Angel food cake's origins can't quite be pinned down. Its history stretches from the Victorian era to the culinary traditions of enslaved Black Americans.
As a true man of the Enlightenment, in his parlor at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson had portraits of the persons whom he considered the three greatest men who had ever lived: Sir Francis Bacon, Sir Issac Newton, and John Locke. There is a vast amount of specialized interdisciplinary academic studies on the origins of modern science, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and their roots in esoteric knowledge and occult traditions with the religious, philosophical and political implications which are largely unknown to the general public. These scholarly works have revolutionized and transformed how we view the history of the past 500 years … Continue reading →
1 Swimming and Diving in the Early Middle Ages 2 Aquatic Feats of the Heroes of Sagas and Epic 3 Free-Diving Heroes of Medieval Legend 4 Swimming and Free-Diving in Northern European Histories 9 1 Medieval Salvage Diving in Law and Practice 2 Free-Diving for Pearls in the Middle Ages 3 Free-Diving for Coral in the Middle Ages 4 Dante’s Free-Diver Simile
part 3: The Renaissance Conceptualization of Swimming and Free-Diving 10 1 The Intuition: Italian Treatises on Education in the Humanities 2 The Imprimatur: The Adages of Erasmus 3 The Innovator: Wynman’s Latin Dialogue on How to Swim 11 1 Digby’s Dedication to Richard Wortley 2 Why: Digby’s Rationale for Swimming as an Art