[A student runs away from his teacher] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [A student runs away from his teacher]
Subject: Scholars in Literature; Teachers; Fictional Works; Fictitious Characters; Imaginary Places; Imaginary Creatures
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Balnibarbi; England; Lagado; Laputa
Description: During his time on Balnibarbi, Gulliver visited the Grand Academy of Lagado and the scholars who worked there. One scholar was testing a theory that by writing mathematical concepts on a wafer and having the student eat the wafer that the student would then learn the concept by a form of osmosis. The problem, however, was that the ink used caused nausea, and the student would often run-away and vomit.
Image Creator: T. Morten (Engraver)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22073
Language: eng
Source Name: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
Parent Collection: 1865 London Morten
Image: mta_22073_OBJ.png