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Book on the reign, personality and attributes of Henry VIII priced at $250
For those interested in Henry VIII, I recommend a book on his reign, personality and regalia. It costs $250: https://goo.gl/Tq7eTn
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A page from the "Uranometria", the first atlas of the starry heavens (1603), by the German lawyer Johann Bayer and the cartographer Alexander Mair
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The artist Ruth Mendel has made a book tunnel from an old German Bible
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A rhinoceros from the 1642 Gazophylacium Anglicanum and its etymology of the word daughter
A rhinoceros from the English dictionary of 1642, Gazophylacium Anglicanum, in which an anonymous author supplies the etymologies of words. It contains some curious conjectures: e.g., that daughter derives from dos (a dowry)
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Birthday of the 16th-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi and his works on monsters
Today is the birthday of the eminent sixteenth-century naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. At this rate we shall soon be learning the natural sciences exclusively from the textbooks of those years: with mermaids, memory of the womb and man-eating trees
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