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A treatise made to be a manual for artists and architects to incorporate measurement into their work.

Albrecht Dürer depicts a female angel with a predominance of black bile in her system.

A picture book that uses symbols of alchemy and deals with moral topic of good and evil.

This is an image that illustrates all phases of the Great Work or Magnum Opus. The crow represents Nigredo, the peacock represents Cauda Pavonis, the pheonix represents Rubedo. The man and woman symbolize duality. The circle at the bottom suggests…

A table list of alchemy characters from The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine.

A painting portraying renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli

The myth of Ovid's encounter with Salmacis. Salmacis enchanted the water to turn who ever stpped foot into it would come out of the water half-man half-woman. This is an old Greek myth that was painted by spranger who depicted several mythological…

A manuscript which outlines all aspects of life, to inlcude the natural history of New Spain with the help of native artisans

Scheiner was a Jesuit mathematician working in Rome. This treatise describes how the eye sees an inverted image that it somehow is able to flip. Scheiner's descriptions played a large role in the success of Johannes Kepler's theory of vision.

5 volume encyclopedia that is the first modern attempt to describe all animals known in the Rennaissance