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		<title>A Closer Look at Richard Wagner&#8217;s Manuscripts</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/22/a-closer-look-at-richard-wagners-manuscripts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, one of the most influential and controversial composers ever to have lived. With his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (&#8220;total work of art&#8221;) &#8211; by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts &#8211; he revolutionised opera and gave birth to such masterpieces as Tristan und Isolde and the epic four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. If his music was sublime, his political views regarding &#8220;race&#8221; were far from it &#8211; in his writings he frequently expressed anti-semitic views (particularly in his racist tract Judaism in Music). The beauty of his music and the vileness of some of his political opinions (complicated by the fact that he was reported to have had life-long Jewish friends), make him a continuing source of intrigue and debate for scholars the world over. To mark the anniversary the British Library have made available online its collection of Wagner manuscripts, mostly from early on in his career. The manuscripts come from the huge music-related manuscript collection of the great Austrian writer and music obsessive Stefan Zweig (whose writings, incidentally, passed into the public domain this year). Zweig acquired the Wagner manuscripts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Böckler&#8217;s Pleasure Garden Plans (1664)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/21/bocklers-pleasure-garden-plans-1664/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected illustrations from the German architect and engineer Georg Andreas Böckler&#8217;s Architectura Curiosa Nova (1664). The book is mostly concerned with the theory of hydrodyanmics, water pump systems and different designs for water fountains, but also contains this series of elaborate geometrical pleasure garden designs. It&#8217;s not entirely clear whether they are projected plans or a record of what already existed (if anyone knows then please do let us know!). (All images are from Wikimedia Commons, originally contributed by Deutsche Fotothek). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/16/athanasius-kircher-and-the-hieroglyphic-sphinx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[athanasius kircher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 170 years before Jean-François Champollion had the first real success in translating Egyptian hieroglyphs, the 17th century Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was convinced he had cracked it. He was very wrong. Daniel Stolzenberg looks at Kircher&#8217;s Egyptian Oedipus, a book that has been called “one of the most learned monstrosities of all times.” In 1655, after more than two decades of toil, Athanasius Kircher published Egyptian Oedipus. With his title, the Jesuit scholar characteristically paid honor to himself. Like Oedipus answering the riddle of the Sphinx, Kircher believed he had solved the enigma of the hieroglyphs. Together with its companion volume, Pamphilian Obelisk, Kircher’s magnum opus presented Latin translations of hieroglyphic inscriptions — utterly mistaken, as post–Rosetta-Stone Egyptology would reveal — preceded by treatises on ancient Egyptian history, the origins of idolatry, allegorical and symbolic wisdom, and numerous non-Egyptian textual traditions that supposedly preserved elements of the “hieroglyphic doctrine.” In addition to ancient Greek and Latin authors, Kircher’s vast array of sources included texts in Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, Coptic, Samaritan, and Ethiopian, as well as archeological evidence. The resulting amalgam is, without doubt, impressive. But it can also bewilder. Egyptian Oedipus promised a complete “restoration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrative plates from How I Killed the Tiger (1902)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected plates from How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902), a small book by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. As the author explains in his introduction: My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvellous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game. Read the book, including more illustrative plates, over in our post in the Texts collection. (All images taken from the book housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the University of Toronto Libraries). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Killed the Tiger (1902)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How I killed the tiger being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India; 1902; Smith&#8217;s Print.and Pub. Agency, London. How I killed the tiger; being an account of my encounter with a royal Bengal tiger, with an appendix containing some general information about India (1902) is a small book written by Lieutenant Colonel Frank Sheffield detailing his close brush with death by tiger. As the author explains in his introduction: My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger. My life had been adventurous up to that time. I had shot big game of various kinds. But this episode, so marvellous in itself, so important in its influence upon my after life and character, marks the close of my career as a hunter of big game. See a selection of the book&#8217;s wonderful illustrative plates over in the post in our Images collection. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the University of Toronto Libraries. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Italian song with Zampogna and Ciaramella (1920)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/13/traditional-italian-song-with-zampogna-and-ciaramella-1920/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Zampogna is an Italian bagpipe, and a Ciaramella is a small woodwind that plays the higher melody line over the Zampogna&#8217;s drone. This combination is often used for traditional Christmas music, as in this circa 1920 recording of a &#8220;Novena Di Natale&#8221; by uncredited performers. MP3 Download Internet Archive Link HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:]]></description>
