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Tableau élémentaire de la séméiotique ou de la connaissance des signes de la maladie. / Par J.L. Victor Broussonet.
Broussonet, J. L. Victor (Jean Louis Victor), 1771-1846 or 1847.Date: VI. R. F. [1797/98]- Pictures
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Doctrine of signatures: (above) a plant (dracunculus, tarragon) with seed-pods resembling the fangs of a snake, and (below) the head of a snake. Coloured ink drawing by C. Etheridge, 1906, after G.B. Della Porta.
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.Date: 1906Reference: 525029i- Books
Speculum imaginum veritatis occultæ, exhibens symbola, emblemata, hieroglyphica, ænigmata. Omnitam materiæ, quam formæ varietate; exemplis simul, ac præceptis illustratum / authore R.P. Jacobo Masenio, è Societate Jesu.
Masen, Jakob, 1606-1681.Date: 1681- Pictures
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The word 'SIDA' linked within a chain of male and female symbols representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by Coprecos, Peru. Colour lithograph by Paco San Martin, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 679175i- Books
The showglobe : a beacon through time / by Ernst W. Stieb.
Stieb, Ernst Walter, 1929-2015.Date: 1986- Pictures
Exeat signs of the Ding army. Four carved and painted signs.
Date: [Ch'ing dynasty, i.e. 1644/1911]Reference: 47110i- Pictures
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A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
Reference: 16218i- Pictures
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A wizard performing spells in his den. Wood engraving by S. Millar after himself.
Millar, Stephen.Reference: 37969i- Books
Seikimatsu to mappō / katachi no Bunkakai hen.
Date: 2000- Books
De symbolica Aegyptiorvm sapientia, in qua symbola, parabolae, historiae selectae, quae ad omnem emblematum, aenigmatvm hieroglyphicorum cognitionem viam praestant / Autore Nicolao Caussino Trecensi è Soc. Iesv.
Caussin, Nicolas, 1583-1651.Date: Anno 1631- Books
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The interpretation of dreams and moles : with other curious matters, relating to love and courtship.
Date: [1805?]- Pictures
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Two circular charts showing the configuration of the stars with the Hebrew alphabet. Engraving.
Reference: 33503i- Pictures
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The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 16055i- Books
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Esoptron astrologikon. Astrologicall opticks. : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512.Date: [1655]- Books
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Esoptron Astrologikon. Astrological opticks : Wherein are represented the faces of every signe, with the images of each degree in the zodiack: thereby describing, 1. The nature and quality of every person, according to the degree ascending in the east at his nativity. 2. The virtue and signification of every planet through the 12. signes. 3. A most excellent description of the more hidden and abstruse influence of [symbol for Mercury] in his [symbol for conjunction] with all other the planets. 4. A clear explanation of the signification of the horoscope in any signe of the zodiack. / Compiled at Venice, by those famous mathematicians, Johann. Regiomontanus and Johannes Angelus.
Angelus, Johannes, 1463-1512Date: [1655]- Pictures
A red road weaving through various shapes and symbols. Watercolour and gouache by Anthony Pleasance, 1966.
Pleasance, Anthony, active approximately 1966.Date: 30.9.66 [30 September 1966]Reference: 3015998iPart of: Adamson Collection- Pictures
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A wizard casting spells from his magic circle by the light of his cauldron surrounded by creatures. Engraving by J. Wood, 1763, after J. Collins..
Collins, John, approximately 1725-1758 or 1759.Date: 1763Reference: 37879i- Pictures
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Male and female symbols engaged in a variety of unsafe and safe activities; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Colour lithograph, 1987.
Date: 1987Reference: 678974i- Pictures
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A conjurer casting spells with his wand and fire surrounded by a kneeling man and demons within the magic circle. Engraving by J. Brown after W.M. Craig, 1813.
Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.Date: 1st May 1813Reference: 37887i- Books
Symbols and myths of medicine : staff of Asclepius, staff of Hermes/Mercury (Caduceus) / Jerry W. Martin.
Martin, Jerry W.Date: [2016]- Pictures
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Two personified male and female symbols, the male wearing a condom with a rope bearing the label 'de sexo seguro'; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas and Centro Nacional de Educacion para la salud Ministerio de Salud Publica, Cuba. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
Date: [1996?]Reference: 679132i- Archives and manuscripts
M0004786: Tectiform symbols in the Cave of Altamina
Date: 29 September 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/79Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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White male and female symbols on red arranged as if the right side of a clock with the male symbol as the hands; with a message in Portuguese about how AIDS is transmitted through [unprotected] sexual contact; an advertisement by the Comissào Nacional Luta Contra la SIDA, Ministério de Saúde. Colour lithograph by Latina, ca. 1995.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 676088i- Books
Islamic symbols and Sufi rituals for protection and healing : religion and magic in the writings of Ahmad ibn Ali al-Buni (d. 622/1225) / by Edgar Walter Francis IV.
Francis, Edgar Walter, 1969-Date: 2005- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004787: Tectiform symbols from Breuie's La Caverne d'Altamina, 1906
Date: 29 September 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/38/80Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive