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Double Vision: Thomas Hobbes’ Eye in “A Minute or First Draft of the Optiques” (BL Harley MS 3360)

NB: I just discovered this image so this post will be brief and very tentative. I hope to follow it up with more extensive research soon and will post a more expansive discussion of this image at a later time. Last week, while I was working on revising a post on vision in Hobbes’ Leviathan […]

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Posted in Early Modern Senses, Scholarship, Philosophical Skepticism, Shaping Sense, Tangents Tagged manuscripts, Leviathan, paramaterial, Short Tract of First Principles, vesalius, vision, Thomas Hobbes, British Library MS 3360, "A Minute or First Draft on the Optiques", history of science, ocular anatomy, history of the senses, the eye, Kepler, history of vision 3 Comments

My Medieval Grumpy Cat meme made it into a Dutch newspaper!

Since I’m in the process of tweaking the new site and format as well as finalizing revisions on two new posts, I thought I would take a break to share that one of my Medieval Grumpy Cat memes found its way into a Dutch newspaper. I am also happy to report that Emir O. Filipović has […]

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Posted in Satire, Silly Things Tagged manuscripts, medieval, Emir Filipovic, Erik Kwakkel, Grumpy Cat 1 Comment

Grumpy Cat Responds to the Medieval Cat-Print Manuscript

-For an update on this post and for links to information about the person who took the original manuscript photo, see this post.   Erik Kwakkel recently popularized an image of a medieval manuscript discovered by Emir O. Filipovic of the University of Sarajevo’s History Department. The manuscript contained the paw-prints of a medieval cat, […]

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Posted in Satire, Silly Things Tagged Erik Kwakkel, Grumpy Cat, manuscripts, medieval 19 Comments

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