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		<title>The Kawana Trio (1919)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/10/the-kawana-trio-1919/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A film by Hans A. Spanuth for the series &#8220;Spanuth&#8217;s Original Vod-A-Vil Movies&#8221; filmed in Chicago. It shows the daring exploits of the the Kawana Trio, described in the opening credits as &#8220;Artistic Foot Jugglers&#8221;. The film is housed at Open Images, originally from the Library of Congress. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your subscription! Name: E-mail:]]></description>
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		<title>17th century Ethiopian manuscript: the miracles of the archangel Michael</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/09/17th-century-ethiopian-manuscript-the-miracles-of-the-archangel-michael/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of folios from an illuminated manuscript of 17th century Ethiopia, produced during the cultural boom, especially in painting, brought about by the establishment of a permanent court at Gondar by the Solomonic emperor Fasilädäs (who reigned 1632-67). The nearly 50 full-page illuminations of this particular manuscript tell the story of the Archangel Michael who, under the patronage of Emperor Zär&#8217;a Ya&#8217;eqob, had became the most venerated of all archangels in Ethiopia. He is depicted undertaking a vast host of miracles and heroic feats including saving the faithful from the burning flames of hell, healing the sick and treading on Satan. The illustrations can also teach us about the Ethiopia of the time. According to The Walters Art Museum, &#8220;the minutely rendered textiles in these pictures suggest a connection with the fashions of the Gondarine court and indicate that the painters depicted their scriptural subjects using a visual language rooted in contemporary culture.&#8221; (All images taken from The Walters Art Museum. Visit their site to see the rest of the folios and for higher res versions.) HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bible Symbols (1908)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/07/bible-symbols-1908/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bible symbols, designed and arranged to stimulate a greater interest in the study of the Bible by both young and old. The choicest passages of God&#8217;s word put in the fascinating garb of pictures by Frank Beard and others. Text prepared and arranged by Martha Van Marter; 1908; Hertel, Jenkins Co., Chicago. As the subtitle eloquently explains &#8220;The choicest passages of God&#8217;s word put in the fascinating garb of pictures&#8221;. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the Princeton Theological Seminary Library. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/05/01/as-a-lute-out-of-tune-robert-burtons-melancholy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1621 Robert Burton first published his masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy, a vast feat of scholarship examining in encyclopaedic detail that most enigmatic of maladies. Noga Arikha explores the book, said to be the favorite of both Samuel Johnson and Keats, and places it within the context of the humoural theory so popular at the time. Robert Burton might well have loved the Internet. His Anatomy of Melancholy, whose first of six editions published during the Oxford clergyman’s lifetime appeared in 1621, is the apogee of Renaissance scholarship &#8211; at once the summa of classical learning spliced and rendered in the vernacular for the delight of its early modern audience, and a dense network of embedded quotations, a seemingly infinite set of hyperlinks. This never-ending gathering of scholarship could seem a testimony to the ultimate vanity of human knowledge, as melancholy as the endless sea of information that our screens indifferently project to our digital onlookers’ tired eyes. One would be hard-put to read the entirety of this enormous tome online, but online and public it needs to be, because it is one of the greatest works in the English language, because it is a good book to browse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lantern Slides of Norway (ca.1910)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/29/lantern-slides-of-norway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection from a collection of early 20th century lantern slides held at the Fylkesarkivet of Sogn og Fjordane, a county in the west of Norway. The slides are produced by at least two British photographers – professional photographer Samuel J. Beckett and amateur photographer P. Heywood Hadfield, who was a ship&#8217;s surgeon employed by the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Hadfield produced several illustrated books from his travels, including With an Ocean Liner (Orient Co’s S.S. “Ophir”) through the Fiords of Norway. A Photographic Memento of a Fortnight’s Cruising, published in several editions by the London Stereoscopic &#038; Photographic Co. Ltd in the early 1900s. Beckett also produced a book on Norway The Fjords and Folk of Norway, first published in 1915 by Methuen &#038; Co. Ltd. Learn more about Lantern Slides here. (All images taken from the Flickr Commons collection of the Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane. Visit for higher resolution images and for more details on each photograph). