The Magnalia Christi Americana reminds us that America’s story was never simple. Seventeenth-century New England was already negotiating diversity and inclusion
The History of the Royal-Society of London 1667. The natural history of animals 1702 The natural history of Northampton-Shire. The Natural History of Oxford-Shire A Philosophical Language by John Wilkins The natural history of Stafford-shire 1686 The natural history of... Continue Reading →
983J Robert Plot (1640-1696.) The natural history of Stafford-shire. By Robert Plot. LLD. keeper of the Ashmolean Musæum and professor of chymistry in the University of Oxford· Oxford : printed at the Theater, anno M.DC.LXXXVI. [1686] SOLD Folio 35x22.5cm. Signatures: π²... Continue Reading →
Three and a half centuries before artificial intelligence renewed the problem of representing human knowledge in formal systems, Wilkins attempted something audaciously similar in ambition: to classify the world, assign its concepts determinate relationships, and construct a language capable of expressing that structure without the ambiguities of ordinary speech.
1499-1515 Pre Reformation collection on updating the mass. 5 part Sammelband 537Ji-v This volume is Sammelbandof five printed books. Four from the early sixteenth century and one printed in the late fifteenth. Basel, Mainz, Oppenheim, Speyer, Straßburg, 1499-1515. Price $ 9,500... Continue Reading →
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526J. Paulus Orosius Pauli Orosii Viri Doctissimi Historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum; Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII. Venedig: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 12.oct.1500 price SOLD Folio 30 x 20 cm. Signatures: a-m⁶ n⁸ (a1 blank and present). Capital spaces with guide letters with capitals supplied... Continue Reading →
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