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Leopoldo de' Medici
Summary: {{Template}} '''Leopoldo de' Medici''' (6 November 1617 – 16 November 1675) was an Italian [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]], scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena. He was the...
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Tracery
Summary: {{Template}} In architecture, '''Tracery''' is the stonework elements that support the glass in a [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] window. The term probably derives from the 'tracing floors' on...
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Repoussé and chasing
Summary: {{Template}} '''Repoussé''' is a [[metalworking]] technique in which a [[malleable]] [[metal]] is ornamented or shaped by [[hammer]]ing from the reverse side to create a design in [[low...
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Conch
Summary: {{Template}} '''Conch''' is a [[common name]] that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized sea [[snail]]s or their [[gastropod shell|shells]]. The term generally applies to...
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Ductility
Summary: {{Template}} In [[materials science]], '''ductility''' is a solid material's ability to deform under [[Tension (physics)|tensile]] stress; this is often characterized by the material's ability...
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Daniel Rabel
Summary: {{Template}} '''Daniel Rabel''' (1578 - 3 January 1637 [[Paris]]) was a Renaissance French painter, engraver, miniaturist, botanist and natural history illustrator. He was the son of Jean...
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Theatrum Florae
Summary: {{Template}} The "''[[Theatrum Florae]]''" by [[Daniel Rabel]] was originally published in Paris in 1622, with later editions in 1627 and 1633, and was a...
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Nicolas Robert
Summary: {{Template}} '''Nicolas Robert''' (18 April 1614 – 25 March 1685) was a French [[Illuminated manuscript|miniaturist]] and [[engraver]]. He was born in [[Langres]] and died in Paris....
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Emanuel Sweert
Summary: {{Template}} '''Emanuel Sweert''' (1552–1612) was a Dutch painter and nurseryman noted for his publication in 1612 at [[Frankfurt-am-Main]] of ''Florilegium Amplissimum et...
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Tulip mania
Summary: {{Template}} '''Tulip mania''' or '''tulipomania''' ([[Dutch language|Dutch]] names include: ''tulpenmanie, tulpomanie, tulpenwoede, tulpengekte'' and ''bollengekte'') was a period in the...
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List of florilegia and botanical codices
Summary: {{Template}} '''A timeline of illustrated botanical works to 1900'''. ==BC== * c2800BC ''[[Shennong Ben Cao Jing|Ben Cao Jing]]'' [[Shennong]] * ''[[Enquiry into Plants]]'' [[Theophrastus]]...
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Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Summary: {{Template}} Page[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Borelli_-_lim_joints_(De_Motu_Animalium).jpg] of one of the first works of [[Biomechanics]] ([[De Motu Animalium]] of...
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Movement of Animals
Summary: {{Template}} :''[[De motu animalium (disambiguation)]]'' '''''Movement of Animals''''' (or ''On the Motion of Animals'' or ''De Motu Animalium'') is a text by [[Aristotle]] on the general...
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De motu animalium (disambiguation)
Summary: {{Template}} '''''[[De motu animalium]]''''' (''Movement of Animals'') is a treatise by Aristotle. Later works using the same title (not including numerous commentaries on the Aristotelian...
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I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man
Summary: {{Template}} :"I am a [[sick]] man. ... I am a [[spiteful]] man." That is the [[opening line]] of [[Fyodor Dostoyevsky]]'s ''[[Notes from Underground]]'' ([[1864]]), to which Dostoyevsky adds...
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Invalid
Summary: {{Template}} '''Invalid''' may refer to: * [[Patient]], a sick person * An archaic, [[Political correctness|politically incorrect]] term for a person with a [[disability]] * [[.invalid]], a...
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Category mistake
Summary: {{Template}} A '''category mistake''', or '''category error''', is a [[semantic]] or [[ontology|ontological]] error in which "things of one kind are presented as if they belonged to another",...
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Prestongrange House
Summary: {{Template}} '''Prestongrange House''' is a [[historic house]] at [[Prestongrange]] near [[Prestonpans]], [[East Lothian]], [[Scotland]], [[UK]]. It is situated near to two other [[historic...
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Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings
Summary: {{Template}} A number of [[Scotland|Scottish]] houses and castles built between 1540 and 1640 have painted ceilings. This is a distinctive national style, though there is common ground with...
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December 17, 2012
Summary: {{Template}} Two [[chimerical]] creatures, both with [[ptosis|drooping breasts]], watched over by three disembodied [[grotesque mask]]s, after Arent van Bolten. It's been quite difficult to...
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