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bifurcated Girls: Vanity Fair Special Issue (1903)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/26/bifurcated-girls-vanity-fair-special-issue-1903/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not the same Vanity Fair of current fame, this was a version published by The Commonwealth Publishing Company of New York City, incorporated in February 1902 but which went bankrupt in April 1904. &#8220;Vanity Fair&#8221; has been the title for at least 5 magazines, and as a phrase became popular through John Bunyan&#8217;s Pilgrim&#8217;s Progress where it was the name for Beelzebub&#8217;s dominion, and later also as the title of William Thackeray&#8217;s 1848 novel. Dian Hansen in the first volume of her History of Men&#8217;s Magazines (Taschen, 2004) discusses the &#8220;Bifurcated Girls&#8221; special issue and argues that this particular incarnation of Vanity Fair can be seen as the origin of the American girlie magazine: While France had a well-established men&#8217;s magazine industry by 1900, America was just showing its ankles in 1903. A magazine called Vanity Fair (unrelated to the current incarnation) was the raciest thing around, and rooming house loozies the hotties of the time. In this New York, tabloid girls who drank like men might strip down to their petticoats and fall into bed together, exposing their corset cover and stockings to peeping male boarders. The famously loose morals of stage actresses made them popular subjects for these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texts in Sebald&#8217;s The Rings of Saturn</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/23/texts-in-sebalds-the-rings-of-saturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time of his death in 2001 at the age of 57, the German writer W.G. Sebald was cited by many critics as a future winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was his book The Rings of Saturn, written in 1995 (translated into English in 1998), which went a long way to securing Sebald&#8217;s reputation as a writer pioneering a new kind of literary fiction. The book is exemplary of his strange and unique style: the hybridity of genres, the blurring of fact and fiction, the indistinct black and white photographs, and his meditation on the destructive nature of history, the human lives affected, and the restorative power of art. The book is, on one level, a walking tour through the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, Sebald&#8217;s adopted home (he&#8217;d taught literature at the UEA there since 1970). The reader moves with the melancholic narrator from town to town, village to village, but in the process &#8211; through an astonishing network of associations, tangents, and apparent coincidences &#8211; one is led all over the world, into many different times, and many different lives. A ride on a miniature railway at Somerleyton Hall leads to 19th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jelly Roll Morton (1927)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/19/jelly-roll-morton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A compilation of Jelly Roll Morton&#8217;s classic Chicago &#8220;Red Hot Peppers&#8221; sessions, recorded in 1926-27. Jelly Roll Morton &#8211; ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer from New Orleans, Louisiana &#8211; started out his musical career playing brothels as a teenager, then toured the American South as part of a minstrel show, before settling in Chicago where he started to write songs. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz&#8217;s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. In 1915, his composition &#8220;Jelly Roll Blues&#8221; became the first ever published jazz composition. Morton is also notable for naming and popularizing the &#8220;Spanish tinge&#8221; (habanera rhythm and tresillo), and for writing such standards as &#8220;Wolverine Blues&#8221;, &#8220;Black Bottom Stomp&#8221;, and &#8220;I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say&#8221;, the latter a tribute to New Orleans personalities from the turn of the 19th century to 20th century. (Wikipedia) MP3 Download Internet Archive Link Some songs, if not composed by Jelly Roll Morton, may still be under copyright in certain places. Please check status in your jurisdiction before re-using. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vesalius and the Body Metaphor</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/18/vesalius-and-the-body-metaphor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[City streets, a winepress, pulleys, spinning tops, a ray fish, curdled milk: just a few of the many images used by 16th century anatomist Andreas Vesalius to explain the workings of the human body in his seminal work De Humani Corporis Fabrica. Marri Lynn explores. Andreas Vesalius threw down a glove in front of established medicine and its scholars when, in 1543, he produced a massive anatomy text titled De Humani Corporis Fabrica — on the fabric of the human body. Vesalius believed that the field of medicine was being ill served by sending its students to books to learn their anatomy. The flesh itself had to teach, not merely the page. This idea of hands-on learning trumping an ancient textual legacy was an affront to many of Vesalius’ medical peers. Medicine was not a handicraft, but a noble scholastic art. Far from trying to disparage his discipline, Vesalius intended to elevate the most denigrated field of medicine &#8211; surgery &#8211; to that same level of esteem. He was taking a professional risk. But the Fabrica, the result of untold hours of dissection and writing, largely spoke persuasively for itself. Vesalius exposed hundreds of mistakes made by Galen, whose writings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/17/illustrations-from-a-victorian-book-on-magic-1897/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected images from a massive late 19th century tome entitled simply Magic, subtitled Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. The book takes a thorough tour through the popular magic tricks and illusions of the day, including along the way many delightfully surreal diagrams and illustrations, the top pick of which we&#8217;ve included here &#8211; often especially great when seen out of context. Towards the end are some particularly great &#8220;decapitation&#8221; trick photographs. See the book, with explanatory text and many more illustrations