John Locke's Index
An incomplete index from John Locke’s medical notebook for the years 1662–1667. Bodleian Shelfmark MS. Locke f.25. Courtesy Bodleian Library.
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Milton's Bed
Milton, poised between his amanuenses and his museum. Eugène Delacroix, Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to His Daughters. (Wikimedia Commons)
Akenside's Museum
Title page of The Museum, ed. Mark Akenside (London: Robert Dodsley, 1746). Apollo, as a figure of poetry, is seated between his inspiration and his messenger. Courtesy University of Michigan Special Collections.