Wellcome Collection
Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Engraving by W. Hollar after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.
RembrandtHarmenszoon van Rijn,
Lettering: Democritus: Heraclitus: I laugh at this madd world: :But I do weepe / That brainsick mortalls such a coyle shuld keepe. W. Hollar sculp.
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