92 results filtered with: Learning and scholarship
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A quadrangle designed for St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1746.
Vertue, George, 1684-1756.Date: 1746Reference: 23603iPart of: Oxford almanacks- Journals
The history of the works of the learned, or, An impartial account of books lately printed in all parts of Europe.
Date: 1699-1711- Pictures
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Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
Floris, Frans, 1519 or 1520-1570.Date: 1565Reference: 25650i- Books
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Report, 1949-1951.
Canada. Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences.Date: 1951- Books
Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, darinne die Gelehrten aller Stände sowohl männ-als weiblichen Geschlechts, jetzige welche vom Anfange der Welt bis auf jetzige Zeit gelebt, und sich der gelegrten Welt bekannt gemacht, nach ihrer Geburt, Leben, merckwürdigen Geschichten, Absterben und Schrifften aus den glaubwürdigsten Scribenten in alphabetischer Ordnung beschrieben werden / Hrsg. von Christian Gottlieb Jöcher.
Jöcher, Christian Gottlieb, 1694-1758.Date: 1750-1751- Books
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Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton.
Wotton, William, 1666-1727.Date: 1697- Pictures
A scholar-alchemist pores over a book, searching for inspiration. Etching by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 35974i- Pictures
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A physiognomist whose body is entirely made up of faces, sitting at a table diagnosing people's physiognomic characteristics with the help of a book. Coloured lithograph by G.E. Madeley after G. Spratt, 1831.
Spratt, G., active 1830-31.Date: 1831Reference: 35150i- Books
Die Eitelkeit und Unsicherheit der Wissenschaften und die Verteidigungsschrift / herausgegeben von Fritz Mauthner.
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486-1535.Date: 1913- Pictures
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A scholar's study. Etching by C.W. Sherborn, 1890.
Sherborn, Charles William, 1831-1912.Date: 1890Reference: 652658i- Pictures
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The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.
Weerdt, Adriaan de, 1510-1590.Reference: 21696i- Books
On discovery / Polydore Vergil ; edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver.
Vergil, Polydore, 1470?-1555.Date: 2002- Books
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Reflections upon ancient and modern learning. To which is now added a defense thereof, in answer to the objections of Sir W. Temple, and others. With observations upon the Tale of a Tub. [B]y William Wotton, B.D. Also, a dissertation upon the epistles of Themistocles, Socrates, Euripides, &c. and the Fables of Aesop. By R. Bentley, D.D.
Wotton, William, 1666-1727.Date: MDCCV. [1705]- 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]- Pictures
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A woman on a throne in a classroom; representing grammar. Etching by C. Schut.
Schut, Cornelis, 1597-1655.Reference: 25793iPart of: Septem artes liberales- Books
Traité de l'incertitude des sciences / traduit de l'anglois [by N. Berger, from 'Reflections upon learning'].
Baker, Thomas, 1656-1740.Date: 1714- Books
The Pandit : traditional scholarship in India / edited by Axil Michaels.
Date: 2001- Pictures
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.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 35507i- Books
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman conquest / collected and edited by Thomas Oswald Cockayne ; with a new introduction by Charles Singer.
Date: 1961- Pictures
Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.
Du Guernier, Louis, 1677-1716.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 25978i- Books
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The life of learning : the Charles Homer Haskins lectures of the American Council of Learned Societies / edited by Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz ; with the assistance of Candace Frede.
Date: 1994- Pictures
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Roger Bacon conducting an alchemical experiment in a vaulted cloister. Etching by J. Nasmyth, 1845.
Nasmyth, James, 1808-1890.Date: 1845Reference: 37839i- Pictures
A depressed scholar surrounded by mythological figures; representing the melancholy temperament. Etching by J.D. Nessenthaler, ca. 1750.
Nessenthaler, Johann David, 1717?-1766.Reference: 26893i- Pictures
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Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
Fetti, Domenico, approximately 1589-1623.Reference: 20080i- Books
History of classical scholarship from 1300 to 1850 / Rudolf Pfeiffer.
Pfeiffer, Rudolf, 1889-1979.Date: 1976