http://www.mindisacollection.org/objects daily 0.75 2023-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445538484867-B7CZBENKNJH7FQ23RD3Z/image-asset.png OBJECTS   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443732282411-V6W9SDD3V5SQ1OWBKUA9/Slide02.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445543114959-B4C0E606CBM6EUTMGETN/Cheselden%2C+Osteographia+TP.jpg OBJECTS Cheselden, Osteographia (1728), Title Page. Image from National Library of Medicine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445543587106-HMGHIH7RHPTV29Z0GN93/Reynolds+Self-Portrait.jpg OBJECTS Reynolds's self-portrait-- in a repeated pose, gazing through the simplest of optical instruments. National Portrait Gallery, NPG 41. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441653379334-0XBKT4HFUV2UBEJHSOQW/27+Reynolds+Wm+Hunter.jpg OBJECTS William Hunter, at work among his medical preparations. GLAHA 43793. © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, 2014. For more, see Exhibit 20, Blank Paper (1). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441653255346-YDABLUYGRXBDX39YEC7A/24+Atlas+XXXIV+%28cropped%29.jpg OBJECTS "A Foetus at five weeks." William Hunter and Jan van Rymsdyk, Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata (London, 1774), plate 34.1. Courtesy Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441653290407-0RU0ZYB2F9C09JYPPYM8/25+Atlas+34+4-9+%28cropped%29.jpg OBJECTS Six so-called "conceptions," still invisible to the eye, organized as though they were the same conception. They are arranged in reverse order, retreating towards the moment of generation. Hunter, Anatomy, 34.4-9. Image courtesy University of California, Los Angeles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1421172102934-L3JWUMW6U5ATCTNDHUPN/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434257688015-VJPZVTLI350DVGDCU750/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434258967225-CNENVXFLRYVECREPZJVJ/Delacroix%2C+Milton+Dictating.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445284319892-VPFNG6J622LYO9XDEI8J/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Facing pages of John Locke's interleaved copy of Thomas Hyde's Catalogus Bibliotheque Bodleianae (1674). Location: Bodleian Library, Locke 16.17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445024993935-WZ468TZINNN3DLD5CN4U/Thomas+Hyde.jpg OBJECTS Thomas Hyde, by an unknown hand. Hyde is now best-known for coining "dualism." Image from Hyde, Syntagma dissertationum quas olim... Hyde (London, 1767). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445284502572-1K8WPD4YJRUPCMKHF0N9/MIaC+Museum-Metaphor.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445025818749-1PT94ZEYCALP1W9BQLSV/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS The wrath of Achilles, that brought numberless ills upon the Achaeans-- reduced to the size of a packet of cough-drops. Dacier transl., Paris 1817. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445023801800-SWPKGVHPJXRXA04S5ULW/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS John Locke, seated in his (?) library. Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1697), Christ Church, Oxford. Photo by Curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445023738845-SS15IBPWKFPKNMCQSUU3/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS An early index from John Locke’s medical notebook for the years 1662–1667. Bodleian Shelfmark MS. Locke f.25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434961895422-A7UXRFZ4XQZ744Z9HVEB/image-asset.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435063308194-U1WUKP1ELMXHZTGTGTG6/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS John Woodward, by an Unknown hand. Image (c) Department of Earth Sciences and Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435063159904-BS89AHXIXUV5JAV42F3Y/2c+Woodward%27s+Pebble.jpg OBJECTS Stone c.226, a "flinty peble," that was the first Woodward ever took notice of, or bothered to collect. (c) Department of Earth Sciences and Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435060731168-SPG6L0XG3TEXSXNI8QBC/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435062744702-FBCUQ09131B501WPC975/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS The "General Index" to Woodward's An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England (1728-29), xv. Image from archive.