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An engraved portrait of John Parkinson included in Garden of Pleasant Flowers, originally by Albert Switzer.
An illustration of anatomical theater, where the study of the body would be performed, created by Andries Stock in 1616.
A picture of the Great Chain of Being used during the Renaissance to sort and categorize different foods.
Eli Duke treks through Antartica with Google Street view equipment strapped to his back.
Eli Duke, Antarctica: New Years Day Castle Rock Hike.
Eli Duke, Antarctica: New Years Day Castle Rock Hike.
A recipe found in the book of secrets for grinding cinabrium to write or paint with
Book 6 of the Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis Pietmont.
A picture of the title page of a renaissance book of secrets.
Example of a remedy for a knock on the head or goose egg found in the Secretes of the Reverende Alexis Piemount
An image of the inside cover of the book, The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Piemont which contains the bookplate from one of the past owners.
An example of some of the recipes found in the second part of the book of secretes.
An image of the title page for the Second Parte of the Book of Secretes
The final page of the Book of Secretes showing the end of the table of contents from the first part of the book
The title page of the first book in Girolamo Ruscelli's book of secrets, which studies medicine and healing.
Example of common medical remedies found in Ruscelli's The Book of Secretes
A reciepe to dye bones from The Book of Secretes pg. 90
An example of some of the marginalia notes found throughout the pages of the book of secretes
An example of a renaissance remedy for hemorrhoids found in Girolomo Ruscelli's The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis de Piemont
A remedy against venomous beetles found in The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont.
A remedy for a cough in young children found in The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont.
Remedy for removing poison from a wound, found in The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont.
Remedy for bad breathe found in The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont.
Remedy for epilepsy, known as falling sickness, found in the Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont.
A recipe to see if a woman conceiveth found in the Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemont
Book cover of the Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount
A remedy for the plague found in The Secretes of the Reverende Mayster Alexis of Piemount
A digital scan of page 65 from the third book in the book of secretes.
A scan of page 72 from book three of The Secretes of Reverende Piedemont outlining recipes for the confiture of gourds and cherries.
An oil painting created in the late 16th century by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. The painting depicts the Roman god of plant life, Vertumnus. The painting was commissioned by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II.
A design of jeweled initial letters created by Hans Holbein the Younger.
A woodcut in a series created by Hans Holbein the Younger. This is image is "The Physician" from his "Totentanz" or "Dance Macabre" series.
A piece of jewelry created in the 1500s made of gold and highlighted by emeralds and diamonds the original creator is unknown however it was donated to the Walters Art Museum in 1931.
Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem (‘Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel, / quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel’) in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
An illustration of Hippocrates (460-377 BCE), a Greek physician who created humoral pathology.
"Kitchen scene, with Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary in the background" is of an oil painting created by Joachim Bueckelaer in 1569. It shows a woman standing in the foreground holding a leg of meat amidst a kitchen. There are vegetables on…