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  • Hieronymi Cardani ... In Cl. Ptolemaei Pelvsiensis IIII de astrorum iudicijs, aut, ut uulgò uocant, Quadripartitae constructionis libros commentaria, quae non solum astronomis & astrologis, sed etiam omnibus philosophiae studiosis plurimum adiumenti adferre poterunt. Nunc primùm in lucem aedita. Praeterea eiusdem Hier. Cardani geniturarum XII et avditv mirabilia et notatu digna, & ad hanc scientiam recte exercendam obseruatu utilia, exempla. Atque alia multa quae interrogationibus et electionibus praeclarè seruiunt uanáque à ueris rectè secernunt. Ac denique eclipseos, quam grauissima pestis subsecuta est, exemplum / [Ptolemy].
  • Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano, tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui et natura animalum. Eiusdem Gyllii liber unus de gallicis et latinis nominibus piscium / [Claudius Aelian].
  • Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy). Woodcut by T. Stimmer, 1587.
  • Claudius Ptolemaeus [Ptolemy]. Line engraving.
  • Astronomy: Ptolemy and Euclid with an armillary sphere between them. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: Ptolemy and Johannes Regiomontanus, seated with an armillary sphere and the heavens above them. Process print, 1879, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Aristotle and Ptolemy discuss with Copernicus their respective views on the movements of the Sun and the Earth. Engraving, 1663, after S. Della Bella, 1632.
  • Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741, after by P. Langendijk, 1715.
  • Saint Praxedes (Praxedis) and Saint Pudentiana mopping up the blood of a female martyr. Engraving.
  • Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.