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Sources used and further reading

The following books and articles have been used in preparing this virtual exhibition.

NB Direct links to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries will only work from University of Glasgow IP addresses as this is a subscription database.

Ammonius Hermiae

• Martin, Arnold Hugh. Prosopography of the later Roman Empire (Cambridge: CUP, 1971) Classics RG90 JON
• Sorabji, Richard. The philosophy of the commentators (London: Duckworth, 2004) Philosophy BE60 SOR

Ascham, Roger

• O'Day, Rosemary. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/732 Entry on Roger Ascham [Page accessed 23/3/09]
• Ryan, Lawrence V. Roger Ascham (Stanford: SUP, 1963) English JA15 RYA

Bell, Alexander Graham

• Bruce, Robert V. Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1973) Engineering A20.B35 1973-B
• Burns, R. W. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30680  Article on Alexander Graham Bell. [Page accessed 14/1/09]

Briggs, Henry

• Kaunzner, Wolfgang. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3407?  Entry on Henry Briggs [Page accessed 13/11/08]

Burns, Robert

• Crawford, Robert. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4093?docPos=1 Article on Robert Burns [Page accessed 29/1/11]

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste

• Cole, C.W. Colbert and a century of French mercantilism (Morningside Heights, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 1939) E14 (superscript 2)-g.18 and 19
• Lodge, E.C. Sully, Colbert and Turgot (London: Methuen, 1931)  Store 25292
• Infoplease: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0812825.html  Entry on Jean-Baptiste Colbert  [Page accessed 13/11/08]
• Saunders, E. Stewart. Public Administration and the Library of Jean-Baptiste Colbert Purdue e-Pubs. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/16   Libraries and Culture, 26 (spring) 1991:283-300  [online: accessed 13/11/08].
• Girot, Jean-Eudes. Entry on Jean-Baptiste Colbert http://www.braidense.it/bookbinding/uk/colbert_en.htm [Page accessed 17/2/11]
• Colbert, Jean Baptiste, marquis de Torcy. Bibliotheca Colbertina: seu Catalogus librorum bibliothecae, quae fuit...J.B.Colbert (Paris: Martina and Montalant, 1728) Sp Coll Hunterian Add 49-51
  

Cranmer, Thomas

• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6615  Entry on Thomas Cranmer [page accessed 23/3/09]
• MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer: A Life. (London: Yale University Press, 1996) Theology JD180.C7 MACCU
  Selwyn, David G. The Library of Thomas Cranmer (Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1996). Third Series Volume 1  Store Pm 4021

Curie, Marie

• BBC History. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/curie_marie.shtml  Article on Marie Curie [Page accessed 16/1/09]
• Fullick, Ann. Marie Curie (Oxford, Heinemann Library, 2000) JNF 509.2 FUL
• Reid, Robert William. Marie Curie (London, William Collins, 1974) Gen Sci G9.C87 1974-R
  
• The Official Website of the Nobel Prize: Nobelprize.org.  http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1903/marie-curie-bio.html  Marie Curie - Biography From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1901-1921, (Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Company, 1967) [Page accessed 16/1/09]

De Quincey, Thomas

• Queen's University, Canada: Department of English http://www.queensu.ca/english/tdq/  Article on Thomas De Quincey [Page accessed 19/11/2008]

Dickens, Charles

• Slater, Michael. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7599?docPos=2 Article on Charles Dickens [Page accessed on 6/4/08]

Donne, John

• Colclough, David. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7819?docPos=2   Entry on John Donne [Page accesses 12/11/08]

Flamsteed, John

• Willmoth, Frances. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9669  Entry on John Flamsteed [Page accessed 12/11/08]

Gladstone, William Ewart

• Matthew, H.C.G. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10787  Article on W.E. Gladstone [Page accessed 20/11/08]
• Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council Local History and Heritage Website: Cotton Town: Blackburn with Darwen  http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?LANGUAGE=eng&pageID=4572   Biography of W.E. Gladstone [Page accessed 20/11/08]

Graham, George

• Gause, Artemis. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11191?docPos=2.  Article on George Graham [Page accessed 26/11/08]