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434464311526-W3OM1PFOVD6RYC08HTH3/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445548943484-IVEBDUTCCSAGZ1GTTA3A/Pope%27s+Grotto+Sign.jpg OBJECTS At the sign of Pope's Grotto, Cross Deep. Photo by Curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441895953923-WFDFMH5HUCVXLOH1RZ74/Searle%2C+Perspective+View.jpg OBJECTS From Serle, "A Plan of Mr. Pope's Grotto" (London, 1745). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441895768705-QYACI0FGKJW56ARRIFX9/11+Pope%27s+Grotto+%28cropped%29.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441895818292-63PPD2YWDIWNUX08YPKH/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS A stone from the grotto of Egeria, now beneath the Twickenham main road. Photo by curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441896065895-9CNOBVT31P5MI1ZDKUE1/Kent%2C+Pope+in+his+Grotto.jpg OBJECTS Alexander Pope in his Grotto, by William Kent. There has been rich speculation about the little fluttering creatures surrounding the grotto; I suspect they are sylphs, the products of Pope's poetic fancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441852851316-WTLYQS8F5A3LOI19HUZK/image-asset.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435067184468-UXTRBJK9B4NL5S4CH29X/image-asset.png OBJECTS William Say, after Henri Jean-Baptiste Fradelle, Belinda at her Toilet, ca. 1820. (c) Trustees of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435066861978-K4VIWTP4PUFOBFDQMKTM/Johannes_Vermeer_-_The_Astronomer_-_WGA24685.jpg OBJECTS Johannes Vermeer, The Astronomer (ca. 1688). Source: wikimedia commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435067918324-D99Q3G1P1EY6EII5NV1U/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS William Storer, Royal Delineator, Science Museum, Blythe House, 1775-1785. Object No. 1924-474. © Science Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435066644337-0Q99P9LF5NPBGGPEC1MX/Title+Page%2C+Eikon+Basilike.png OBJECTS William Marshall, title page to Eikon Basilica (1649). Photo by curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434876366296-SWJYPVVP1H020ZB57RK8/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1475896095703-T043T2DZ55POFSJM7Y9C/IMG_3132.JPG OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434877057438-V18EXT5P0OSG0V2MG1KB/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434960202030-0J85CRX9CDEBCC9P5DCJ/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Mark Akenside, Engraved by Fisher (after Pond). Original at Wellcome Images (Creative Commons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445027863959-160C4G8UO8PRR4673GK8/image-asset.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1434960401947-YSDKLP2M38EB3BRMBK8C/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Title Page of The Pleasures of the Imagination, printed by Robert Dodsley, Akenside's publisher. Original at Wellcome Images (Creative Commons). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441649904178-80GGP4RJ6LCBWSJXATTM/image-asset.png OBJECTS William Hay, from The Life and Works of William Hay (London, 1794). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441650020393-WBRYY8CWR9XVZ35RMEO0/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS A hasty red-chalk drawing of Alexander Pope, taken (probably without his permission) by portraitist William Hoare, sometime around 1740. Original is in the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 873. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441649919288-APMWJML1J44D9XQKJ0PE/Hogarth%2C+Analysis+of+Beauty.jpg OBJECTS William Hogarth, Analysis of Beauty (London, 1753), Plate 1. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441648411467-Q9CHQCBYC6SW97N6HN0N/18+Hay%27s+Stone+%28cropped%29.jpg OBJECTS A small flat oval calculus, taken after death from the bladder of William Hay, Esq. Specimen A184 of the British Museum. Photo by curator from an engraving in the Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Calculi... (1842), courtesy Wellcome Library, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441647308651-6O8MJKKCRUY4PFLMBBV0/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435242715904-SG3EUUF1U0HRRF7TOHTT/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS lid of the Tradescants' sarcophagus. Photo by curator, used with kind permission of the Garden Museum in Lambeth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435242310993-25BY6S16AE2K2AWXQHAE/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS A micrographic Inferno: Dante Alighieri, MSS copy in unknown hand, measuring 14x23mm when closed. National Library of Austria. