by CCash | Aug 12, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out countries in her. – Comedy of Errors (III.2) Celestial Globe with clockwork, Gerhard Emmoser (fl. 1556–1584) | Austrian, Vienna, Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public...
by CCash | Aug 5, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Public Sanitation Much like infrastructure today, corporate buildings like The Globe would have multiple options for cleaning up the necessary refuse: There’s self cleaning, so the building would have managers and then there’s also municipal workers that worked for...
by CCash | Jul 29, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Both of Galen and Paracelsus. – Alls Well That Ends Well (II.3) PORTRAIT PRESUME DU MEDECIN PARACELSE (1493-1541) | After Quinten Metsys (1456/1466–1530) | Source | Public Domain Whether Paracelsus was formally educated in medicine is a matter of debate among...
by CCash | Jul 22, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The Ardens Were an Important Warwickshire Family The Arden family did not actually live in Stratford Upon Avon, but they would have been well known there. They were an important family in the county of Warwickshire, and Edward Arden’s daughter, Margaret, had...
by CCash | Jun 10, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
Unicorn Horns to Prevent Poisoning The first recorded reference to unicorns comes from Ctesias, who was writing about them in his collection of travel journals. He lives in the 5th century BC, and wrote a total of 23 books recording life and people in India, Persia,...
by CCash | May 27, 2024 | Detailed Show Notes
The Doge of Venice visiting the glass factories of Murano, Italy | 19th century illustration | Biblioteca de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias del Trabajo Universidad de Sevilla | Engraving:François-Pierre-Jean-Désiré Dumont | This file is licensed under...
