Tag Archives: Printmaking

1592: More Books on Books

Posted on August 11, 2020 by

All I can say is that you can feel from experience that so many interpretations dissipate the truth and break it up. Aristotle wrote to be understood: if he could not manage it, still less will a less able man … Continue reading →

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1802: The Eagle

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William Blake: Headpiece to “The Eagle,” an illustration for William Hayley’s Ballads Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals (1802).

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370 BC: Numberless Democrituses Like Himself

Posted on January 26, 2020 by

The pre-Socratic philosopher Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) believed in an infinite universe, and therefore in an infinite number of worlds. Some might be bigger or smaller than earth, he concluded; some might have more moons or suns, … Continue reading →

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1922: Seek the Kingdom of Heaven through Contempt of the World

Posted on December 21, 2019 by

Melchior Lechter’s frontispiece, title page, and first chapter title page for a 1922 edition of Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ. Written in the early 15th century, the work promotes piety, simplicity, and devotion as the key to a personal … Continue reading →

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1655: Remedies

Posted on December 16, 2019 by

Selections from Thomas Lupton’s book A Thousand Notable Things on Various Subjects: Disclosed from the Secrets of Nature and Art, Practicable, Profitable, and of Great Advantage: Set Down from Long and Curious Study and Experience (1655): The Soles of the … Continue reading →

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1750: Estimate

Posted on December 9, 2019 by

In 1750, astronomer Thomas Wright estimated the number of inhabited planets in the observable universe: Of…habitable Worlds, such as the Earth, all which we may suppose to be also of a terrestrial or terraqueous Nature, and filled with Beings of … Continue reading →

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1899: The Fools

Posted on October 3, 2019 by

František Kupka: Les Fous (1899)

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1918: Young Crow

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Jan Mankes: Jonge kraai (1918)

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1865: The Storm Cloud

Posted on September 8, 2019 by

Félix Bracquemond: The Storm Cloud (1860-1870)

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1792: Name Your Weapons

Posted on September 7, 2019 by

One afternoon in 1792, Lady Almeria Braddock and a certain Mrs. Elphinstone were having tea when the following exchange occurred: Mrs Elphinstone: “You have been a very beautiful woman.” Lady Almeria: “Have been? What do you mean by ‘have been’?” … Continue reading →

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