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Unexpected Design in the Beautiful and Odd Work of Fr. Athanasius Kircher (1668)

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This beautiful image is available for purchase via the blog's bookstore, here.

And the full sheet, folio 49/50:

These two sections are actually one continuous sheet in real life--the engraving just couldn't be scanned in one pass on my scanner....

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