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May 8 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Recent Acquisition:
Athenian Sport or Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued To Amuse and Divert the Age by John Dunton, 1707
Paradoxes can be traced back to Zeno in ancient Greece, and Dunton’s work is arguably the culmination of the English paradox tradition which began with Donne, was furthered by Browne, and then reached its largest and most entertaining form in Dunton before quietly fading out