Ane Ballat of the Fenyeit Frier of Tungland, How He Fell in the Myre Fleand to Turkiland is a comic, satirical poem in Scots by William Dunbar composed in the early sixteenth century. The title may be
Stirling Castle viewed from the South.
Recommended points for bloodletting from the text Feldbuch der Wundarznei of 1517.
An alchemist's laboratory depicted in an engraving of 1595. (Hans Vredeman de Vries)
Daedalus and Icarus
John Damian
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John Damian de Falcuis was an Italian at the court of James IV of Scotland. His attempts at medicine, alchemy, flying, and his advancement by the king encouraged a satirical attack by the poet William
John Damian tried to fly from Stirling Castle