. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. THE MOKTAL3AN TOWER. (Pen drawing. Heseltine Collection.) AMSTERDAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 6i has seldom been witnessed in the history of nations. Strangerswere deeply impressed by its activity, as i3escartcs, whose positiongave him every opportunity for observation, duly records. Thephilosopher, as is well known, visited Holland for the first time in1617, and afterwards lived there for ten years. His first sojourn, then,was at Amsterdam, from 1629 to 1632. Delighted with the facilitiesafforded him for his studies, he lived in absolute retire
. Rembrandt : his life, his work, and his time. THE MOKTAL3AN TOWER. (Pen drawing. Heseltine Collection.) AMSTERDAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 6i has seldom been witnessed in the history of nations. Strangerswere deeply impressed by its activity, as i3escartcs, whose positiongave him every opportunity for observation, duly records. Thephilosopher, as is well known, visited Holland for the first time in1617, and afterwards lived there for ten years. His first sojourn, then,was at Amsterdam, from 1629 to 1632. Delighted with the facilitiesafforded him for his studies, he lived in absolute retirement, givinghimself up to abstruse speculation and scientific research. Anatomvoccupied him for a whole winter, and his butcher furnished him withportions of animals to dissect at leisure. On other occasions hemade friends with the manufacturers of spectacle-glasses, and devotedhimself to the study of optics. He exchanged ideas with savants on. VIEW OF THE ZUYDEKKERK. (Facsimile of a contemporary the subject of acoustics, or collected seeds of exotics from thebotanical ofardens of the neio;hbourinQr Universities for transmissionto France. It was an Ideal retreat for an inquirer of Descartess tastes, ami thebustling life around him made his seclusion all the more a letter to M. de Balzac, dated May 5, 1631, he expresses hisamazement at the scene of which he was a spectator. In this vastcity, where I am the only man not engaged in trade, every one is sobusy money-making, that I might spend my whole life in comj^jletesolitude. He extols the advantages and resources of his domicile,and adds, in further evidence of his appreciation: Seeing howpleasant it is to watch the growth of fruits in our orchards, can you notconceive the interest with which one hails the arrival of ships freighted 62 REMBRANDT with all the rarities of Europe, and all the treasures of the Indies?In what other country in the world are b
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