Volvelles: Movable Book Machines! | Bite Sized Book History

Do the biblio-twist with volvelles, the movable in-book calculating machines! In this episode, we discuss the history of these circular tools, and also find out that these spinners are not just a thing of the past... cue Led Zeppelin guitar riff

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Further Reading:
KARR, SUZANNE. “CONSTRUCTIONS BOTH SACRED AND PROFANE: SERPENTS, ANGELS, AND POINTING FINGERS IN RENAISSANCE BOOKS WITH MOVING PARTS.” The Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 78, no. 3/4, 2004, pp. 101–127. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40859568.
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Theme song: "Begniet" by Blue Dot Sessions https://www.sessions.blue/

Books in the intro/outro belong to Smithsonian Libraries.

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