The melothesia sets the seven planets, not the twelve signs, over the human frame — Saturn at the spleen, the Moon at the brain, Venus at the loins — mapping the classical planets onto the organs they were thought to rule. This engraved figure belongs to the seventeenth century's astrological medicine, when a doctor read the body as an instrument tuned to the heavens. The word itself means 'limb-division.' We show it as a record of thought, not a working chart: a beautifully reasoned system, entirely of its period, that treated anatomy and astronomy as one continuous science. The wonder is in the confidence of it — everything connected to everything, drawn out in clean lines.

Maker: Engraver unknown
Date: c. 1660
Medium of the original: Engraving
Original held by: Wellcome Collection, London
Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00460

As chosen: 12 x 16 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	12 x 16 in
Outside size	13.6 x 17.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	216	Excellent	Trimmed 4.8%
12 x 16 in	151	Good	Trimmed 6.6%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 18 in	144 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
16 x 24 in	108 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	101 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	86 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 12% crop
24 x 36 in	72 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	60 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	50 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	43 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

1,821 x 2,600 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 2, lights 227 of 255; 0% clipped light, 4.8% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

23.08

Notes

Shadows clip on 5% of the image: the darkest areas print as solid black
Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned

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