Hacker News with Generative AI: 17th Century

The Hartlib Papers (dhi.ac.uk)
Samuel Hartlib (c1600-62), a great seventeenth-century 'intelligencer' and man of science, set out to record all human knowledge and make it universally available for the education of all mankind.

History, Science, Education, 17th Century

25 points by sebg 32 days ago | 3 comments

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes (publicdomainreview.org)
The feast laid out is lavish, but the table is so overladen, there is no space to dine. This is the somewhat absurd scenario staged by the tablescapes of Dutch banquet still life paintings.

Art History, 17th Century, Netherlands, Painting, Still Life

24 points by prismatic 90 days ago | 13 comments