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Archaelogiae philosophicae : sive, doctrina antiqua de rerum originibus, libri duo

Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715 · 1692 · Londoni : Typis R.N. impensis Gualt. Kettilby · 2 pictures

Archaeologiae philosophicae, a 1692 Latin treatise on the origins of things by the English cleric Thomas Burnet, printed in London for the bookseller Gualtier Kettilby and held by York University Libraries. The first picture is a concentric cosmological diagram of a dark central sphere ringed by hatched bands and a fringed outer circle, drawn in fine engraved lines a designer could borrow for radial or orbital motifs.

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