In Da Vinci's Ghost, critically acclaimed historian Toby Lester tells the story of the world’s most iconic image, the Vitruvian Man, and sheds surprising new light on the artistry and scholarship of Leonardo...

La course aux confins de la Terre et l’histoire épique de la carte qui donnera son nom à l’Amérique.En 2003, la Library of Congress de Washington achète pour la somme de dix millions de dollars la première...

“Old maps lead you to strange and unexpected places, and none does so more ineluctably than the subject of this book: the giant, beguiling Waldseemüller world map of 1507.” So begins this remarkable story...