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Tag Archives: Books
1795: Zozozozozozozozozozozozo, zirrhading!
From Johann Matthäus Bechstein’s Gemeinnützige Naturgeschichte Deutschlands nach allen drey Reichen: ein Handbuch zur deutlichern und vollständigern Selbstbelehrung besonders für Forstmänner, Jugendlehrer und Oekonomen, volume 4 (1795): Twenty-four different strains or couplets may be reckoned in the song of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Birds, Books, David Hindley, Germany, Great Britain, Johann Matthäus Bechstein, Music
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12th Century: The Unknown Language
Saint Hildegard, a 12th century German Benedictine abbess, was a mystic, composer, and philosopher who wrote works on topics as diverse as theology, botany, and medicine. She began experiencing visions at the age of three, ultimately chronicling a lifetime of … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Century, Books, Christianity, Germany, Hildegard of Bingen, Language, Religion, Saints, Women
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1799: Nine Family Heads
In the late 18th century, a physician from northern Africa named Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim assembled this book of practices for dealing with physical, mental, and spiritual ailments. It also includes sections on secret alphabets, divination by sand, magic, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, Africa, Art, Books, Demons, Magic, Medicine, Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim
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1936: Then It Will Be Over
Here we are, alone again. It’s all so slow, so heavy, so sad … I’ll be old soon. Then at last it will be over. So many people have come into my room. They’ve talked. They haven’t said much. They’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930's, 2000's, 20th Century, 21st Century, Adam Stennett, Animals, Art, Books, Death, France, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Mammals, Medicine, Mice, Novels, Painting, USA, Writing
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12th Century: Monster
This illustration comes from a series of handscrolls telling the legends of the Shinto Kitano Tenjin Shrine, located in Kamakura, Japan. The shrine is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, a 9th century scholar, poet, and statesman who came to be … Continue reading
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Tagged 12th Century, 9th Century, Art, Books, Japan, Monsters, Religion, Shinto, Sugawara no Michizane
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1660: Theory
The 17th century Dutch minister Johan Picard spent several years in Drenthe, where he became interested in the ancient stone structures that could still be seen in the area. His research eventually led to the publication of his book A … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, Archaeology, Books, Giants, Johan Picard, Megaliths, Netherlands, Oddities
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1620: History of Rainbows
The 1620 edition of Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum contains a plan for a collective work containing all world knowledge “made to the scale of the universe”: For the world is not to be circumscribed within the narrow confines of the … Continue reading
