Virtuoso by nature : the scientific worlds of Francis Willughby FRS (1635-1672) /

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A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royall Society, as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England : whereunto is added the letter of a virtuoso in opposition to the censure, A reply unto the letter aforesaid, and A reply unto the præfatory answer of Ecebolius Glanvill, chaplain to Mr.... by Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676

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Love letters from Italy.

“…Lettera amorosa and other 17th century Italian virtuoso love songs…”
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Adagio /

“…Virtuoso (Universal Music Group)…”
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Reading class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / by Warley, Christopher, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Just Horatio 4. Ideal Donne 5. Virtuoso Donne 6. Uncouth Milton, part one 7. Uncouth Milton, part two.…”
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Temptation in the archives : essays in Dutch Golden Age culture / by Jardine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…Temptation in the archives -- 1688 and all that: some curious consequences of 'going Dutch' -- Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens's longitude clocks -- The reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: networker or virtuoso? -- 'Dear Song': scholarly whitewashing of the correspondence between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea Van Dorp -- The afterlife of Homo Ludens: from Johan Huizinga to Natalie Zemon Davis and beyond -- Appendices.…”
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Jewish theatre making in Mantua, 1520-1650 / by Jaffe-Berg, Erith, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Leone de' Sommi: A Canny Theatrical Intermediary Chapter 4. Simon Basilea: A Virtuoso of Jewish Mantua Chapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter-Reformation Chapter 6. …”
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Jewish theatre making in Mantua, 1520-1650 / by Jaffe-Berg, Erith, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Leone de' Sommi: A Canny Theatrical Intermediary Chapter 4. Simon Basilea: A Virtuoso of Jewish Mantua Chapter 5. Jewish Theatrical Production in the Shadow of the Counter-Reformation Chapter 6. …”
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Temptation in the archives : essays in Golden Age Dutch culture / by Jardine, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER ONE: Temptation in the Archives -- CHAPTER TWO: 1688 And All That: Some Curious Consequences of 'Going Dutch' -- CHAPTER THREE: Never Trust a Pirate: Christiaan Huygens's Longitude Clocks -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Reputation of Sir Constantijn Huygens: Networker or Virtuoso? -- CHAPTER FIVE: 'Dear Song': Scholarly Whitewashing of the Correspondence between Constantijn Huygens and Dorothea Van Dorp -- CHAPTER SIX: The Afterlife of Homo Ludens: From Johan Huizinga to Natalie Zemon Davis and Beyond -- Appendices: I. …”
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Greatest hits 1600-1750

Table of Contents: “…The Baroque Big Band: virtuoso concerti of Bach and Vivaldi (8 musicians). …”

Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / by Corneanu, Sorana

Table of Contents: “…Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as Paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.…”

A song on the Jubile..

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Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760.

Table of Contents: “…Part 1, Loss and retrieval. 1 'Onslow Palace': new evidence of eighteenth-century craft technique at Clandon Park Sophie Chessum ; 2 Piercing the surface: virtuoso wooden staircases from Cassiobury Park and Eyrecourt Castle Mechthild Baumeister and Andrew Tierney ; 3 Fragments of eighteenth-century craftsmanship: the Pearson collection Peter Pearson ; 4 Experiments with historic light in Kensington Palace's early eighteenth-century interiors Lee Prosser ; 5 Retrieving craft practice on the early eighteenth-century building site Melanie Hayes ; 6 Conserving craft in eighteenth-century buildings: the role of the conservation architect Tony Barton -- Part 2, Design and making. 7 The geometry of rustication: an eighteenth-century case study Edward McParland ; 8 The rough and the smooth: stone use in Dublin 1720-60 Patrick Wyse Jackson and Louise Caulfield ; 9 Drawing out a surface in lime and hair Jenny Saunt ; 10 'Agreeable to live in': the wainscoted interior in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland Christine Casey ; 11 A glorious ascent: staircase design, construction and craft in the circle of Richard Castle Andrew Tierney.…”
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Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / by Corneanu, Sorana

Table of Contents: “…Francis Bacon and the art of direction -- An art of tempering the mind -- The distempered mind and the tree of knowledge -- A comprehensive culture of the mind -- The end of knowledge -- The study of nature as regimen -- Cultura and medicina animi: an early modern tradition -- The physician of the soul -- Sources -- Genres -- Utility: practical versus speculative knowledge -- Self-love and the fallen/uncultured mind -- The office of reason -- Passions, errors, and assent -- The discipline, the virtues, and habituation -- Virtuoso discipline -- The cure of the mind and Solomon's house -- Passions, errors, and method -- Idols and diseases of the mind -- Epistemic modesty -- The way of inquiry -- A 'union of eyes and hands': the community and objectivity revisited -- Robert Boyle: experience as paideia -- The limits and the 'perfection' of reason -- The weak mind and the virtues of a free inquiry -- Reason and experience -- The Christian philosopher -- John Locke and the education of the mind -- Limits of reason, useful knowledge, and the duty to search for truth -- A natural history of the distempered mind -- The regulation of assent: a perfecting exercise -- The discourse with a friend -- Studying nature -- Lived physics -- The appropriateness of disproportion -- Experience, history, and speculation -- Affective cognition -- Studying 'God's contrivances' -- The study of theology and the growth of the mind -- Worlds and angels -- Reading scripture -- Conclusion.…”
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Ephemeral print culture in early modern England : sociability, politics and collecting / by Somers, Tim

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Web of nature : Martin Lister (1639-1712), the first arachnologist / by Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…The Move to London; Part Three At the Web's Center: Lister in London, the Royal Society, and the Production of Masterworks: 1684-1692; Chapter Eleven Lister's London Beginnings: Virtuoso, Antiquarian, and Benefactor; 1. Introduction.…”
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Transformations of love : the friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin / by Harris, Frances

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Reading Class Through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton / by Warley, Christopher, 1969-

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Imperfect creatures : vermin, literature, and the sciences of life, 1600-1740 / by Cole, Lucinda

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