JF Ptak Science Books Post 1805 [Part of the History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things series.]
[Source: Zeno.org.]
As we approach the new political season (where it is always all fours seasons,
simultaneously, and known as “Winsprumerfall”) and where everything is good and
bad, and decent and not, and moral and wanting, and right and wrong so far as the “wrongness” falls upon your opponent, and cloudy and clear, and all at the same time as always, everything all at once, it might serve us well to have an image of Georg Pencz’s
(who I wrote about earlier today, here) Verleumder in mind.
And as we can see and guess, the wood engraving depicts the lying liar, the defamer influencing a value judgment, the slanderer of a fact known to be true and uttered false, a libeler. A cheat of the fact. In times like these, it is always good to listen closely and follow the logic, and then the money. And then fact-check.