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Scientific Plate

293 pieces in the Scientific Plate manner, each sold only at the sizes its file can hold.

From The Firmament 27Cabinet of Curiosities 23The Alembic 17The Complication 7 and 1 more house

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49–78 of 78 pieces

A View of the Copernican System

Andreas Cellarius

Plate, 1660

PA-00985from $55

The Weighing of the World Systems

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Plate, 1651

PA-00986from $60

The Sun Rises Over the City

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00507from $60

The Dragon Arum

William Ward, after Peter Charles Henderson and Robert John Thornton

Plate, 1801

PA-00249from $60

The Book of the Fixed Stars

'Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

Plate, Copied late 15th century

PA-00259from $60

Cubomedusae

Ernst Haeckel (lithograph by Adolf Giltsch)

Lithograph, 1899–1904

PA-00272from $60

The Snow Bird

John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)

Engraving, 1827

PA-00283from $60

The Booby

Mark Catesby

Plate, 1731–1743

PA-00286from $55

Spiders, Ants, and a Hummingbird

Maria Sibylla Merian

Plate, 1705

PA-00290from $55

The First Parable: Miners at the Rock

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00502from $55

The Seventh Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

PA-00527from $55

The Zytglogge Sketches — 1534

Unknown draughtsman

Plate, 1534

PA-00541from $60

The Peacock’s Tail

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00506Display only

Ripley Scroll — Getty Research Institute, 950053

Unknown English scribe-illuminator; verses traditionally attributed to George Ripley

Plate, c. 1600–1700

PA-00522Display only

The Bat’s Flea, with Fleabane

John Curtis

Plate, 1830

PA-00291Display only

Arma Artis — The Arms of the Art

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00500Display only

The Knight Upon Two Fountains

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00501Display only

The Fifth Parable: The Two-Headed Figure

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00503Display only

Three Birds Contend Within the Vessel

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00504Display only

The Three-Headed Dragon of the Sun

Unknown illuminator (text attributed to Salomon Trismosin)

Plate, 1582 copy

PA-00505Display only

Immersion in the Bath

Unknown (anonymous woodcut artist)

Woodcut

PA-00519Display only

The Divine Monochord

Robert Fludd

Plate, Early 17th century

PA-00523Display only

Mirror of the Whole of Nature

Robert Fludd

Plate, Early 17th century

PA-00524Display only

The First Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

PA-00525Display only

The Fourth Key

Matthaeus Merian the Elder, engraver (text attributed to Basilius Valentinus)

Engraving, Late 17th century; text tradition traced to ca. 1599

PA-00526Display only

Holbein’s Design for a Clocksalt — 1543

Hans Holbein the Younger

Plate, 1543

PA-00542Display only

The Dance of Death

Jacques Gamelin

Plate, 1779

PA-00943Display only

Galileo's Moon

Galileo Galilei

Plate, 1610

PA-00973Display only

The Phases of the Moon

Maria Clara Eimmart

Plate, c. 1690s

PA-00975Display only

Cometographia

Johannes Hevelius

Plate, 1668

PA-00980Display only