EditorialCelestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
EditorialCelestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
EditorialStudy for Jacob Pours Oil upon the Stone at Bethel, Plate 87, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, A man stands in profile ...
EditorialStudy for The Iron Bedstead of King Og, Plate 324, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper, A large, elaborately carved ...
EditorialStudy for The Creation of Light, Plate 3, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, white goauche, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, Scene depicting the creation ...
EditorialStudy for Serpents Sent to Destroy the Sinners, Plate 360, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper, In the foreground a ...
EditorialStudy for Noah's Ark, Plate 40, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and black ink on cream laid paper, A large ship (Noah's Ark) is positioned on a hill in t...
EditorialStudy for the First Plan of Solomon's Temple, Plate 420, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, A group of robed men, pointin...
EditorialStudy for The Temple in Jerusalem, Plate 424, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and gray wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, A temple, within a larger structure with arches...
EditorialStudy for God Appears to Moses and his Companions, Plate 171, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black, and blue wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper, A robed...
EditorialThe Investigation of the Rainbow, design for plate 66 in the Physica Sacra, vol. 1, by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid p...
EditorialStudy for The Fleece of Gideon, Plate 375, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey, black wash, pen and brown, black ink on cream laid paper, A man stands inside an open-air, cir...
EditorialStudy for Abimelech Reproveth Sarah, Plate 81, Physica Sacra, Johann Melchior F?ssli, Swiss, 16771736, Christian Ulrich Wagner, German, 16861763, Brush and grey wash, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper, A group of robed figures congregates in the ce...
EditorialTruth shows a writer the birth of Venus Title page for Opuscula mythologica physica et ethica, 1688, The personification of Truth shows an oval medallion to a woman writing in a book. In the medallion a representation of the birth of Venus. Behind them...
EditorialUrmaterie, Representation of primal matter from the 17th century, Fig. 1, p. 26, 1617, Robert Fludd: Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam divisa. Openhemii:...
EditorialMonsters and natural wonders 5, Fig. 30: Infans cum promuscide, et captibus animalium; Fig. 29: Vitulomonachus, Fig. 31: Monstrum tetrachiron alatum capite humano aurito, Fig. 32: Monstrum triceps capite vulpis, Draconis, et Aquilae, after p. 616, 1667...
EditorialMonsters and natural wonders 3, Fig. 18: Equus cute lacera, Fig. 19: Monstro bicorpor unico capite valde monstroso, after p. 602, 1667, Gaspar Schott: P.Gasparis Schotti [...] physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII [...]. Editio al...
EditorialFiat Lux, Figure for the creation of light from the 17th century, Fig. 2, before p. 49, 1617, Robert Fludd: Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque technica historia in duo volumina secundum cosmi differentiam divisa. Ope...
EditorialTruth shows a writer the birth of Venus Title page for Opuscula mythologica physica et ethica, 1688, The personification of Truth shows an oval medallion to a woman writing in a book. In the medallion a representation of the birth of Venus. Behind them...
EditorialA dissected globe, c.1866. The dissected globe. [London?] : [A. & N. Myers?], [1866?]. The segments form eight cross-sections. Six of these show maps of the continents on their upper surfaces and illustrations with text on their lower surfaces. Physica...
EditorialCelestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
EditorialCelestial globe. A new celestial globe / by Richard Cushee. [London?] : Richard Cushee, 1730. Mounted on a four-legged wooden stand with a brass meridian ring and wooden horizon ring. Forms a pair with Richard Cushee's terrestrial globe, 1730. Physica...
EditorialA dissected globe, c.1866. The dissected globe. [London?] : [A. & N. Myers?], [1866?]. The segments form eight cross-sections. Six of these show maps of the continents on their upper surfaces and illustrations with text on their lower surfaces. Physica...
EditorialHistoriated initial 'Q'(uoniam) of a teacher with students, at the beginning of the Physica. Physical treatises. England; 3rd quarter of the 13th century. Source: Royal 12 G. V, f.4. Language: Latin.
EditorialA dissected globe, c.1866. The dissected globe. [London?] : [A. & N. Myers?], [1866?]. The segments form eight cross-sections. Six of these show maps of the continents on their upper surfaces and illustrations with text on their lower surfaces. Physica...
EditorialA dissected globe, c.1866. The dissected globe. [London?] : [A. & N. Myers?], [1866?]. The segments form eight cross-sections. Six of these show maps of the continents on their upper surfaces and illustrations with text on their lower surfaces. Physica...
EditorialPortrait plate of Thomas Cornelius from "Thom? Cornelii Consentini Progymnasmata physica ... His accessere Eiusdem Authoris Opera qu?dam Posthuma numquam antehac edita." . Thom? Cornelii Consentini Progymnasmata physica. Neapoli Italy 1688. Thom? C...