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Cosmology

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Images about Cosmology

30 images from works
  • 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
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • The theory of the earth: containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo, till the consummation of all things. The two first books, concerning the deluge and concerning paradise / [Thomas Burnet].
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • Philosophia Moysaica. In qua sapientia et scientia creationis et creaturarum sacra veréque Christiana (vt pote cujus basis sive fundamentum est unicus ille Lapis Angularis Iesus Christus) ad amussim et enucleaté explicatur / Authore Rob. Flud, alias De Fluctibus.
  • Adam looks in wonder at the divine cosmological plan, represented above him in astronomical figures on a scroll; Eve looks at Adam. Etching.
  • John Dee's crystal, used for clairvoyance & healing, 17th C
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Works from the collections

163 works

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    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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