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Descartes in Amsterdam
‘…I could live here all my life without ever being noticed by a soul. I take a walk each day amid the bustle of the crowd with as much freedom and repose as you obtain in your leafy groves, and I pay...
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skimming stones in the archive
Book after book after book has been written about Descartes. But of the woman who knew him, Helena Jans, almost nothing is known. I have come across only three instances of her name in the archive –...
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Mapping 17thC Amsterdam
Joan Blaeu was a mapmaker, and lived in seventeenth century Alkmaar and Amsterdam. Blaeu’s map of Amsterdam, is an extraordinary work. His maps of Deventer, Leiden and Amersfoort were key research...
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