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Engravings depicting historical scientific processes, including astronomy, metallurgy, alchemy, and mechanics, reflecting the essence of early scientific exploration.

Fig. CXIII. Haustrum simplex, per funes. Additional, Antlia simplex, per sphæras sum insertas., 1662., Coloniæ Agrippinæ. Publisher, Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Water pumps, Gearing, Troughs, Engravings
Fig. CXIII. Haustrum simplex, per funes. Additional, Antlia simplex, per sphæras sum insertas., 1662., Coloniæ Agrippinæ. Publisher, Sumptibus Pauli Principis, Technempolæi Noribergici. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Water pumps, Gearing, Troughs, Engravings
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Illustration from Theatrum Machinarum Novum 1661 by Georg Andreas Böckler; An automatic mechanical spit roasting device
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Extraction of the filaria from the leg
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An engraving depicting an automaton which made the figures dance using Hero's aeolipile. Dated 19th century
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An engraving depicting a hygrometer. Monk's hood of thin cardboard attached to a piece of catgut at a; when air dry, catgut twisted and raised hood fell. Dated 19th century
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Historic depiction from 1632, representing a pharmacy with herbarium
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An anatomical dissection by Jean Riolan the younger (1580-1657). Engraving of 1649 by Renier van Persyn after a design of 1626 by Crispijn de Passe the second.
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Apothecary, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1836.
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medicine pharmacy chemist's shop in Frankfurt on the Main Germany 1668 after copper engraving,
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SUREZ de RIBERA, Francisco (s.XVIII). Spanish doctor. Illustration of 'Theatro Chyrurgico anatÑmico del cuerpo del hombre viviente, objeto de la cirugÕa y medicina ' (Surgical theatre of the human body). Printed in Madrid in 1729. Scene V, with a depiction of several tumors and membranes. Engraving. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.
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Fig. XXCII. Veruvertebra, per calorem. Bockler, Georg Andreas. Prints, Drawings, Design drawings. 1662. Rare Book Division. Mechanical engineering, Machinery, Mills and mill-work, Gearing, Roasting (Cookery)
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Illustration showing how to make a Candle-Diall, whereby you may know the hours of the night
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Anatomía de las plantas. Grabado de 1687 incluido en el tratado de medicina Opera Omnia, de Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694). Facsimil.
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88. de astrologist; Luken, Caspar (1672-1709), Luken, Jan (1649-1712); 1694 (1694-00-00-1694-00-00);
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superstition giants comparison of length copper engraving ""Mundus subterraneus"" by Athanasius Kircher Amsterdam 1678,
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Sky map for the northern and southern skies performed in Mercator projection, Johannes de Broen, unknown, in or after 1709.
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Facsimile of the frontispiece of Metallotheca, Mercati, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Surgery: instruments for the treatment of cataracts and fistulas of the lacrimal canals. Engraving by R. Benard after Louis-Jacques Goussier.
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Illustration of Aristotelian concept of the path of a projectile. Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. Dated 16th century
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History of Medicine. Saturation of the intestine. Woodcut in Dies ist das Buch Der Chirurgia (This is the Book of Surgery), 15th century. Colored engraving.
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Democritus laughs. The Greek philosopher Democritus is in his office with a globe and laughs.
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History of Medicine. Saturation of the intestine. Woodcut in Dies ist das Buch Der Chirurgia (This is the Book of Surgery), 15th century. Colored engraving.
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Pierre Dionis lecturing on surgery at the Saint-Côme lecture theatre in Paris. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Scotin the younger, 1707.
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Air thermoscope: Sanctorius' (1651-1636) clinical 'thermometer' (1612). One which was globe shaped was place in patient's mouth and the other in a bow of water. The serpentine 'thermometer' was graduated with glass beads. Woodcut
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Engraving depicting a dairy and dairymaid using a piston churn. Dated 18th Century
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Von Guericke's demonstration of the strength of a vacuum, 1654 (1672). Artist: Unknown
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Personifications of sea shipping, geography, astronomy and mathematics for a globe, Harmanus Vinkeles, 1755 - 1800 print  Goes paper etching / engraving 'Navigation' (Ripa). 'Corography', 'Geography', 'Hidrography' (Ripa). 'Geography'. 'Mathematics'; 'Mathematics' (Ripa). 'Astronomy', 'cosmography'; 'Cosmography' (Ripa). globe
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Teaching in the natural sciences by pictorial intuition  /  Unterricht in der Naturwissenschaft durch bildliche Anschauung, 1790, historisch, C:CC5historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Originaldatum nicht bekannt.
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Geber (Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan) (c. 721 - c. 815) Arab polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer. He has been described as "the father of early chemistry" Woodcut 1652
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Man points to a mole trap; The Molleval.
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Laboratory in which Putti mix a liquids.
