Type/Technique

Title pages

Images

  • A title page illustrated with two eagles and a vulture holding a sheep's skin between them. Engraving, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • A surgeon setting a leg with the aid of three assistants, observed by onlookers, in front of walls on which various surgical instruments are arranged. Engraving by Jacob van Meurs, 1657.
  • An allegorical figure holding torches seated on a baroque monument; the symbols of the four evangelists above her, and Saint Thomas Aquinas and Galen at her side. Engraving by Jacob Bruynel after A. van Diepenbeeck, 1666.
  • A man consulting a physician who examines a flask of his urine. Engraving, 1644.
  • Athanasius Kircher being guided by an archangel to the celestial spheres. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.

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