92 results filtered with: Learning and scholarship
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An old man discourses with a woman with a bird on her head; representing dialectic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
Floris, Frans, 1519 or 1520-1570.Date: 1565Reference: 25651i- Pictures
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A woman personifying anatomy looks searchingly into the light emanating from a corpse, but she is mortally threatened by the scythe of Time; representing anatomy's struggle with decay. Engraving by N-G. Dupuis, 1759, after J-B-M. Pierre.
Pierre, Jean-Baptiste Marie, 1714-1789.Date: 1759Reference: 26007i- Books
De verdiensten der hollandsche geleerden ten opzichte van Harvey's leer van den Bloedsomloop / Door A.H. Israëls ... en C.E. Daniëls.
Israëls, Abraham Hartog, 1822-1883.Date: 1883- Books
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Mental dynamics or groundwork of a professional education : the Hunterian oration before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 15th February, 1847 / by Joseph Henry Green.
Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.Date: 1847- Pictures
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An alchemist concentrates on a book in his study, while Death next to him tells him "My dear Herr Collaborator, you are are too hardworking". Gouache painting.
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Alfarabi : Risālat fī ʻl-ʻaql / Texte arabe intégral en partie inédit établi par Maurice Bouyges.
Fārābī.Date: 1999- Pictures
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The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
Reference: 23977i- Pictures
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King Louis XIV is crowned with a garland while the 'Dictionaire de l'academie françoise' is celebrated with flowers by three women aided by genii. Engraving by J. Mariette and G. Edelinck, 1694, after J.B. Corneille.
Corneille, Jean-Baptiste, 1649-1695.Date: 1694Reference: 26172i- Books
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An address to the senior class in Yale-College: delivered in the chapel, as a response to the valedictory oration, which closed the public performances exhibited by the class after their examination, July 20, 1796. By Josiah Stebbins, Esquire, a tutor of the college. Printed at the desire of the students. [Two lines of verse]
Stebbins, Josiah, 1766-1829.Date: [1796]- Books
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Dr. Bentley's Dissertations on the epistles of Phalaris, and the fables of Æsop, examin'd: by the Honourable Charles Boyle, Esq;
Orrery, Charles Boyle, Earl of, 1676-1731.Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Pre-reformation scholars in Scotland in the XVIth century : their writings and their public services with a bibliography and a list of graduates from 1500 to 1560 / by W. Forbes Leith.
Forbes-Leith, William, 1833-1921.Date: 1915- Pictures
A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 20093i- Pictures
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Putti study the plants in a botanical garden; representing botany. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1729Reference: 25662i- Pictures
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Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 25992i- Pictures
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A scholar pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 46343i- Books
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A voyage to England : containing many things relating to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that kingdom / by Mons. Sorbière. As also, Observations on the same voyage, by Dr. Thomas Sprat ... Lord Bishop of Rochester. With a letter of Monsieur Sorbière's, concerning the war between England and Holland in 1652: to all which is prefix'd his life, writ by M. Graverol. Done into English from the French original.
Sorbière, Samuel, 1615-1670.Date: 1709- Pictures
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A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
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The Organization of knowledge in modern America, 1860-1920 / edited by Alexandra Oleson and John Voss.
Date: [1979], ©1979- Books
Henrie Cornelius Agrippa, of the vanitie and vncertaintie of artes and sciences / Englished by Ja[mes] San[dford] Gent.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: 1575- Books
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Mental dynamics, or, Groundwork of a professional education : the Hunterian oration before the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 15th February, 1847 / by Joseph Henry Green.
Green, Joseph Henry, 1791-1863.Date: 1847- Pictures
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A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.Date: 1591Reference: 26097i- Books
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An essay upon study. Wherein directions are given for the due conduct thereof, and the collection of a library, proper for the Purpose, consisting of the Choicest Books in all the several Parts of learning. By John Clarke, Master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull.
Clarke, John, 1687-1734.Date: 1731- Pictures
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The angel, announcing the birth of Christ, comes with a sceptre to the Virgin. Tinted lithograph by N.J. Strixner, 1821, after School of Meister Wilhelm.
Wilhelm, Meister, of Cologne, active 1360.Date: 1821Reference: 23976i- Books
History of classical scholarship from the beginnings to the end of the Hellenistic age / [Rudolf Pfeiffer].
Pfeiffer, Rudolf, 1889-1979.Date: 1968- Pictures
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The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.
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