Rindert Jagersma

Updating an old friend in the city about his life, the grad student hears himself say the word “still” a disconcerting number of times.

Someone looks a bit too happy while burning alive spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)

spiegel der spaensche tyrannye (1620)

De spiegel, die niet vleyd (Le miroir qui ne flatte point) (Amsterdam, 1667)

Nebvlo nebvlonvm (Frankfurt, 1620)

Ulisse Aldrovandi, Puella pilosa annorum duodecim, Monstrorum Historia Bologna, Italy (1642)

Dapper. Amsterdam, 17c.

‘First Day of Creation’ from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Susan Abernethy brings us back to medieval Scotland once again to look at another Scottish Queen, Yolande de Dreux…

Sciathericum Seleniacum - ‘ The Selenic Shadowdial or the Process of the Lunation’ - “The spirals show the length of the Moon’s appearance in the sky, with its rising and setting. The scheme gives the Moon twenty-eight phases and the engraver, Pierre Miotte, has reversed the appearance of the waxing and waning moons for the northern hemisphere.” - Athanasius Kircher / Sacred Geometry

- Caroline

Hans Burgkmair, Wound Man, 16th century

Sébastien Leclerc - Traité de geometrie (1790). [x]

What is your life? Ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.