Tag: William Cullen
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Discovering a Robert Adam Fireplace and maybe David Hume
The one about the Eighteenth century fireplace designed by Scotsman Robert Adam, sitting quietly in a north-facing drawing room of the oldest house in Queens Street in Edinburgh’s New Town. Philosopher and all round good egg David Hume may have stood ‘right there’ in the 1770s. Makes me giddy. Read.
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Dr Smellie’s Treatise and Anatomical Tables
When one first sees William Smellie’s personal library, an Eighteenth century collection of 300+ volumes, stacked nicely into 24 shelves…it’s a little overwhelming. It’s a lot of books. Yes, but it’s dwarfed by Sir Walter Scott’s personal library at Abbotsford House, near Melrose, for example. That’s huge and almost unreal,…