The Anatomy of Melancholy
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The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621 but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.
Allegorical frontispiece to the 1628 third edition, engraved by Christian Le Blon
Portrait of Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, 1635
Democritus
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Democritus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. Democritus wrote extensively on a wide variety of topic
The Anatomy of Melancholy
…to make points or explain topics. Burton wrote it under the pseudonym Democritus Junior as a reference to the Ancient Greek "laughing philosopher" Democritus. The Anatomy of Melancholy inspired several writers of the following centuries, such as Enlightenment figures like Samuel Johnson and modern authors…
A philosopher, possibly Democritus. Casting of e Villa of the Papyri.
Democritus Among the Abderites by François-André Vincent, 1791
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Cheerful Democritus, 1746.
2020 bust of Democritus presented to the International Atomic Energy Agency by Greece