On Discovery by Polydore Vergil
A Renaissance humanist compendium that traces the origins and first inventors of the arts, sciences, and institutions, synthesizing classical learning and contemporary reports to explain how customs, technologies, and beliefs came to be. Organized by topic, it catalogs notable “firsts”—from letters and laws to warfare, navigation, and printing—while weighing legendary accounts against critical inquiry. The result is both a wide-ranging reference and an early exercise in evidence-based historiography that influenced later histories of inventions and ideas.
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- 1499
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- Italian
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- Latin
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- De inventoribus rerum
- De rerum inventoribus
- On the Inventors of Things
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