Henri de Valois, King of France

• Cameron, Keith. Henri III : a maligned or malignant king? : aspects of the satirical iconography of Henri de Valois (Exeter: University of Exeter, 1978) History LJ520 CAM
• Cameron, Keith. Suetonius, Henri de Valois and the art of political biography http://www.springerlink.com/content/912l2261p7604413/fulltext.pdf
   [Page accessed 28/1/11]

Johnson, Samuel

• BBC History www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/johnson_samuel,shtml. Article on Samuel Johnson [Page accessed on 26/11/08]
• Boswell, James. Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Blackie, [n.d.]) Sp Coll Morris 66

Livingstone, David

• Roberts, A.D. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16803 Article on David Livingstone [Page accessed 20/11/08]

Louis XIV, King of France

• Sturdy, David J. Louis XIV (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 1998) History LK 460 STU

MacKenzie, George

• Kidd, Colin. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17580?docPos=2  Article on George MacKenzie [Page accessed 19/11/08]

Madame de Pompadour

• Mitford, Nancy. Madame de Pompadour (London: H. Hamilton, 1954) History LL350 MIT
• Crosland, Margaret. Madame de Pompadour: sex, culture and power (Stroud: Sutton, 2000) History LL350.P8 CRO
• The National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/learn-about-art/paintings-in-depth/the-real-madame-de-pompadour Article on Madame de Pompadour [Page accessed 1/4/09]

Malebranche, Nicolas

• Schmaltz, Tad. Nicolas Malebranche, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2009/entries/malebranche/. [Page accessed 4/11/08]

Mead, Richard

• Guerrini, Anita. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18467  Article on Richard Mead [Page accessed 13/11/08]

Melanchthon, Philip

• Philipp Melanchthon 500th Anniversary Exhibit http://www.lutheranhistory.org/melanchthon/index.htm Copyright 1997-1998 Concordia Historical Institute web article on Philip Melanchthon [Page accessed 24/3/09]

Perrault, Charles

• Grove, Laurence. Emblematics and seventeenth century French literature: Descartes, Tristan, La Fontaine and Perrault (Charlottesville, Va.: Rockwood, 2000) French C245 GRO

Pliny the Elder

• The Classics pages. Kamm, Anthony: The Romans http://www.the-romans.co.uk/philosophy.htm  Article on Pliny the Elder [Page accessed 24/3/09]

Scott, Sir Walter

• Hewitt, David. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/24928?docPos=2  Article on Sir Walter Scott [Page accessed 20/11/09]
• Crocket, W.S. The Scott Originals: an account of notables and worthies, the originals of characters in the Waverley Novels (Edinburgh: Grant and Murray, 1932)  English MS142 CRO2

Sixtus V, Pope

• Leti, Gregorio. The Life of Pope Sixtus V (London: Bowyer for Bathurst, 1754) Sp Coll T.C.L. f368

Smith, Adam

• Winch, Donald. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25767?docPos=1  Article on Adam Smith [Page accessed 4/11/08]
• Adam Smith Institute www.adamsmith.org/adam-smith/Article on Adam Smith [Page accessed 4/11/08]

Swift, Jonathan

• Cody, David. Jonathan Swift, a brief biography. Article incorporated in The Victorian Web, July 2000 http://victorianweb.org/previctorian/swift/bio.html  [Page accessed 13/11/08]
• Wood, Nigel. Jonathan Swift (New York; London: Longman, 1999) English LS346 WOO2

Tritheim, Johann

• Brann, Noel L. The Abbot Trithemius (1462-1516): the renaissance of monastic humanism (Leiden: Brill, 1981)  Store Theology MSB 187.T7 BRA
• Clulee, N.H. Astronomia inferior: Legacies of Johannes Trithemius and John Dee. (Article in: Newman, William R. and Grafton, Anthony, editors: Secrets of Nature: astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe (Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2001)  Anthrop K690 NEW

Whistler, James McNeill

• The correspondence of James McNeill Whistler: The University of Glasgow http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/jmw/   Biographical notes on James McNeill Whistler [Page accessed 14/1/08]

Wilde, Oscar

• Official Website of Oscar Wilde www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde  Biography of Oscar Wilde [Accessed 20/11/08]
• Dudley Edwards, Owen. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29400 Article on Oscar Wilde [Page accessed 1/2/10]