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Illustration of a hydra monster, from 'medici Tigurini Historiae animalium' Historia animalium 1564; a veterinary anatomical book, by Conradi Gesneri 1516-1567
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Cover of Botanica Pharmaceutica by Andreas Friedrich Happe, Volume IV, 1800, digital reproduction of a historical original, between 1790 and 1810, (Botanica Pharmaceutica by Andreas Friedrich Happe).
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Extraction of metals. Engraving after a woodcut in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia universalis", published in Basel in 1552. Later colouration. "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.
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Astronomer-Astrologer observing celestial objects. Woodcut 1490.
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Tacuinum Sanitatis, Medieval Health Handbook, dated before 1400, based on medical observations detailing the most important aspects of food, beverages and clothing. Picking truffles. Miniature. Fol. 28v.
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astronomy astronomers woocut by Hans Holbein the Younger 1534,
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Anatomical illustration from 'Isagogae breues, perlucidae ac uberrimae, in anatomiam humani corporis a communi medicorum academia usitatam' by Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, Bologna 1523.
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Picture series the preparation of medicinal plants, camphor, Cinnamomum camphoral, preparation in Japan, digitally restored reproduction of a collecti...
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A man reading with the aid of spectacles from OPHTHALMODOULEIA, a 1583 medical treatise on the eyes by Georg Bartisch (1535-1607).
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Illustration showing Sun dog phenomenon depicted in the Nuremberg Chronicle. 1493. This version was associated with the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, formally called a parhelion, (plural Parhelia) in meteorology, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a bright spot to the left or right of the Sun. Aristotle notes that "two mock suns rose with the sun and followed it all through the day until sunset."
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The Parisian surgeon and anatomist A. Velpeau (1795-1867) performing an anatomical dissection. Etching, after F.N.A. Feyen-Perrin, 1864.
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Antwerp, Wale, Peter de (I), Corporis humana anathomia ossium, Human skeleton, On the left the rear view of a human skeleton with images of the signs of the zodiac that are connected to certain parts of the skeleton by banderoles. On the right the front view of a human skeleton with banderoles that show the names of the different bones. In the middle a cartouche with further explanation about the number of bones and their names., print, prints, height 384 mm, width 515 mm, - 1570-04, print maker, printmaker, 1530 - 1530, paper, papier, houtsnede
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Engraving depicting an Arab astronomer, one holding an armillary sphere showing a geocentric universe and the path of the ecliptic, while his companion holds a book of tables. Dated 16th Century
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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.
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Georg Bartisch (1535-1607) was a German physician who was a native of Königsbrück, Saxonia. Despite his skill as a surgeon, Bartisch was a superstitious individual, as he believed that magic, astrology and witchcraft played a significant part in medicine
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Astronomer studies the night sky and falls into a hole. A man with a astronomical measuring instrument in his hand controls the sky at night and steps into a hole with his foot. Next to him amor with arrow sleeve and bow. In the background two couples at a gate and a house. At the top right numbered: 175.
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Amerigo Vespucci discovers the primitive population on the Orinoco Delta, 1590, engraving from the West Indies and American History by Theodore de Bry.
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An alchemist laboratory in the 17th century, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Middle Ages. Astronomer. Engraving.
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Workshop for the manufacture of bronze in ancient Greece, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Neurosurgery, Medical - History
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A Chemist in his Laboratory, Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon, 1734.
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George Agricola (1494-1555) . Book De Re Metallica, 1556. Book VIII. Extract the metals. Engraving by Basilius Weffring. Color.
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Engraved portrait of Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) a Dutch physician; mathematician; cartographer; philosopher; and instrument maker. Dated 16th Century
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 A monstrous fish is washed up  on the English coast.  The  natives waste no time cutting  it up for its meat.      Date: 1555
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 CEPHEUS, named after a king of  Ethiopia or Palestine, husband  of Cassiopeia and father of  Andromeda.      Date: 1681
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Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
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The Cabalistic analysis of the mind and the senses, attributing different functions to different regions of the brain. From "Utriusque cosmi...historia" by Robert Fludd (Oppenheim, 1617-1619) Engraving
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The Small Physicist and The Vain Physicist, 1887. Artist: Gaston Tissandier
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Series the Planets and their Legendary Persons, Mars, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a Liebig collector's picture from c. 1900
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DEMOCRITUS (460-370 BC). Greek philosopher, theoretician of the atomism. Etching. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. National Library.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), Dutch pioneer microscopist.  Title page of 'Microscopium' by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, third edition, (Leyden, 1708). Leeuwenhoek was one of the first to recognise cells in animals and to give the first accurate description of microbes and spermatzoma and blood corpuscles.
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Chapter page design for the Pleistocene Epoch. The creation of man. Man Dominates the World. From The World Before Man, vintage engraving, 1880.
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France - 13th century - Albertus Magnus, On the Nature of Things (De Natura Rerum). Illuminated manuscript from Saint-Amand Abbey. Folio 192, recto: Planets book
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Lyceum of anatomy in the old university of Bologna, reproduction of a woodcut publication from the year 1888, Bologna, Italy, Europe
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