by Janette LEFRANCQ. — Book in French. It was around 1648 that Jean Bonhomme (1619-1662), the youngest member of an emblematic family of glassmakers from Liège, undertook the first complete and faithful translation of Neri’s Arte Vetreria, published in Florence in 1612… (details)
by Marianne Michel. — Book in French. Throughout the chapters, the reader will discover arithmetic problems (the calculation of unknown quantities, the calculation of square roots, arithmetic progressions), geometry problems (area calculations, volume calculations and slope calculations), etc. This book has not only a scientific, but also an educational purpose… (Details).
by Thierry DE PUTTER and Christina KARLSHAUSEN. — Book in French. This practical guide is a must-have book for Egyptologists, art historians, and anyone wishing to identify the materials of Pharaonic architecture, sculpture, and jewelry… (Details)
by Philippe PATER. — In French. Based on archival sources inherent to Charles de Lorraine, this book will provide the reader with a substantial amount of exclusive information on his collections of watches and clocks, his machinists and turners, his physicists and naturalists, on the watchmakers who worked not only for the prince, but also for his sister Anne-Charlotte. This work is illustrated with many unpublished photos (details)
by Dr Bernard Lalanne and Gérard Métra . — Book in French. The Ebers Papyrus, the most comprehensive medical document of Ancient Egypt, is now published in full for the first time and shows the hieroglyphic transcription of each plate with its transliteration and translation… (Details)
Marie-Cécile Bruwier, Wouter Claes and Arnaud Quertinmont (dir.). — Book in French. For the first time, the lithographic plates Jean-Jacques Rifaud (1786-1852) dedicated to Egypt are being published in their entirety. He aims to publish, on his own, a ‘Voyage en Égypte, en Nubie et lieux circonvoisins’ (Travel in Egypt and Nubia and surrounding places) to complement the well-known ‘Description de l’Égypte’ written by the many scholars and scientists of the French expedition. As in the ‘Description de l’Égypte’, the plates are related to Egyptian antiquities, natural history (botany and zoology) and ethnography… (Details)