frontispiece

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This research will be featured as a frontispiece in the upcoming issue of Advanced Materials and has secured both domestic and international patents.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2024

After all, even Martin Droeshout’s frontispiece portrait for the First Folio shows a face that looks, to some eyes, like a mask.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

The book's frontispiece is a sketch of two women who remind her that "even in the worst conditions, Black women have looked up at the night sky and wondered."

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2021

That book’s famous frontispiece, showing Wheatley putting quill pen to paper, finds an echo across the gallery, in a copy of “Prejudice Unveiled,” a 1907 poetry collection by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2020

The frontispiece of the English translation of the experiments of the Accademia del Cimento: Nature is shown turning her back on Aristotle and being introduced by the Accademia to the Royal Society.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton