[Public Domain Review] The Polyglot of Bologna

Tue Jun 26 14:17:15 UTC 2012

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  THE POLYGLOT OF BOLOGNA

*Michael Erard takes a look at /The Life of Cardinal Mezzofanti/, a book 
exploring the extraordinary talent of the 19th century Italian cardinal 
who was reported to be able to speak over seventy languages.*
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/26/the-polyglot-of-bologna/>

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    NOVUM INSTRUMENTUM GEOMETRICUM (1607)

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Illustrations from Leonhard Zubler’s Novum Instrumentum Geometricum 
(1607). Zubler was a Swiss goldsmith and instrument maker who is 
credited with introducing the use of the plane table into modern 
surveying. This book demonstrates the use of his instruments in 
techniques of triangulation, particularly in the context of warfare. 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/22/novum-instrumentum-geometricum-1607/>

    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/05/27/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes-collected-into-englishe-metre-1584/>

        THE FIRST SIX BOOKS OF THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID (1847)

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    Stunning version of ‘Euclid’s Elements’ using coloured graphic
    explanations of each geometric principle. The book has become the
    subject of renewed interest in recent years for its innovative
    graphic conception and its style which prefigures the modernist
    experiments of the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/21/the-first-six-books-of-the-elements-of-euclid-1847/>

    LAMBETH WALK – NAZI STYLE (1942)

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In 1942, Charles A. Ridley of the British Ministry of Information made a 
short propaganda film, “Lambeth Walk – Nazi Style”, which edited footage 
of Hitler and German soldiers from Leni Riefenstahl’s classic Triumph of 
the Will to make it appear as if they were marching and dancing to the 
song “The Lambeth Walk”. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/20/lambeth-walk-nazi-style-1942/>

    CORRECT POSTURES FOR HOUSEWORK (1920S)

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Series of photographs taken of Miss Ruth Kellogg demonstrating correct 
postures for various forms of housework. Photos taken by Troy for 
Delineator magazine. No date given, but Miss Kellogg was at Cornell 1921-26.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/18/correct-postures-for-housework-1920s/>

    THE ILLUMINATED SKETCHBOOK OF STEPHAN SCHRIBER (1494)

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Selected pages from the Spätgotisches Musterbuch des Stephan Schriber, a 
manuscript which appears to be some kind of sketchbook, belonging to a 
15th century monk working in South-West Germany, where ideas and layouts 
for illuminated manuscripts were tried out and skills developed. Read 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/15/the-illuminated-sketchbook-of-stephan-schriber-1494/>

    JAMES JOYCE READING HIS WORK (1924/1929)

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Joyce reading form the "Aeolus" episode of Ulysses in 1924, and from the 
"Anna Livia Plurabelle" section from Finnegans Wake in 1929.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/15/james-joyce-reading-his-work-19241929/>

    PARADISE FOUND: THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE (1885)

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A book by William Fairfield, the first president of Boston University, 
placing Atlantis at the North Pole, as well as the Garden of Eden, Mount 
Meru, Avalon and Hyperborea. Warren believed all these mythical lands 
were folk memories of a former inhabited far northern seat where man was 
originally created. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/14/paradise-found-the-cradle-of-the-human-race-at-the-north-pole-1885/>

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