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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: the face of the sun.

This diagram, taken from plate XLII on eclipses, shows the sun as an eight-pointed star with a face in the middle, including eyes, nose and mouth! (Obviously the sun does not have a beard, since the h [...]

Keywords: astronomy, sun, diagrams, zodiac

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Added: 2009-10-23

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: sun and eclipses

A diagram with the sun in the middle, complete with a face, and showing the illumination of the earth at varoius times of the year, marked by month and zodiac sign. There is also a version of this dia [...]

Keywords: astronomy, sun, zodiac, diagrams, eclipses, planets, astrology

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Added: 2009-10-23

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Plate XV.—Anatomy.

A naked man is shown, without his skin, so that the muscles can be seen, in order to teach anatomy. The muscles immediately under the common teguments on the anterior part of the body, are represeted [...]

Keywords: anatomy, diagrams, spooky, nudity, bare feet

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Added: 2009-10-23

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy: detail: antique star engraving

A copper-plate engraving representing a star from a diagram explaining astronomy; you can also see the full diagram.

Keywords: diagrams, stars, astronomy, astrology

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Added: 2009-10-23

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Plate XLII.—Astronomy.

The purpose of the four interwoven figures here is to explain how an eclipse of Jupiter’s satellites (or moons) works. I will scan the details on request. These are beautifully-engraved diagrams, wi [...]

Keywords: astronomy, diagrams, sun, labels, eclipses, zodiac

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Added: 2009-10-23

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Spinning Jenny

“The mule-jenny was invented by Crompton, of Bolton, England. This machine is so named because it is the offspring, so to speak, of two older machines, the jenny and the water-frame. A mule is mounted [...]

Keywords: machinery, diagrams

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Added: 2006-10-23

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The Tower of London

A woodcut showing a diagram of the Tower of London and its surringings. There are boats and conttages, battlements and towers, with the keep in the middle of it all. The letters annotating various pa [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, battlements, towers, boats, ships, moats

Places shown: LondonLondon; England

Added: 2009-02-11

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Fifteenth Century Wooden Composing Stick

“Standing in front of the case, the compositor held in his left hand a wooden “composing-stick,” in which a rectangular trench had been cut to receive the letters. Reading and keeping in his mind a fe [...]

Keywords: printing, tools, typography, diagrams, hands

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Added: 2006-09-17

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A Line of Composed Type

“When the end of a line was reached, and there was no room for more words and yet some space left, the compositor by placing a little extra space between the words made the line fill out the stick. Th [...]

Keywords: typography, printing, diagrams

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Added: 2006-09-17

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. (version with no caption)

This is a version of The Mode in which Antient Castles... but without the caption. Antient is an old way to spell “ancient.” The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. 1 The Barbacan. 2 [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams

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Added: 2007-05-31

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The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built.

The Mode in which Antient Castles were generally built. 1 The Barbacan. 2 The Ditch or Moat. 3 Wall of the outer Ballium. 4 Outer Ballium. 5 Artificial Mount. 6 Wall of the inner Ballium. 7 Inner Ball [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, towers

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Added: 2007-05-31

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3.—Width Proportions of Modern Roman Capitals.

“Width proportions, which may be found useful in laying out lettering for lines of a given length, are shown in [Fig. 3] in a more modern style of the Roman capital. In the classic Roman letter the cr [...]

Keywords: lettering, alphabets, diagrams

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Added: 2007-02-12

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