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Dodart, D. Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire des plantes.
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Format
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photograph: print
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Date
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1676
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Description
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With a pharmacy and botanic garden in the background, Dodart’s seventeenth-century vignette depicts the process of preparing medical simples from plant to bottle. While laborers toil at the scales and distilling furnace, gentlemen-philosophers, clerics and physicians discuss the latest developments in pharmacoepia.
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Galileo, two illustrations of the moon from Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), Venice, 1610
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Format
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photograph: negative
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Date
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1610
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Description
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Two illustrations of features of the moon’s surface, showing strong light and dark shadings on the light side. According to the prevailing Aristotelian cosmology, heavenly bodies were perfectly smooth and spherical. Galileo’s observations of the moon’s roughness tended to support the new Copernican system, which no longer upheld the distinction between terrestrial and heavenly bodies.
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Dining Hall, Asylum
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photograph: negative
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Date
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1808
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Description
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Ackermann, R., The Microcosm of London, Vol. I, London 1808 Plate no. 5
