Revisiting the “Enlightenment Project,” Inspired by Anthony Pagden and Armed with Some Ngrams
James Schmidt, wordpress.comI turned in the last of my grades for the semester at the start of the week and was reminded, once again, that if April is the cruelest month, May — at least for academics — must be the kindest: a vast prospect for research, reading, and writing…
Transcribe | Edward Kidder cookbook, ca. 1700
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Robinson Crusoe: 1719, 1970, 2013
The Daniel Defoe Blog, danieldefoeblog.comApril 2013 and I’m thinking about Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, first published in April 1719 (it was entered on the Stationer’s Register on Ap …
Picturing science: inside a Georgian observatory
Rebekah Higgitt, guardian.co.ukTaking a closer look at an image that gets into the heart of the Earl of Macclesfield’s well-equipped observatory at Shirburn Castle
I only recently, and by accident came across this rather delightful 1778 mezzotint by James Watson among the…
“The Mechanical Turk” and Automata of the 18th Century | The 18th - Century Common
by Cassandra Nelson, 18thcenturycommon.orgIn a recent article for the BBC News, Adam Gopnik reflects on the persistent allure of the Turk, a chess-playing automaton that fascinated eighteenth-century spectators across Europe and Ame …
By Wayne Curtis, thesmartset.com
The Walking Tour
Pimp My Walk
Canes were the 22-inch rims of 19th century cruising culture.Now, here’s an interesting walking cane.
It was made in Holland sometime in the 19th century. It ha …
18th Century Trade cards – and my cup floweth over. » Georgian Gentleman
mikerendell.comThree delightful trade cards from the Wellcome Institute to remind us of trades which we might otherwise have forgotten about. First up, this beautiful card promoting the wares of William W …
Wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve and jacket front.
coffins, cooperhewitt.orgSarah D. CoffinSet of Eighteen Buttons with West Indian Scenes, c. 1795. Artist: Agostino Brunias, Italian active in England and Haiti 1730-1796, Dominica (Current Haiti/Santo Domingo). Gift of R. Keith Kane from the Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes…
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About 1610-1620, Prince Heinrich the Younger of Reuss, called Posthumus (b. 1572 - d. 1635), Gera, Germany; until 1945, by descent within the family and kept at Osterstein Castle, Ge …
