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Book of Kells Facsimile
Edward Sullivan, 1927
Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1609)
Khunrath, Heinrich, 1609
On the Fabric of the Human Body (De Humani Corporis Fabrica)
Andreas Vesalius, 1543
On the Fabric of the Human Body
Musurgia Universalis (Universal Music)
Athanasius Kircher, 1650
The Geography
Claudius Ptolemy, 1482
Voynich Manuscript - High Resolution Scans
Beinecke Library, Yale University, 1420
The Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (ed. Sabachnikoff & Piumati), 1898
Sonnets, Songs, and Triumphs
Francesco Petrarca, 1370
The Devil's Bible
Herman the Recluse (attr.), 1220
The History of the Two Worlds
Robert Fludd, 1617
The Hieroglyphic Monad (1564 Antwerp)
Dee, John, 1564
The Book of Nativities and the Centiloquy of Hermes
Albubather; Hermes Trismegistus, 1485
Leviathan (1651 first edition)
Thomas Hobbes, 1651
