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The Reading Room
A cabinet of curiosities for books that help us observe, design and understand the world.
NOTES FROM THE SHELF — 01 / 03
Read the world
more closely.
Three works from the ancient world, each an invitation to look again: at living things, at the spaces we make, and at the knowledge we choose to preserve.
El Bestiario de Diosórides
Plants, remedies and the long life of practical knowledge about the natural world.
Open the note ↗Los libros de Vitruvio
Architecture as a balance of knowledge, construction and the needs of human life.
Open the note ↗Historia Natural de Plinio El Viejo
An ambitious attempt to gather what the Roman world knew—and what it still wondered about.
Open the note ↗Reading notes, not definitive editions: a place for questions, context and ideas worth carrying forward.
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