Today in Philadelphia -- 250th anniversary commemoration of financier of the American Revolution Haym Salomon h/t @lauraleibman.bsky.social haymsalomon250.org/why-when-whe...

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Justus Lipsius, influential Flemish philosopher & humanist, author of De Constantia, born #OTD 1547; depicted in Rubens’ Four Philosophers (1611), with artist, brother & third pupil under bust of Seneca. Upper right, in Zoffany’s Tribune of Uffizi 1772-8. Gallerie degli Uffizi | Royal Collection ALT

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Remembering Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born #OTD 1910 won the Nobel Prize in physics (1983). www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi... He is one of 34 Nobel Prize Laureates who were members of Trinity College Cambridge. www.trin.cam.ac.uk/fellows/nobe...

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Two teaching texts recycled in the binding of this legal MS: Peter of Spain's Summulae logicales and Alexander of VillaDei's Doctrinale, both from 14th-c copies (@ubleipzig.bsky.social, MS 871) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:b...

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The entire manuscript with the Aernout van Buchell drawing of the Swan Theatre (as described by Johannes de Witt) is online! objects.library.uu.nl/reader/1874-...

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