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442005612419-A7YJ6KKY1YTQFHSGQI59/image-asset.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442005943406-9C4KWW46WP2D065NPFH9/Prayer+Nut+small.jpg OBJECTS Flemish "Prayer Nut," ca. 1600, carved from boxwood. British Museum WB.236. © Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435328534795-R5N9GAGJ33BIY4QJE5VW/Micrographia+Cork.jpg OBJECTS A section of cork, from Hooke, Micrographia (see Exhibit 11). Photo by Curator, from the copy at the University of Michigan Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435326150963-KW9XS88WSNYXRBZI1WPD/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Laine Stranahan, "The Rosetta Disk." Photo from The Long Now. I can't help noticing the formal similarities between Stranahan's image and the title page of Scheiner's essay on the Pantograph. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435324883603-EUKZCQ334ULR6592OB7Q/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Robert Hooke's microscope, and his powerful apparatus for illumination. Photo by curator, from the University of Michigan website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435324753391-VRRMRIO2FMCCSBI7LTKZ/image-asset.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446829471968-AS6LDJON4PVSBIYK430Y/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS From the Oxfordshire county line to Oxford, a straight path. John Ogilby, Britannia Depicta (London, 1720). Sights and points of interest, like digressions, are located in the margins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441642198537-RPC1RJH5ABCKOHJX4NJH/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Robert Plot, Natural History of Oxford-Shire (London, 1677). Britannia is seated between the instruments of learning and the emblems of media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441642839220-PRZG5SW7TYXOW5KGD8R4/Stukeley%2C+Itinerarium+TP.jpg OBJECTS William Stukeley, Itinerarium Curiosum (2nd ed.: London, 1726). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441642874551-RQO3R04FTNJAF1BZB3US/Plot%27s+Digression.jpg OBJECTS Plot's digression, itinerary by Curator. Plot might have saved as many as 3,000 miles if he had optimized the journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435329528980-616AT0646GWRL6DGIV95/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441642490592-87A36PPX69Z7O5VWWXO7/Robert+Plot%2C+Ashmolean.jpg OBJECTS Robert Plot (1640-1696), by William Reader. Photo by Curator of original at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435496925524-0VGWEYRW6QOT3E67XZ4V/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435498425626-TEIIDTVL0N4LCO146FSF/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441656923952-1YESBWZN0FYFDCHO5QFX/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS Joseph Addison in a grotto, overlooking a garden, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Original at the National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3193. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441656209918-EUE2JERQD65ZY6TPNMQP/16+Addison%27s+Walk+1.jpg OBJECTS From an untitled pencil sketch (now lost) of Bilton Hall, included without attribution in D. G. Kingsbury, Bilton Hall (London: Mitre Press, 1957). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441657529029-S90O5C5UW4UZG1KJ27TT/Becket%27s+Casket.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442930830455-3N9NNNHUG91REX82PX07/Stone+Case.jpg OBJECTS A stone case containing a flat, ovoid urinary calculus, bearing the legend "Extracted November the 4th, 1725. Photo courtesy Royal College of Surgeons, from the (John) Hunterian Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. Case 11, Bay 4; Object RCSHM/Z 85. