Links tagged with “17thcentury”
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Erin Maglaque · Inclined to Putrefaction: In Quarantine · LRB 9 February 2020
Published in February, this review of a book about how 17th century Florence coped with the plague now seems very knowing.
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File:Bill of Mortality.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grim government statistics for 1665. No pretty graphs.
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LRB · Charles Nicholl · ‘A Naughty House’
Entertaining account of some early 17th century people and places around Whitecross Street, St John Street, Barbican.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 by Various - Project Gutenberg
Completely wonderful 17th century science. Fascinating subjects, beautiful titles (“A Relation of Persons killed with subterraneous Damps”) and gorgeous language.
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Pepys on Twitter (Pepys’ Diary)
Samuel Pepys will now be updating his Twitter feed several times a day from 343 years ago.
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The Fell Types - My Revival Fonts
Fonts derived from late 17th century printing.