over in our post in the Texts collection. (All images taken from the book housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the California Digital Library.) HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magic: stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography (1897)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/17/magic-stage-illusions-and-scientific-diversions-including-trick-photography-1897/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magic: stage illusions and scientific diversions, including trick photography, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins, with an introduction by Henry Ridgely Evans; 1897; Low, London. A massive late 19th century book on magic and stage illusions including a section on trick photography. The book includes more than 400 (mostly) magnificently surreal illustrations and explanatory diagrams, a select few of which you can see over in our post in the Images collection. The book is housed at the Internet Archive, contributed by the California Digital Library. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Accidents of Youth (1819)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/15/the-accidents-of-youth-1819/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Accidents of Youth, consisting of short histories, calculated to improve the moral conduct of children, and warn them of the many dangers to which they are exposed : illustrated by engravings; 1819; Jas. W. and Chas. Adlard, London. Through a series of short stories and wonderful engravings, this book is aimed at keeping young people out of trouble and &#8220;calculated to improve [their] moral conduct&#8221;. As the author declares in his/her brilliantly earnest preface addressed to the child reader of the book: My Dear Children, The inexperience and thoughtlessness natural at your age exposes you to many dangers : I have therefore pointed out some of them in this book, which contains several instructive little histories, in which you will behold the misfortunes that arise from disobedience and want of thought. When your parents desire you not to climb upon the chairs, or touch the fire, or play with knives, or pins, it is not because they wish to prevent you amusing yourselves ; they are only anxious to keep you from harm. If you were allowed to do whatever you pleased, many accidents would happen through your own indiscretion : for instance, when climbing on the furniture you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Fashion from the Schembart Carnival (1590)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/11/radical-fashion-from-the-schembart-carnival-1590/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illustrations from a 16th century manuscript detailing the phenomenon of Nuremberg&#8217;s Schembart Carnival, (literally &#8220;bearded-mask&#8221; carnival). Beginning in 1449, the event was popular throughout the 15th century but was ended in 1539 due to the complaints of an influential preacher named Osiander who objected to his effigy being paraded on a float, depicting him playing backgammon surrounded by fools and devils. According to legend, the carnival had its roots in a dance (a &#8220;Zämertanz&#8221;) which the butchers of Nuremberg were given permission to hold by the Emperor as a reward for their loyalty amid a trade guild rebellion. Over the years the event took on a more subversive tone, evolving to let others take part with elaborate costumes displayed and large ships on runners, known as &#8220;Hells&#8221;, which were paraded through the streets. After its end, many richly illustrated manuscripts (known as &#8220;Schembartbücher&#8221;) were made detailing the carnival&#8217;s 90 year existence. We are unsure what the flaming &#8220;artichokes&#8221; are all about, if any one has a clue do let us know in the comments! *UPDATE* solved &#8211; according to Christies: &#8220;They brandished lances and bunches of leaves &#8211; known as Lebensrute &#8212; that concealed fireworks.&#8221; (All images taken from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hasheesh Eater (1857)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/09/the-hasheesh-eater-1857/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean, by Fitz Hugh Ludlow; 1857; Harper &#038; Bros., New York. The Hasheesh Eater: being passages from the life of a Pythagorean is an autobiographical book by the American novelist and journalist Fitz Hugh Ludlow in which he describes his altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while using a cannabis extract. Many pages are given over to detailed and elaborate descriptions of the visions he underwent after ingesting the drug. He also curiously talks of the perils of severe addiction although such a thing is not normally associated with cannabis use (some put this down to an overactive wish to align himself with his hero Thomas De Quincey and his experience with opium). The book was very popular on its publication in 1857 and led to great interest in the drug it described. Not long after its publication, the Gunjah Wallah Co. in New York began advertising &#8220;Hasheesh Candy&#8221;: The Arabian &#8220;Gunjh&#8221; of Enchantment confectionized. — A most pleasurable and harmless stimulant. — Cures Nervousness, Weakness, Melancholy, &#038;c. Inspires all classes with new life and energy. A complete mental and physical invigorator. Cult figure Terence McKenna would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hands (1944)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Films: 1940s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Have you ever thought about what hands can do?