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A book on mathematical proportions and their applications to geometry was written in Milan between 1496 and 98 and first published in Venice.

This volume documents the local flora and fauna of Dutch Surinam, specifically caterpillars, with descriptions of the each species and its habitat

Based on the traditions of the Nahua people of Mesoamerica, this manuscript includes both description and images of herbals found in the New World--what is now known as Central Mexico--that were used for various medical ailments by the Aztecs. This…

Early modern world map

Zaccolini's treatise has four parts that discuss different theories of painting. The treatise is most noted for Zaccolini's theories on optics and vision and there how they relate to painting.

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.

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

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…

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