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Mercator size vs. true country size
by Neil Kaye

Here's one for the medievalists and early modernists.

Eadmer's Historia novorum in Anglia, written in the 12th century, first saw print under the editorial care of the great John Selden in 1623.

The Harry Ransom Center's copy preserves the entirely standard, unassuming boards of its original 17th-century binding.

The title-page, though, reveals it to be a special copy, indeed:

At the top, the poet and playwright Ben Jonson has inscribed it w/ his Senecan motto, Tanquam Explorator.

At bottom, Jonson has written his name w/ a note that the copy was given to him by "its very erudite and famous editor."

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For anyone wishing to read John Milton’s great English language epic poem “Paradise Lost,” or who have perhaps once read it but didn’t quite understand it, this recent New Books Network / Writ Large #podcast featuring Zachary Davis interviewing Prof. Erik Gray about #Milton, the poem, and its #history provides an excellent introduction and overview well suited to all interested. https://newbooksnetwork.com/on-john-miltons-paradise-lost #bookstodon #literature #poety #earlymodern

Love this article by the brilliant
@HaggardHawks on Twitter. As a proud word-nerd, learning "new" old #words is hugely exciting, and I thoroughly endorse the idea of reviving "flapdoodler" and "hogamadog," among others. Thank you, Paul.
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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/04/as-a-child-the-gift-of-a-dictionary-sparked-my-love-of-rare-words-which-snowballed-like-a-hogamadog?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other