[PDR] A Dangerous Mind in the Pantheon

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A DANGEROUS MIND IN THE PANTHEON

This October marks 300 years since the birth of French Enlightenment 
thinker Denis Diderot. Although perhaps best known for co-founding the 
/Encylopedié/, *Philipp Blom* argues for the importance of Diderot's 
philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the 
Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by his better remembered 
contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau.
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<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/02/a-dangerous-man-in-the-pantheon/>

Curator's Choice #4

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO PITT

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Jo Pugh, researcher at the UK National Archives, explores the newly 
digitised letters of former British Prime Minister William Pitt the 
Younger and his sister Hester, and how their contents shed an intimate 
light on one of the most politically influential families in British 
history.

Read More » 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/01/the-world-according-to-pitt/>

New Collection Items

    ÉMILE COHL’S FANTASMAGORIE (1908)

    9815742734_b9272d9b20_oAn animated film by French caricaturist,
    cartoonist and animator Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest
    examples of hand-drawn animation, and considered by many film
    historians to be the very first animated cartoon.Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/26/emile-cohls-fantasmagorie-1908/>

    COME TAKE A TRIP IN MY AIRSHIP (1904)

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    Rendition by Welsh-born baritone singer J. W. Myers of a song
    written and composed in 1904 by fellow countryman George "Honey Boy"
    Evans. The song would go on to be recorded, with slight variations,
    by a string of popular musicians including Jonny Cash and more
    recently Natalie Merchant. Read More »
    <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/25/come-take-a-trip-on-my-airship-1904/>

    ERNST HAECKEL'S RADIOLARIA (1862)

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Ernst Haeckel's exquisite renditions of microscopic zooplankton called 
Radiolaria:“protozoa of (diameter 0.1–0.2 mm) that produce intricate 
mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell 
into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm."Read More 
» <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/19/ernst-haeckels-radiolaria-1862/>

*ANIMATED GIFS: MAX FLEISCHER'S BUBBLES (1820)
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A series of animated GIFs excerpted by Okkult Motion Pictures from Max 
Fleischer’s Bubbles, part of his Out of the Inkwell series, which also 
includes The Tantalizing Fly. 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/31/the-belly-of-a-horse-1820/>Read More 
» 
<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/24/animated-gifs-fleischers-bubbles-1922/>

*BLACKBOARD SKETCHING (1909)
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A book by Massachusetts based artist and teacher Frederik Whitney 
(1858-1949) on the lost art of blackboard drawing. As the introduction 
states: “Ability to draw easily and well on the blackboard is a power 
which every teacher of children 
covets."<http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/31/the-belly-of-a-horse-1820/>Read 
More » <http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/17/blackboard-sketching-1909/>

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