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Learning and scholarship

Images

  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.
  • The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

    Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. | Date: 1974
    • Books

    Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

    Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. | Date: 1981
    • Pictures

    The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

    Green, Valentine, 1739-1813. | Date: 10 August 1769 | Reference: 26236i
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    Der Gelehrte in der deutschen Vergangenheit / Mit 130 Abbildungen und Beilagen nach den Originalen aus dem fünfzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhundert.

    Reicke, Emil, 1865-1950. | Date: 1900
    • Books

    Medical thought in Ancient India and Greece : a comparative perspective on the relation between social structure and modes of medical reasoning / Volker Roelcke.

    Roelcke, Volker, 1958- | Date: 1991
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