Benefaction Book / en William Musgrave (1655–1721): An Early Modern Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Natural Philosopher, Physician, and Antiquary /node/2344 William Musgrave (1655–1721): An Early Modern Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Natural Philosopher, Physician, and Antiquary William Poole Issue number (2021): 16 Notes category William Musgrave Library Antiquarian BT3.214.14 BT3.215.1 Library Benefactors' Book Benefaction Book Ï㽶ֱ²¥ history

William Musgrave donated to the college library the Philosophical Transactions for 1683–87 in four volumes. The Oxford bookseller Richard Davis also presented the Philosophical Transactions for its inception in 1665 up to 1677. The two gifts were probably synchronised. 

 

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16NCN7 (2021) Poole on Musgrave.pdf664.96 KB ]]> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 21:05:10 +0000 Christopher 2344 at A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) /node/2342 A Changing World: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia from 1544—BT3.187.1(2) William Shire Issue number (2021): 16 Notes category Library Antiquarian BT3.187.1(2) Sebastian Münster John Owen Library Benefactors' Book BT3.187.1(1) Albert Krantz Benefaction Book

Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) may be an attempt to describe all knowledge, but this knowledge becomes less and less exact the further one travels from Münster’s German homelands. As the descriptions focus on the faraway lands of Asia and Africa, monstrous races appear. 

 

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