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Learning and scholarship

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Images about Learning and scholarship

41 images from works
  • 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.
  • Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
  • Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.
  • An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.
  • The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
  • Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
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Works from the collections

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

    Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984. Mots et les choses. English | Date: 1974
    • Books

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

    Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. Pseudodoxia epidemica | Date: 1981
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    The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

    Valentine Green | 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.

    Emil Reicke | Date: 1900
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    Medical thought in Ancient India and Greece : a comparative perspective on the relation between social structure and modes of medical reasoning / Volker Roelcke.

    Volker Roelcke | Date: 1991
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