Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction 45
px2 writes "I was poking around Christie's auction house after taking a look at the Apple 1 when I came across this: Beautiful Evidence: The Library of Edward Tufte. He's unloading everything from Galileo and Da Vinci firsts to a rotating Japanese astronomical text from 1801. I guess he didn't conjure his ideas on information design from thin air." Based on Christie's estimates, the collection of 29 artifacts could fetch in excess of two and a quarter million dollars.
First Bid (Score:0, Funny)
I am corrupted... (Score:3, Funny)
Finally someone has created a genuine and effective reason for me to desire to be a millionaire...
For ICP (Score:3, Funny)
>> RIDLEY, Mark (1560-1624). A Short Treatise of
>> Magneticall Bodies and Motions. London: Nicholas
>> Okes, 1613.
Translation :
Magneticall Bodies : How Theye doth Fornicating Function.