1490 Milanese, Italian Renaissance portrait of a lady by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis.
Blockbook (ca. 1470)
Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis
Germany, about 1463–67The Morgan library
(via medieval)
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
(via teachingliteracy)
"Jeffrey Beall is a metadata librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, but he’s known online for his popular blog Scholarly Open Access, where he maintains a running list of open-access journals and publishers he deems questionable or predatory. Now, one of those publishers intends to sue Mr. Beall, and says it is seeking $1-billion in damages. The publisher, the OMICS Publishing Group, based in India, is also warning that Mr. Beall could be imprisoned for up to three years under India’s Information Technology Act, according to a letter from the group’s lawyer. Mr. Beall received the letter on Tuesday from IP Markets, an Indian firm that manages intellectual-property rights."
— Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Kultura 040 by bpx on Flickr.
Projekt Monasterium pomohl Národnímu muzeu (von Narodnimuzeum)
"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve."
—
(via scienceisbeauty)
View through a Baroque Colonnade into a Garden, 1760-1768
Canaletto (1697–1768)
Pen and brown ink, black-gray wash in two tones, partly visible perspective construction lines in black pencil
(via booksnbuildings)
Carole Reeves, photograph (1989) of a wall relief at the temple of Kom Ombo in Southern Upper Egypt (1570-1070 BCE). Rights: Wellcome Library, London /Carol Reeves. Image used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
(Quelle: wellcomeimages.org)
