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Camera obscura: showing how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees

Camera obscura: showing how the scene outside was collected by a mirror tilted at 45 degrees(B) passed through a meniscus lens between F and C and the image thrown onto the table below. From The Magazine of Science Vol.I, London 1840

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The relation of man, the microcosm with the universe, the macrocosm, showing the spheres of the Sun

The relation of man, the microcosm with the universe, the macrocosm, showing the spheres of the Sun, Moon and planets and the hierarchy of angels, archangels, leading to the trinity of God represented by triangle at the top. From Robert Fludd Ultriusque cosmi... historia, Oppenheim, 1617-1619. Engraving

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Diagram of the Earth during Carboniferous period. Land - unshaded: Deep sea - diagonal lines

Diagram of the Earth during Carboniferous period. Land - unshaded: Deep sea - diagonal lines: Shallow water - horizontal lines. From an article by Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) on his theory of Continental Drift (Wegener Hypothesis: 1915) published in Discovery, London, 1922

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