“If a sixteenth-century European author, printer, or publisher wanted to include pictures in a book, they had several options…”

So begins today’s story from Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen.

For further reading and viewing:
Chen, Jessie Wei-Hsuan. “A Woodblock’s Career: Transferring Visual Botanical Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries.” Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science 35 (2020): 20–63.

The Plantin-Moretus Museum collection of woodcuts 

Episode transcript:
https://skymichaeljohnston.com/90secnarratives/