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True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 1.
Gilles Macé
Illustration of the constellations as they relate to the path of the three comets seen over Europe in 1618.
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True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 3.
Gilles Macé
Dedicatory inscription where Macé dedicates this book to one Alexandre de Faulcon.
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True Discourse of the Admirable Appearances, Movements, and Meanings of the Prodigious Comet of the Year 1618. With Demonstrations of its Celestial Location, Grandeur, and Distance from the Earth. Image 4.
Gilles Macé
Diagram showing angles from the Earth to the comets at different positions. Stars indicate the comets and the circle depicts the viewer's location on Earth. Pg 25.
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 2.
Albrecht Dürer
Diagram demonstrating the concept of symmetry and angles to preface a discussion on human proportions.
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 3.
Albrecht Dürer
Diagram showing male proportions. Front and side.
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 5.
Albrecht Dürer
Diagrams of male armspan from the front and rear.
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 6.
Albrecht Dürer
Image of female bodies from the front and side (left). Disproportioned male bodies with extra long limbs from the front and side (right).
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 7.
Albrecht Dürer
Disproportioned male bodies with extra long limbs from the front and side (left). Disproportioned female bodes with extra long limbs from the front and side (right).
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 8.
Albrecht Dürer
Diagrams showing different perspectives of rectangular boxes and cubes.
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Four Books on Human Proportions. Image 9.
Albrecht Dürer
Diagrams of the proportions of the human face from different angles.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 1.
Orance Fine
Diagram of triangulating time-telling device. Pg 70.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 2.
Orance Fine
Map/diagram describing how to tell time using the constellations. "Arc of the hours." Pg 74.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 3.
Orance Fine
Design and dimensions of time-telling instrument. Pg 82.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 4.
Orance Fine
Decorated version of time-telling device. Pg 87.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 5.
Orance Fine
The horizontal figure of the hour indicating hours from west to latitude 48 degrees and 40 minutes delineated. Pg 101.
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On Solar Clocks and Quadrants. Image 6
Orance Fine
The figure of a circular clock, depicted at the altitude of the sun, at a width of 48 degrees and 40 minutes, is depicted. Pg 132.
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