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Images about Philosophy

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  • Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.
  • The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd.
  • Plato discussing philosophical matters with others in the garden of the Academia. Etching by Salvator Rosa.
  • 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.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • Emblem representing the path to the philosopher's stone in alchemy. Etching by Defehrt, 1768, after L.-J. Goussier, after the frontispiece to a 17th century book by Libavius.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • Oxford: Friar Bacon's study, with the river. Line engraving.
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Works from the collections

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

    Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962. | Date: 1948
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    Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

    Averroës, 1126-1198. | Date: 1969
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    A history of Indian philosophy / [Surendra Nath Dasgupta].

    Dasgupta, Surendranath, 1885-1952. | Date: [1922-]
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    Dante, philomythes and philosopher : man in the cosmos / Patrick Boyde.

    Boyde, Patrick. | Date: 1983, ©1981
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    La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

    Barras, Vincent. | Date: 1994
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