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Multilingual Exemplar Leaf
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This sheet by the calligrapher and scribe Iehudah Machabeu presents samples of different “lettering,” including Hebrew (at the top), Arabic, Greek, Castilian, English, French, Italian, and Latin. It…

Contributor:

Iehudah Machabeu

Places:

La Rochelle, France

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Scribes, Education, Scholarship

Categories:

Language & Linguistics, Lists & Catalogues, Visual & Material Culture
Decorative page of birds, flowers, and rectangular sections of different scripts.
Harvey Demonstrating the Circulation of the Blood to Charles I
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…

Contributor:

Benjamin-Eugène Fichel

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1850

Subjects:

Medicine, Profession, Scholarship, Modernity, Body image

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting of well-dressed man in hat with plume and sword putting his hand on the chest of a nude man tied down prone on a table with face upturned and mouth open, as several well-dressed men look on from the far side of the table.