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442929471040-DLI9Z2H4QH35CBIFTQP3/Pepys+Beauty+Retire.jpg OBJECTS Samuel Pepys, oil on canvas, by John Hayls (1666). Now at the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 211). Photo by author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442929341295-UDD0OB2QIQNSBROLCIW9/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS The Pepys Library today. Image copyright BBC. A bookcase of the same cabinet-maker may be seen in this museum in the space labeled Metaphor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442928695428-A9XHBVM1DE1T22TMFKX6/Evelyn%27s+Medal+lowres.jpg OBJECTS Thomas Rawlins, Kineton Valley Medal, 1643. Material: Silver; Size: 1.5” diameter; Weight: 184 grains. © Birmingham Museums Trust, AN 1885N1531. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1442932179970-F010BT9BVX9TTJPE3MLS/Lithotomy+Instruments.jpg OBJECTS Lithotomy instruments, from Pierre Dionis, Cours d'operations de chirurgie (Brussels, 1708). Image courtesy Wellcome Trust, L0017240. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443016880015-BDR0ZGLZFGJLUVVV5NAQ/Samuel_Pepys_diary_manuscript_volumes.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443106662524-MPPVMKUHPS9TBQCKW0JU/SH+Floor-plan.jpg OBJECTS Strawberry Hill, plan view. Entrance is at the bottom right. The Beauclerc tower is the hexagonal room nestled in the upper right corner. Exit is at the top left. From Walpole, Description, photo by curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443104716345-S35IGRWEASSCUON4OKTC/image-asset.png OBJECTS Strawberry Hill (as seen from the lawn) gorgeously restored by the Strawberry Hill Trust. Photo by curator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443104882595-J8E953B0D07VVPOIS8YL/SH+Description+TP.jpg OBJECTS Walpole, Description of the Villa (1784): LWL Folio 33 30 copy 11. Image courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443106902324-31KDMD0TV006TSD2XVRD/21+Walpole%27s+MM.jpg OBJECTS The Mysterious Mother, Walpole's personal copy of this scarce play. A manuscript note on the paste-down (just visible behind the left-hand page) indicates that this copy was specially prepared to be kept in the Beauclerc Closet. Image courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443104358996-MR8Z9BHAFJ3PXBQNIEF4/Hardinge%2C+Muntz%27s+Walpole.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443106035520-KB3J2EN7J409SPBVV3PE/sh-000006.jpg OBJECTS Lady Diana Beauclerc's untitled drawing of the penultimate scene in The Mysterious Mother. Original at the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443105575185-Z8LIGO11NROO3281R3RQ/Strawberry+Hill%2C+Beauclerc.jpg OBJECTS Strawberry Hill, as seen from the lane that fronts it. The Beauclerc tower is the conical roof nestled behind battlements. Drawing by Edward Edwards. Image used with kind permission of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441907685294-EFLWSRUDHQG0R8T3RDTP/Raphael%2C+Triumph+of+Galatea.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441918110741-ASOJYXLKKHTHD23CM2A0/22a+Sterne+TS+6%2C146.jpg OBJECTS Sterne, Tristram Shandy, 6.146. Photo by curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441919084743-C3Z7OXW5YD1GK3TN6SMP/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS William Hunter, by Joshua Reynolds. Original in the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441918167706-T2Q6YBNI8VO5ECGNHV4P/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441915960962-0M7ZOJHOWCW2NJPEXNS9/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441915514787-Y9JZWWNSP5JAGHMKGL95/image-asset.png OBJECTS William Hunter, man-midwife, pays a visit to the scene of a lying-in. Original at the Wellcome Museum, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441917694896-82P89X7NWF3WGROT6B0E/Sterne%2C+Reynolds.jpg OBJECTS Laurence Sterne, by Joshua Reynolds. Original at the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 5019). We usually assume that under Sterne's elbow is the finished manuscript of the first two volumes of his Tristram Shandy-- but, as it is a book that famously struggled to get started, it might just as well be that we are capturing him, here, having just conceived it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441980424707-485IDY163RXB7OWAWR10/29a+RMM878_obv.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445282368893-Z5IS0J2N7PJX339J3K9G/MIaC+Museum-BookofAccounts.