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17th-century thumbscrew, Märkisches Museum Berlin 17th-century thumbscrew, Märkisches Museum Berlin Scottish thumbscrew Scottish thumbscrews. The thumbscrew is a torture instrument which was first used in early modern Europe. It is a simple vise, sometimes with protruding studs on the interior surfaces. Victims' thumbs, fingers, or toes were ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category is for articles on history books published in the 17th century. 12th; 13th; 14th; 15th; 16th ...
17th century. Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658; 1645 edition at UCLA) Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661) Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676) Klencke Atlas (1660; world's largest book) Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667) Atlante Veneto (Coronelli, Venice, 1691) 18th century
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... 17th-century books in Latin (3 C, 63 P). 17th-century Dutch books ...
The term incunabula came to denote printed books themselves in the late 17th century. [15] It is not found in English before the mid-19th century. [9] Junius set an end-date of 1500 to his era of incunabula, which remains the convention in modern bibliographical scholarship.
Emblem books first became popular in the sixteenth century with Andrea Alciato's Emblemata and remained popular until the eighteenth century. [ 1 ] Many emblematic works borrowed plates or texts (or both) from earlier exemplars, as was the case with Geoffrey Whitney 's Choice of Emblemes , a compilation which chiefly used the resources of the ...
Martin's Hundred was one of the subsidiary "particular" plantations of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London. It was owned by a group of investors known as The Society of Martin's Hundred, named for Richard Martin, recorder of the City of London, [1] (not to be confused with his near-contemporary Richard Martin who was the father of Jamestown councilor John Martin). [2]
John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument.