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  • Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A woman painting a Roman temple is taught the use of scientific instruments by another woman; representing Geometry assisting Perspective. Stipple engraving.
  • Figures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • A seated figure of Time holding a scythe and an hourglass with a female figure of Geometry holding dividers and a female figure resting a book on her knee. Red chalk drawing.
  • A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.
  • A middle-aged man giving a geometry lesson to young woman, a young man [her suitor?] hides behind a large globe. Coloured lithograph.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.
  • An academy in which men discuss the branches of study required in the education of artists: the antique, anatomy, perspective and geometry Engraving by N. Dorigny, 1728, after Carlo Maratta.
  • A woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry in two books, concerning mechanical powers [and] motions : being one of the most easie, pleasant, useful, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks ... / By J. Wilkins.
  • Mathematicall magick. Or, the wonders that may be performed by mechanicall geometry. In two books. Concerning mechanicall powers [and] motions. Being one of the most easie, pleasant, usefull, (and yet most neglected) part of mathematicks. Not before treated of in this language / By I[ohn] W[ilkins] M.A.
  • Architecture: various roof geometries. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof geometries. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Architecture: various roof geometries. Engraving by E. Turrell, 1847.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Mathematics: a graph-plotting machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • A mathematician, using dividers to measure a diagram on a piece of paper. Engraving.
  • A mathematician using dividers to draw geometrical shapes on a tablet. Engraving by N. Cavalli after G.B. Piazzetta.
  • Building: plan, elevation, and diagrams of a circular staircase. Etching, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
  • Building: plan, elevation, and diagrams of an arch. Etching, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
  • Architecture: various details of staircase design. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Science: the engraved titlepage to the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Engraving by B.L. Prevost, 1772, after C.N. Cochin, the younger, 1765.
  • Architecture: an ionic volute and various types of moulding. Engraving by A. Bell.