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Concept

Cosmology

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  • A cosmological plan detailing Copernicus' astronomical vision, surrounded by diagrams of the systems of Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe ; astronomical figures line the circle. Line engraving by J.A. Fridrich after J.M. Füssli, 1732.
  • The angel announces to the Virgin that she will give birth to Christ. Watercolour.
  • A parody astrological diagram showing opposing aspects of the life of settlers in Jamaica: langorous noons and the hells of yellow fever. Coloured aquatint after A.James, 1800.
  • Reverse page, An almanack ... for the year 1562
  • Fludd, "Philosophia sacra...", 1626
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

    Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962. | Date: 1948
    • Books

    Scholastik und kosmologische Reform / [Ferdinand Fellmann].

    Fellmann, Ferdinand. | Date: [1971]
    • Books

    Pseudo-Bede, De mundi celestis terrestrisque constitutione = A treatise on the universe and the soul / edited and translated by Charles Burnett ; with the collaboration of members of a seminar group at the Warburg Institute, London.

    | Date: 1985
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0003983: Peruvian concept of the universe (1 of 4)

    | Date: August 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/33/22
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Natural symbols : explorations in cosmology / Mary Douglas.

    Douglas, Mary, 1921-2007. | Date: 1996
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