Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Celestial and Earthly Bodies

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Natural & Moral Philosophy, ca. 1680

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Limbourg Brothers, Très riches heures

du Duc de Berry, month of July.

ca. 1412-1416.

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Bartolomeu Velho, Figura dos corpos celestes, 1568 5

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Nicholas Copernicus, On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, 1543

“The book nobody read.” 6

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Frontispiece, 1666 Version of the Rudolphine Tables, MIT Special Collections

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Frontispiece, Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543 14

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Andreas Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica, 1543

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Conrad Gessner, Iconoes Animalium, 1553

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Ambroise Paré, Oeuvres, 1580 MIT Museum Copy

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A. Paré, Animal

Monstrosities

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A. Paré, Human Monstrosities

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