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Early illustration of 17th-century London's coffeehouse culture
Here's a woodcut illustration that has been regarded as the 'earliest known image of a coffeehouse'. This piece is from 1674 ...
Early foster care gave poor women power, 17th-century records reveal
Having studied the experiences of foster caregivers in the 17th century, University of Cambridge historian Emily Rhodes ...
Saracen's head crest
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The Birth of Modern Cosmology
In the early seventeenth century, Copernicus' concept of a heliocentric universe was further developed by the great German mathematician Johannes Kepler - the first true astrophysicist.
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Early modern to eighteenth-century
play in the medieval and early modern imagination, and in the otherworldly creatures and entities who appear in mountainous and similarly-liminal landscapes throughout this period. Ian’s research ...
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Little-Known Composers of the Early Part of the Seventeenth Century
The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular Vol. 21, No. 449, Jul. 1, 1880 Little-Known Composers of the Early Part... Little-Known Composers of the Early Part of the Seventeenth Century This is the ...