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Edward Tufte's Library Up For Auction

Posted by kdawson on from the galileo-meets-picasso dept.

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.

3 of 45 comments (clear)

  1. First Bid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I'll take 'em all. Do you take PayPal?

  2. I am corrupted... by VendettaMF · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally someone has created a genuine and effective reason for me to desire to be a millionaire...

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  3. For ICP by VendettaMF · · Score: 2, 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.

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