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Third Part of the Ethics on the Origins and Nature of the Affects
To the Most Serene Great Prince of Etruria, Hero and Admirable Man, Cosmo the Third
To the Most Serene Great Prince.
In this era of ours, Most Serene Great Prince, when the various branches of…
In this seventeenth-century map, Jerusalem is depicted as a fairly dense city within a wall, with only a few structures outside. Men in Arab dress stand in small groups conversing with one another in…
The first Jewish community was established in Kingston, Jamaica by refugees from Spain and Portugal after 1492. This tombstone in the cemetery of She‘are Shalom Synagogue marks the grave of Abraham…
This engraving by Willem Jacobsz Delff is based on an earlier portrait of scholar Joseph Solomon Delmedigo by Willem Cornelisz Duyster.
This is an image of the physician Abraham Zacutus, of Amsterdam. A physician and writer of medical works, Abraham Zacutus was born in Lisbon and later studied medicine in Coimbra and Salamanca, in…
This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Emanuel Colli by the University of Padua, Italy. Designed as a small, illuminated book, its four leaves are decorated with floral borders, and include…
This is the frontispiece to the first volume of Blasio Ugolino’s Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, a thirty-four-volume collection of Latin treatises on Jewish customs, laws, institutions, and sacred…
Book III: In which the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead are proved against the Sadducees. The causes of the miraculous resurrection are explained, and the final judgment and…