Laura Moretti publishes 'Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present', October 2019

15 October 2019

Laura Moretti publishes Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present with Bodleian Library, October 2019. 

Through essays on some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers (Leonardo da Vinci, Euclid, Andreas Vesalius, William Hunter, Johannes Kepler, Andrea Palladio, Galileo Galilei, among many others), this book tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media. It features Leonardo da Vinci’s groundbreaking drawings in his notebooks and other manuscripts, extraordinary anatomical illustrations, early paper engineering including volvelles and tabs, beautiful architectural plans and even views of the moon.