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Gravestone of Abraham Pereira d’Azevedo
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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…

Places:

Kingston, Great Britain (Kingston, Jamaica)

Date:

1722

Subjects:

Mourning, Economic life, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with Latin inscription on top half and illustration below of axe chopping tree in half, surrounded by English words around perimeter of stone.
Tractatus de intellectus emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect)
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…

Contributor:

Baruch Spinoza

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1662

Subjects:

Philosophy, Ethics, Life cycle, Conceptualism, Economic life, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography, Science & philosophy