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the she-philosopher.com LIBRARY

A list of digital typescripts (mostly of rare 17th-century works) and e-texts planned for the LIBRARY is provided below. Annotations for individual entries are accessible through its index of links.

various works having to do with the planting of England’s colony in Virginia
a 1678 textbook for “the women and maidens of London,” written by “one of that sex”
various texts relating to scientific study of the great frost of 1683–4, during which time the River Thames froze solid
Robert Burton’s “Digression of Air,” from Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s metaphysical dreamscape, Primero Sueño
several prefaces and one poem from Margaret Cavendish’s works
2 letters from Walter Charleton to Margaret Cavendish (dated 1654 and 1667)
Thomas Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (1637)
Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s letter to the Royal Society on “the Animals in Semine Masculino Insectorum” (1681)
Part VI (chapters I through V) from Kircher’s China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis ... (1667)
John Pell’s An Idea of Mathematics (1650)
2 publications by William Petty
several discourses by Robert Hooke, with emphasis on his contributions to optics, oceanography, and information design
Richard Waller’s A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours (1686)
Robert Wood’s A Specimen of a New Al-Mon-Ac for Ever (1681)
John Wilkins’ commentary on “the China Character and Language so much talked of in the world,” from An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668)
a series of monographs, intended as companion pieces to the PDF publication, Time, Soul, Memory


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	for the future: the she-philosopher.com LIBRARY A list of digital typescripts (mostly of rare 17th-century works) and e-texts planned for the LIBRARY is provided below. Annotations for individual entries are accessible through its index of links. various works having to do with the planting of England’s colony in Virginia a 1678 textbook for “the women and maidens of London,” written by “one of that sex” various texts relating to scientific study of the great frost of 1683–4, during which time the River Thames froze solid Robert Burton’s “Digression of Air,” from Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s metaphysical dreamscape, Primero Sueño several prefaces and one poem from Margaret Cavendish’s works 2 letters from Walter Charleton to Margaret Cavendish (dated 1654 and 1667) Thomas Hobbes’ A Briefe of the Art of Rhetorique (1637) Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s letter to the Royal Society on “the Animals in Semine Masculino Insectorum” (1681) Part VI (chapters I through V) from Kircher’s China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturæ & artis spectaculis ... (1667) John Pell’s An Idea of Mathematics (1650) 2 publications by William Petty several discourses by Robert Hooke, with emphasis on his contributions to optics, oceanography, and information design Richard Waller’s A Catalogue of Simple and Mixt Colours (1686) Robert Wood’s A Specimen of a New Al-Mon-Ac for Ever (1681) John Wilkins’ commentary on “the China Character and Language so much talked of in the world,” from An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) a series of monographs, intended as companion pieces to the PDF publication, Time, Soul, Memory

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