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A man with a wooden leg plays the violin while his wife and children accompany him with a song. Coloured lithograph.
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African people of the Camma tribe dancing by the light of a fire. Wood engraving.
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Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.Date: 1718Reference: 23945i
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P. Gasparis Schotti Mechanica hydraulico-pnevmatica : qua præterquàm quòd aquei elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aëre conflictus, à primis, fundamentis demonstratur; omnis quoque generis experimenta hydraulico-pnevmatica recluduntur; & absoluta machinarum aquâ & aëre animandrarum ratio ac methodus præscribitur. Opus bipartitum ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alij stabilire, alij evertere conantur.
Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666.Date: 1657
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A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569.Date: c. 1610Reference: 17505i