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  • Tibetan cosmology. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • Cosmology and cosmography: planets and the movements of spheres. Coloured etching, 1875.
  • Cosmology and cosmography: planets and the movements of spheres. Coloured etching, 1875.
  • Cosmology: creation of the heaven and the earth. Engraving by G. van der Gouwen after G. Hoet.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
  • Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.
  • Adam looks in wonder at the divine cosmological plan, represented above him in astronomical figures on a scroll; Eve looks at Adam. Etching.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
  • A cosmological plan detailing Copernicus' astronomical vision, surrounded by diagrams of the systems of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe ; astronomical figures line the circle. Line engraving by J.A. Fridrich after J.M. Füssli, 1732.
  • Cornelii Gemmæ lovaniensis medicinæ professoris, De arte cyclognomica, tomi III. Doctrinam ordinvm vniversam, vnaqve philosophiam Hippocratis, Platonis, Galeni, et Aristotelis in vnius communissimæ, ac circularis methodi speciem referentes, quae per animorum triplices orbes ac sphaerae caelestis similitudinem fabricatos, non medicinae tantum arcana pandit mysteria, sed et inveniendis, constituendisque artibus, ac scientiis caeteris viam compendiariam patefecit / [Cornelius Gemma].
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Mosaicall philosophy: grounded upon the essentiall truth or eternal sapience / Written first in Latin, and afterwards thus rendred into English. By Robert Fludd, esq.
  • The churning of the ocean by gods and demons to retrieve the nectar of immortality; below, Lord Vishnu's avatar as Kurma, the tortoise. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Reverse page, An almanack ... for the year 1562
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.