Book Use Book Theory:1500 - 1700
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  • Introduction

  • Section 1: Technologies of Use
  • Making Books, Using Books
  • Marking Books
  • Size
  • Title
  • Plate
  • Layout
  • Book

  • Section 2: Parts and Wholes: From Matter to Method
  • Bookends: Preface and Errata
  • Index
  • Diagram
  • Commonplace Thinking
  • Case Thinking

  • Section 3: The How-to Book
  • How to Express Yourself
  • How to Do Things
  • How to Be Somebody
  • How to Look After Yourself
  • How to Find Your Way

  • Section 4: Dimensional Thinking
  • Measuring Space
  • Coordinating Time
  • Toward Another Dimension
  • Representing the Unseen
  • Place, Time, Memory

  • Section 5: Taking Liberties
  • Collective Authority and the Encyclopedia
  • Use and Abuse: Anatomy and Pornography

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  • About this Exhibit
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Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700. Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio.
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