[Public Domain Review] Athanasius, Underground

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  ATHANASIUS, UNDERGROUND

*With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th century polymath 
Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the 
master of hundred arts”. John Glassie looks at one of Kircher’s great 
masterworks /Mundus Subterraneus/ and how it was inspired by a 
subterranean adventure Kircher himself made into the bowl of Vesuvius.*

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/11/01/athanasius-underground/>

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    THE CALAVERAS OF JOSÉ GUADALUPE POSADA

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José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913) was a Mexican cartoonist illustrator 
known for his satirical and politically acute calaveras. Deriving from 
the Spanish word for ‘skulls’, these calaveras were illustrations 
featuring skeletons which would, after Posada’s death, become closely 
associated with the mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, Day of the Dead. 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/11/02/the-calaveras-of-jose-guadalupe-posada/>



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        A WAKE IN HELL’S KITCHEN (1903)

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    Strange little short from the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co,
    housed at the Library of Congress. A corpse awakes from his coffin
    to wreak havoc when he drinks a glass of beer on the sly.

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    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/27/a-wake-in-hells-kitchen-1903/>



    ILLUMINATED VERSION OF LORD TENNYSON’S MORTE D’ARTHUR (1912)

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Alfred Lord Tennyson’s /Morte d’Arthur/: a retelling of the third, 
fourth and fifth chapters of the twenty-first book of Malory’s 
/Romance/ about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the 
Knights of the Round Table. Beautifully illumianted by Sangorski. Read 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/25/illuminated-version-of-lord-tennysons-morte-darthur-1912/>



    POSED PORTRAITS OF 19TH CENTURY BASEBALL STARS

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Selection of studio posed photographs from the New York Public Library’s 
Spalding Collection, a series of over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, 
caricatures, and printed illustrations donated in 1921 by early baseball 
player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding (whose name to this day 
is printed across every ball used in the National League). Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/24/posed-portraits-of-19th-century-baseball-stars/>


    COLOURED PLATES FROM ESSAI D’ANATOMIE (1745)

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Plates from “Essai d’Anatomie” produced by Gautier D’Agoty in 1745 in 
Paris, France – a remarkably detailed atlas of the head, neck, and 
shoulder areas of the human body with explanatory text in French. Read 
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/22/coloured-plates-from-essai-danatomie-1745/>



    RECITAL OF THE 23RD PSALM AND “HE LEADETH ME” (1919)

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The 23rd Psalm recited by Rev. William H. Morgan D.D. and followed by a 
rendition by the Calvary Choir of the hymn “He Leadeth Me”, originally 
written by Joseph Gilmore.

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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/19/recital-of-the-23rd-psalm-and-he-leadeth-me-1919/>


    THE PROPER ART OF WRITING (1655)

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a 17th century German book on calligraphy entitled The Proper Art of 
Writing: a compilation of all sorts of capital or initial letters of 
German, Latin and Italian fonts from different masters of the noble art 
of writing. Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/10/18/the-proper-art-of-writing-1655/>






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