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标题：Codex Seraphinianus. - book reviews
作者：Stewart Brand
期刊名称：Whole Earth: access to tools, ideas, and practices
印刷版ISSN：1097-5268
出版年度：1989
卷号：Fall 1989
出版社：Point Foundation

Codex Seraphinianus. - book reviews

Stewart Brand

Codex Seraphinianus

Simply the most extraordinary combination of wit, beauty, and untrammelled ingenuity in print. Hundreds of pages of fey, meticulous colored drawings by one "Franco Maria Ricci" (whose name appears only once in tiny print with the 1981 copyright notice), all explained in detail in an incomprehensible, but elegant, cursive text. There is a universe in this book, a satire on our own, no corner of which will look the same after exposure to Ricci's. The book invites repeated study and rewards it -- the more you look, the more there is. I know professional inventors who use the volume as a constantly renewable well of inspiration.