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6 results containing "Book illustrations--1640-1650."

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• 1.
  #gallery 2004682213

  [Hero's miraculous altar]
  [1647] | 1 print | Hero, of Alexandria.
  Illus. in QC143 .H527 1647 (Rare Bk Coll) [Rare Book RR] | LC-USZ62-110278 (b&w film copy neg.)

• 2.
  #gallery 2005694896

  Tavolette, e Libri per li putti
  [1646] | 1 print | Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609
  Illus. in NC1155.C3 (Case Y) [P&P] | LC-USZC2-6495 (color film copy slide)

• 3.
  #gallery 92516378

  De Nova stella, anni 1572
  [published 1648] | 1 print
  Illus. in QB3.B828 [Rare Book RR] | LC-USZ62-95167 (b&w film copy neg.)

• 4.
  #gallery 92516380

  [Cassiopeia constellation depicted as Cassiopeia in chair, with key to stars' names at left and new star or nova at right]
  [published 1648] | 1 print
  Illus. in QB3.B828 [Rare Book RR] | LC-USZ62-95168 (b&w film copy neg.)

• 5.
  #gallery 92516555

  [Map of moon showing surface features, with four sets of cherubs and a scale bar]
  [published 1647] | 1 print | Hevelius, Johannes, 1611-1687.
  QB29.H44 Rosenwald Coll. 1321 [Rare Book RR] | LC-USZ62-95176 (b&w film copy neg.)

• 6.
  #gallery 92518505

  [Illustration showing Descartes' mechanical view of a universe filled with plenum and a system of vortexes that carries planets around the sun]
  [published 1644] | 1 print.
  Illus. in B1860 1644 Rosenwald Coll. 1431 [Rare Book RR] | LC-USZ62-95326 (b&w film copy neg.)