Updating an old friend in the city about his life, the grad student hears himself say the word “still” a disconcerting number of times.
Someone looks a bit too happy while burning alive
spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)
spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)
De spiegel, die niet vleyd (Le miroir qui ne flatte point) (Amsterdam, 1667)
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Nebvlo nebvlonvm (Frankfurt, 1620)
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Puella pilosa annorum duodecim, Monstrorum Historia
Bologna, Italy
(1642)Happy Halloween
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Dapper. Amsterdam, 17c.
Dapper. Amsterdam, 17c.
Romeyn de Hooghe 1692
Yolande de Dreux, Queen of Scots - Medievalists.net
Susan Abernethy brings us back to medieval Scotland once again to look at another Scottish Queen, Yolande de Dreux…
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Sciathericum Seleniacum - ‘ The Selenic Shadowdial or the Process of the Lunation’ - “The spirals show the length of the Moon’s appearance in the sky, with its rising and setting. The scheme gives the Moon twenty-eight phases and the engraver, Pierre Miotte, has reversed the appearance of the waxing and waning moons for the northern hemisphere.” - Athanasius Kircher / Sacred Geometry
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Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch, 1504.
Margarita philosophica might be called the first modern encyclopedia. Its numerous illustrations include woodcuts of music, a large folding map of the Eurasian continent and parts of Africa, and astronomical, astrological, and zoological figures. Our copy is covered with a re-purposed piece of manuscript!
xAE3 .R4 1504
Read more about this on Heirs of Hippocrates.
- Caroline
Hans Burgkmair, Wound Man, 16th century
Hans Burgkmair, The Ex-Husband, 16th century
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