Aquarium of Vulcan

  'He that is weak-legg'd must not fall in love with Rome, nor an infirm head with Venice or Paris'. -  Sir Thomas Browne - ...

     An index to essays (2010-2025) and short posts on the late Renaissance humanist, Christian mystic, Hermetic philosopher, Paracelsian ph...

The physician-philosopher Thomas Browne (1605-82) can truly be said to have achieved worldwide fame with his inclusion in the Japanese ...

A Happy Birthday to Kazuo Ishiguro (b. Nov. 8th 1954, Nagasaki) recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. I'm not part...

Recently I had the pleasure of visiting the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia (UEA) for an exhibition org...