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The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.

Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.

The Virgin looks away from her Bible as the angel appears, bearing lilies. Engraving by C. Visscher after A. de Weerdt.

A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.

An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.

Literature saving the past from destruction by Time, in the form of a winged old man with a scythe. Etching by L. du Guernier.

Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.

An omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700.

The Virgin, reading a scroll on a prie-dieu, is visited by the announcing angel. Engraving by M. van der Gucht.

Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.

The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

Der Gelehrte in der deutschen Vergangenheit / Mit 130 Abbildungen und Beilagen nach den Originalen aus dem fünfzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhundert.

Medical thought in Ancient India and Greece : a comparative perspective on the relation between social structure and modes of medical reasoning / Volker Roelcke.

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The order of things : an archaeology of the human sciences / Michel Foucault.

Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

Der Gelehrte in der deutschen Vergangenheit / Mit 130 Abbildungen und Beilagen nach den Originalen aus dem fünfzehnten bis achtzehnten Jahrhundert.

Medical thought in Ancient India and Greece : a comparative perspective on the relation between social structure and modes of medical reasoning / Volker Roelcke.