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Jan 10, 2022 Book of the Week — Polygraphice…

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"Polygraphice is an art, so much imitating Nature, as that by proportional lines with answerable Colours, it teacheth to represent to the life (and that in plano) the forms of all corporeal things, with their respective passions." Polygraphice; or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting,...

Mar 30, 2017 On Jon’s Desk: The Generall Historie of the Turkes, a beautiful book linking the past and the present

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“What small assurance there is in mens affaires, and how subject unto change even those things are wherein we for the most part repose our greatest felicitie and blisse, (beside that the whole course of mans fraile life, by many notable examples well declareth) nothing...