The Magellanic Diaries 8

Return Voyage

Giant sea-serpent attacking a ship off the coast of Norway on Olaus Magnus’s Carta marina of 1539, twenty years after Magellan’s expedition (1572 edition of the National Library of Sweden, shelfmark KoB 1 ab)

The last couple of months have been kind to me in increased readership and subscriptions (including paid – thank you!). Many readers, then, are unfamiliar with the social organization of planet Vitruvius and the history of its paid series. More detailed information is available from the central landing page, Home of Homo Vitruvius, but I thought today I’d highlight for free this information about the individual subscription series, which rotate.

The paid Homo Vitruvius subscription series are now four.

1.      Recs & Revs: my recommendations and reviews of a diverse array of findings from my perpetual research peregrinations around the world of knowledge and the world wide web. They range from film and television reviews to the British Library and the origins of writing to paleontol…