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1445278896172-WEC8QLYPN0KEMB5B5KF5/MIaC+Museum-BlankPaper2.png OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443662887326-ZUQDEKIFB2K50ST3O16X/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS William Say, after Henri Jean-Baptiste Fradelle, Belinda at her Toilet, ca. 1820. (c) Trustees of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443662336959-J2DKD0RXCNVSTCOO0WHT/Belinda%27s+Lock.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1443702610134-1YJGBDXX7JJOI3UZ6ZVH/pope-and-curll.jpg OBJECTS A crude, anonymous woodcut of satirist Alexander Pope, "defeated" by Edmund Curll, who published a found manuscript of Pope's letters. Scholars widely agree that Pope staged the whole episode to have his private letters published. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1444940361262-7RMWT08SDZBFHJV2HHSP/Pope%2C+RotL.jpg OBJECTS Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (London: 1714). "Some thought it mounted to the lunar sphere,/ Since all things lost on Earth, are treasur'd there." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446990418757-OI6AZ4AUTVPUOY0IEML3/31+Honest+Jonathan.jpg OBJECTS "Honest Jonathan in His Repository." Wild as head of a criminal "Corporation," the private business behind the public front. from Life and Glorious Actions . . . of Jonathan Wilde (London, 1725). Courtesy Huntington Library, San Marino, California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446986839017-LA2G717O81Q191KGHU8A/Lost+Property+Office.jpg OBJECTS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446990288084-D5TTCKJTGXL02GFA1F0R/Wild%2C+Thief-Taker+General.jpg OBJECTS Wild as "Thief-Taker General," the public front to a private business. NPG d8021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446990721436-0RX00DC250A4TH1JWRHM/Hogarth%2C+Distressed+Poet.jpg OBJECTS William Hogarth, "The Distressed Poet," Detail (1736) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1446994008261-FIO4XVGDX1G4UTVPCU05/LPO+Enquiries.jpg OBJECTS Documenting my visit to London's largest bureaucratized Lost and Found. Photo by Curator (2008). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1449604448601-D5I9TDEJFT3JVP0ZTDW8/Aikman%2C+John+Gay.jpg OBJECTS John Gay, by William Aikman (ca. 1720) (c)c National Portrait Gallery of Scotland, PG718 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1449606098386-INM9MYILYGMD4UCNCIXU/image-asset.jpeg OBJECTS John Gay, by George Bickham, Sr, "A New Deceptio Visus" (ca. 1729). Photo by Curator. Many copies have survived, for instance National Portrait Gallery, NPG D9490. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1449606791686-HXPB0G4RGT2GNMCUIB8E/Gay%2C+BO+TP.JPG OBJECTS Title page to the 1728 edition of The Beggar's Opera. That's John Hippisley as Wild as Peachum on the far right. 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Robert Hooke, Micrographia (London, 1665). Photo by Curator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1436627620817-QOGRVZQMBYCRFKOUY9M7/15+Hay%27s+Stone+TN.jpg SUMMARIES - William Hay's Stone A small flat oval calculus taken after death from the bladder of William Hay, Esq. Specimen A184 © Wellcome Library, London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441309202171-V5Q83VWPD9Z8JF5T60AX/22b+Sterne+TS+6%2C147.jpg SUMMARIES - Blank Paper (I) “Paper ready to your hand,” a cognitive ecology of the simplest sort. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759–1767). Courtesy William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1435605063565-UD4JMZC2GZ86804AUMDZ/1a+Locke%27s+Index+TN.jpg SUMMARIES - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1436623975235-HV02EO7SM90C3MH030ET/4+Hooke%27s+Camera+Obscura.jpg SUMMARIES - A Portable Camera Obscura “An Instrument of Use to take the Draught, or Picture of any Thing,” in Robert Hooke, Philosophical Experiments and Observations (London, 1726). Courtesy University of Michigan Special Collections. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53d7a493e4b04ca0794fecd1/1441309250870-F6DO8VOXVEI40H1XV2P9/29a+RMM878_obv.jpg SUMMARIES - A Splendid Shilling An uncirculated 1701 Shilling, minted in the year of John Phillips's short poem, entitled "A Burlesque of Milton"; it was a first of its kind, a poem about owning not a shilling in the world. 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