Map of the Moon, From an 18th century German children’s encyclopaedia, 'Bertuch’s Bilderbuch für Kinder'
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16th century copy of an ancient Persian cosmological map
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Arabic Map of the Earth, date unknown
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Fra Angelico, The Vision of Ezekiel, c. 1451-1452
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“The Man of Commerce” is a detailed map that conflates human anatomy with the American transportation system. Published in 1889
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‘Skidi ‘, Pawnee Star Map Great Plains, Kansas
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From the Augsburg 'Book of Miracles', c. 1550
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Hildegard of Bingen’s illumination for “God, Cosmos, and Humanity” in Scivias, her book of religious visions, ca. 1151
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Beatus of Liébana, Commentaria in Apocalypsin (the ‘Beatus of Saint-Sever’), Saint-Sever before 1072
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Manuscript, The Shahnama of Firdawsi, Iran Shiraz, 1539 CE. Work on paper 15.2 x 10 inches
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Prisse d'Avens, Islamic Art from the monuments of Cairo since the 7th to the late 18th century, 1877.
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Prisse d'Avens, Islamic Art from the monuments of Cairo since the 7th to the late 18th century, 1877.
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Elephant Mask. Cameroon. 19th century
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Tiles from Abakh Hoja Tomb, Burial Place Of Muhatum Ajam, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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Wassily Kandinsky, Blue (Blau). 1927
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Ludwig Becker, Watercolor Of A Meteor, 1860
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A detail from Albrecht Dürer’s 'Melencholia I', 1514
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Aztec Calendar Stone, Francisco de Agüera, 1792. Engraving in Antonio de León y Gama, Descripción histórica y cronológica . . . Mexico, 1832
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