The New Books Network History of Science podcast channel recently released an interview by Dr. Morteza Hajizadeh of Dr. Laura R. Kremmel about her 2022 book “Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination; Morbid Anatomies.”
The phrase “here there be dragons,” so famously seen on old maps indicating places where there were great and mysterious dangers to be found, was not so very long ago not simply a metaphor. In fact, no less an authority on natural philosophy (what would later become known as natural history) than Linnaeus himself included […]
I’m not about to pretend that I presently know much about Edward Lhwyd. However even from the little I’ve learned recently, it has become very clear to me that he is most certainly someone about whom I wish to know more – much more, in fact. After all, as a naturalist myself who harbors interests in both antiquarian studies as well as philology, how could I not wish to know more about the life someone from the seventeenth century who was an enthusiastic botanist as a child, attended Oxford University where he spent considerable time in its Botanical Garden, and through diligent study and work was eventually appointed the second keeper of the then newly established Ashmolean Museum?
Should anyone one day tell me that I don’t know my ass from Medieval history, in a very short time from now I shall be able to reply with confidence that thanks to having read Dr. Kathryn L. Smithies’ “Introducing the Medieval Ass” I most certainly do.