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Apes playing with a goldsmith's apparatus. Engraving by Nicolaes de Bruyn, ca 1621.
Date: 1621Reference: 39659i- Pictures
Engraved titlepage to G.B. Cavalieri, 'Opera nela quale vi e molti mostri'. Engraving by G.B. Cavalieri, 1585.
Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1525-1601.Date: 1585Reference: 653162iPart of: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, ca. 1525-1601.- Pictures
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Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.
Stegeren, J. van.Date: [1667 or 1668]Reference: 567722i- Pictures
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A marble tablet sculpted in relief with trophies and ornaments illustrating the magnificence of the ancient Romans. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1761.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1761Reference: 568208i- Pictures
Johann Friedrich Gronovius lecturing on Roman currency at Leiden University, surrounded by other identified scholars. Engraving by A. van Zijlvelt, 1691.
Zijlvelt, Anthony van, approximately 1640-approximately 1695.Date: [1691]Reference: 35581i- Pictures
The entrance to a temple (a portico with an arch) representing access to the Bible. Engraving after John Chantry, 1677.
Date: 1677Reference: 589580i- Pictures
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A physician and a surgeon pointing to herbs in a herb garden; indicating medicine and surgery for the poor. Engraving, 1671.
Dubé, Paul.Date: [1671]Reference: 567827i- Pictures
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis pointing out the length of a degree on the longitude of meridian in Lapland to two people. Etching, 1753.
Date: 1753Reference: 568188i- Pictures
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A man is opening a door to reveal the landscape of China; cherubim playing with a map and a globe showing China as described by Martino Martini. Engraving, ca. 1655.
Martini, Martino, 1614-1661.Date: [1655?]Reference: 567607i- Pictures
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A man consulting a physician who examines a flask of his urine. Engraving, 1644.
Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.Date: 1644Reference: 567598i- Pictures
An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving by Crispijn de Passe, 1626.
Passe, Crispijn van de, -1670.Date: [1626]Reference: 588752i- Pictures
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Sussex Place in Regent's Park, London. Engraving by W. Wallis after T. Shepherd, 1827.
Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer)Date: 5 May 1827Reference: 568227i- Pictures
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A man consulting a physician who is seated behind a table on which is a skull. Engraving, 1652.
Jonstonus, Joannes, 1603-1675.Date: 1652Reference: 567599i- Pictures
Conduct of life: an angel reveals to Dutch citizens a book showing the Last Judgment, which is supported by the skeletons of Adam and Eve; in the background, an ideal country residence. Engraving, 1656.
Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660.Date: [1656]Reference: 20408i- Pictures
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Christopher Columbus and his crew, arriving in America, kneel before the Cross as a priest holds up the Host; native Americans look on. Engraving by J. Knight (the lettering) and by W. Humphrys, 1844, after J.J. Barralet.
Barralet, John James, approximately 1747-1815.Date: 1844Reference: 30004i- Pictures
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The microcosm (man) and the macrocosm (the world). Line engraving by T. de Bry, 1617.
Date: 1617Reference: 2989i- Pictures
A man setting out into a forest to collect resin from conifers. Engraving, 1679.
Axt, Johann Conrad, active 1669-1681.Date: 1679Reference: 588759i- Pictures
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Trephination, preparation of medicines from raw materials, a skeleton, a muscleman and a portrait of A. Paré. Line engraving.
Date: 1649Reference: 22242i- Pictures
Galen treating an athlete by letting blood from his arm. Woodcut, 1541.
Date: 1541Reference: 567360i- Pictures
A baroque monument decorated with Apollo holding a lyre and Aesculapius holding a book and a cockerel; portrait of Johann Freitag the Younger in a roundel on the pediment. Engraving by M. Haffner, 1678.
Freitag, Johann, the Younger, 1587-1654.Date: 1678Reference: 588754i- Pictures
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Copernicus and five other astronomers with astronomical instruments. Engraving by J. Mulder after G. Hoet, 1692.
Hoet, Gerard, 1648-1733.Date: 1692Reference: 567825i- Pictures
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An anatomy theatre with statues of the anatomists Vesalius and Spigelius; a corpse on a table in the background. Engraving, 1672.
Diemerbroeck, Ysbrand van, 1609-1674.Date: 1672Reference: 567802i- Pictures
Above, Alexis of Piedmont and Albertus Magnus; centre, William Harvey and Francis Bacon drawing aside a curtain to reveal secrets; below, Dr. R. Read, Johann Jacob Wecker, Ramon Lull. Etching by R. Gaywood, 1660.
Date: [1660]Reference: 567664i- Pictures
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A doctor (Melchior Sebisch the younger?) seated holding the staff of Aesculapius; a dog, a cockerel, an owl and a dragon next to him. Engraving, 1661.
Date: 1661Reference: 567735i- Pictures
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Athena, Hermes and Apollo; putti holding various objects; calligraphic lettering. Engraving by Johann Ulrich Krauss after G. de Lairesse, ca. 1 (?).
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]Reference: 567794i