Rindert Jagersma

Book history Random scenes from seventeenth century books

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Updating an old friend in the city about his life, the grad student hears himself say the word “still” a disconcerting number of times.

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Someone looks a bit too happy while burning alive spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)

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spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)

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De spiegel, die niet vleyd (Le miroir qui ne flatte point) (Amsterdam, 1667)

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Nebvlo nebvlonvm (Frankfurt, 1620)

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Ulisse Aldrovandi, Puella pilosa annorum duodecim, Monstrorum Historia Bologna, Italy (1642)

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Happy Halloween

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Dapper. Amsterdam, 17c.

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Dapper. Amsterdam, 17c.

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Romeyn de Hooghe 1692

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‘First Day of Creation’ from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

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Yolande de Dreux, Queen of Scots - Medievalists.net

A brief look at Yolande de Dreux, Queen of Scots.

Susan Abernethy brings us back to medieval Scotland once again to look at another Scottish Queen, Yolande de Dreux…

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[hecticmoon]

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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GUEST POST: John Martin Rare Book Room, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences

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!

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Read more about this on Heirs of Hippocrates.

- Caroline

[deathandmysticism]

Hans Burgkmair, Wound Man, 16th century

[ducissatenebrarum]

Hans Burgkmair, The Ex-Husband, 16th century

[speciesbarocus]

Sébastien Leclerc - Traité de geometrie (1790). [x]

[misanthropicmessiah]

Life and Death Contrasted (ca.1770), -or- An Essay on Woman

What is your life? Ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.

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