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Influenced by past Botanists such as Fuchs, Dodoens establishes a great number of images of herbals and their properties. Compared to other herbals, Dodoens groups and classifies many of herbs based on their similar qualities. In addition, he lists…

Raphael uses color, light and shadow in a way that shows he had a clear understanding of optical theories. The fresco shows a shift toward naturalism within art as more artists were beginning to understand optics and the role they play within art.

A dialogue crafted to display arguments of natural philosophy

A commentary of Dioscorides Materia Medica translated in to Italian, includes detailed text and images that portray the natural world of the Eastern World as seen by Dioscorides, and its usage in healing of diseases. Includes Mattioli's own research…

A treatise studying the five regular solids.

This painting of a German writing master and his son features a dodecahedron

Natural history discovered from the New World, which was brought to Spain by various explorers who travelled to the New World. Based on the experiences of these explorers to the New World, this manuscript gives detailed discription of various medical…

This manuscript builds off the Pliny the Elder's Naturalis Historia, a text that contains formularies that consist of herbs. Leoniceno argues and comments that many of the herbs discussed in Pliny's text are inaccurate of its actual use and…

Although not discovered until about the 1800s, Servetus builds on but argues against Dioscoride's Materia Medica. Servetus discusses his own medicinal recipes.

This is an image from an emblem book that depicts a body with feminine and masculine traits. The fire indicates the unfinished process of purification during the Albedo state of the alchemical process.