&#8221;, asks the opening of this short WWII propaganda film from the U.S. Army Pictorial Service. The film is from the Prelinger Archive, housed at the Internet Archive. Note this film is in the public domain in the US, but may not be in other jurisdictions. Please check its status in your jurisdiction before re-using. HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - everything helps! Become a Patron Small angel : £3.00 GBP - monthly Medium sized hero : £5.00 GBP - monthly Large emperor : £10.00 GBP - monthly Vast deity : £20.00 GBP - monthly Make a one off Donation SIGN UP TO THE NEWSLETTER Sign up to get our free fortnightly newsletter which shall deliver direct to your inbox the latest brand new article and a digest of the most recent collection items. Simply add your details to the form below and click the link you receive via email to confirm your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extracts from the Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks (1769)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/05/extracts-from-the-endeavour-journal-of-joseph-banks-1769/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appointed as the expedition&#8217;s official botanist, a 25 year old Joseph Banks travelled on Captain Cook&#8217;s first great voyage to the South Pacific in 1768. After landing on the island of Tahiti, Banks was soon to become an invaluable member of the crew by virtue of the friendly relations he struck up with the islanders; a mutual trust he built up through his openness, natural curiosity and fascination with their customs and way of life. In his willingness to learn their language, eat their food, sleep in their huts, record their customs and partake in their rituals, Banks was pioneering a new kind of science &#8211; that of ethnology. As the weeks progressed his botanical observations increasingly gave way to a study of the people (&#8220;studies&#8221; that were not always at arm&#8217;s length!). His experiences in his three month stay on the island are recorded in his Endeavour Journal. The journal is unique in character, not merely in terms of its content but also, as the writer Richard Holmes comments, &#8220;for their racy style, appalling spelling and non-existent punctuation&#8221;. Below are a few choice extracts, highlighted by Richard Holmes in his (highly recommnded) The Age of Wonder &#8211; a book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/04/joseph-banks-portraits-of-a-placid-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Fara traces the changing iconography of Joseph Banks, the English botanist who travelled on Captain Cook&#8217;s first great voyage and went on to become President of the Royal Society and important patron for a whole host of significant developments in the natural sciences. Benjamin Robert Haydon, the artist who helped bring the Elgin marbles to the British Museum, was scathing about portraiture. It is, he declared in 1817, ‘one of the staple manufactures of the empire. Wherever the British settle, wherever they colonise, they carry and will ever carry trial by jury, horse-racing, and portrait-painting.’ His list of imperial products might also have included Joseph Banks (1743-1820), who is celebrated as one of Australia’s founding fathers. Although this eminent botanical collector sailed with James Cook to the South Seas and was President of London’s Royal Society for forty-two years, he was pushed into obscurity by his Victorian successors. Towards the end of the twentieth century, Antipodean historians restored Banks’s reputation by showing his crucial role in persuading the British government to invest in scientific exploration. Banks is important not for his research legacy, but because he was a canny operator who knew how to promote himself as well as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents (1658)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/03/the-history-of-four-footed-beasts-and-serpents-1658/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A selection of woodcuts from a book entitled The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents, published in 1658. Most of this three-volume compilation is comprised of the zoological works of the English clergyman Edward Topsell who published several books on religion and other matters during his lifetime. A whole host of animals are represented in Topsell&#8217;s illustrations, all of which which came directly from earlier works by the Swiss physician, naturalist, and author Konrad Gesner. Amongst the usual suspects there are also more unusual mythical specimens, such as the “Hydra,” with two claws, a curled serpent’s tail, and seven small mammalian heads; the “Lamia,” with a cat-like body, hooves on the hind feet, claws on the front, and a human woman’s face and hair; and the “Mantichora,” with a lion’s body and mane, a man’s face and head of hair, and a grotesquely smiling mouth. (All images taken from the University of Houston Digital Library). HELP TO KEEP US AFLOAT The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project and we rely on support from our readers to stay afloat. If you like what we do then please do consider making a donation. We welcome all contributions, big or small - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Mooney&#8217;s Ghost Dance Recordings (1894)</title>
		<link>http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/04/02/james-mooneys-ghost-dance-recordings-1894/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of recordings made by James Mooney in 1894 of different Native American Ghost Dance songs. According to the Library Of Congress notes that accompany the recordings, the performances are probably by Mooney himself and not by Native Americans. Mooney was an ethnographer and self-taught expert on American tribes through his own studies and his careful observation during long residences with different groups, specifically the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. His most notable works were his ethnographic studies of the Ghost Dance after Sitting Bull&#8217;s death in 1890, a widespread 19th-century religious movement among various Native American culture groups. According to the prophet Jack Wilson (Wovoka)&#8217;s teachings, proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with the spirits of the dead and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to native peoples throughout the region. MP3 Download Part 1 / Part 2]]></description>
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