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Sanctuarium profanis occlusum, sive, De SS. Bibliorum prohibitione in lingua vulgari seu vernacula tractatus; Gallice primum conscriptus anno 1651 ... Nunc Latine prodit in Germania
When the Bible Was on the Index...
Yes, it’s true. The Catholic Church prohibited its believers from reading vernacular translations of biblical texts. At the time, they thought they had good reasons for it. We present a book that summarises these reasons.
Stedman’s Nachrichten von Surinam und von seiner Expedition gegen die rebellischen Neger in dieser Kolonie in den Jahren 1772 bis 1777. Ein Auszug aus dem Englischen Original. (Neuere Geschichte der See- und Land-Reisen, Achter Band.) (English: “Stedman’s Narrative of Surinam and of his Expedition against the Revolted Negroes in this Colony in the years 1772 to 1777”. )
Five Years in Surinam – The Horrors of Slavery
In the 1770s, Scottish soldier John Stedman travelled to South America to suppress a slave uprising in a Dutch colony. His account of the atrocities inflicted on the slaves there sent shock waves throughout Europe.
Abhandlung vom Geld(= Treatise on Money)
Guillotine the Statistician!
What does it take to invent statistics? Well, a huge amount of data and a fussy character. Johann Heinrich Waser was fussy and unscrupulous enough to make use of methods that weren’t legally impeccable to obtain data. But was that the actual reason for his execution?
