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"Kitchen scene, with Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary in the background" is of an oil painting created by Joachim Bueckelaer in 1569. It shows a woman standing in the foreground holding a leg of meat amidst a kitchen. There are vegetables on…
Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem (‘Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel, / quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel’) in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
The word "Melancholy" from "The Anatomy of Melancholy" title page, 1628 edition.
A synopsis of the first partition, which explains the causes and symptoms of common melancholy.
A picture of the Great Chain of Being used during the Renaissance to sort and categorize different foods.
A synopsis of the second partition, which describes the cures of common melancholy.
A front view of the Jack London Exhibit commemorating the 100-year anniversary of London's death on November 22, 1916.
Picture of a display case with an inscription from Jack London to his wife Charmian in The Turtles of Tasman, the last book published before his death, October 1916.
Jack London's instructions for the disposal of his body, October 28, 1911.
A letter of condolence to Jack's widow, Charmian, from George Brett, December 2, 1916.
A certified copy of Jack London's death certificate from Sonoma County, California, November 22, 1916.
Credo on exhibit panel attributed to Jack London by a reporter who visited the American author just weeks before his death on November 22, 1916.
An inscription from Jack London to his wife, Charmian, in The Turtles of Tasman, the last book published before his death, October 1916.
Still image of an entry in "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
This page describes Cogan's beliefs concerning the health benefits of water. In this passage Cogan cites both the Bible and ancient medical scholars when he claims water the most important beverage.
