to turn”, is a chart made of concentric paper circles held together with a tie or pin in the middle. In more recent decades, this construction might be a toy cipher wheel where lining up letters in a particular way […]
