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Machines of War and Castle Diagram The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The entire plate. The other images here are all details from this plate, but at much higher resolution. These are all described as weapons used in attacking (or defending) castles. There is also an an [...]

Keywords: castles, diagrams, weapons, siege engines, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Ballista (Balista) The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

A ballista together with darts for the ballista and a winch for bending the ballista. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Machines of War overview The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

This is the bottom half of the diagram shown in the Machines of War plate. The individual machines are in separate illustrations here.

Keywords: diagrams, weapons, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Moveable Tower with Bridge and Battering Ram. The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Castle Diagram The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

Diagram showing the various parts of the battlements of a castle. The text, under the heading References, lists 1. The Barbican, 2. The Ditch of Moat, 3. Wall of the outer Ballium [now called the out [...]

Keywords: castles, siege engines, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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Catapulta [Catapult] The Antiquities of England and Wales (1783)

The lettered parts are explained in the text of the book. This is taken from Machines of War.

Keywords: siege engines, weapons, diagrams, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2004-01-19

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White Pawn (Alice) to play, and win in eleven moves. Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There (1871)

This is a diagram of a chess-board, the sort one finds printed in newspapers as puzzles, with a summary of the “game” that also serves as a table of contents for the book. I will add the table of cont [...]

Keywords: games, chess, puzzles, diagrams, illustrations for children, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-19

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Robert Fludd - The Mirror of the Whole of Nature and the Image of Art Collected Occult Images (1690)

This engraving, captioned Integra Natura fpeculum Artisque imago, which is, The whole(ness) of nature reflected in the mirror of art, appeared in Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysic [...]

Keywords: occult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, people, nudity, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-08

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Robert Fludd’s Mirror of Nature, Widescreen Version Collected Occult Images (1690)

A computer wallpaper based on a fragment of Nature’s Mirror.

Keywords: ocult, diagrams, alchemy, zodiac, astrology, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2012-08-08

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Skull and one side of mandible of Musk Rat. American Animals (1902)

N nasal.     F frontal.     P parietal.     O occipital.     Z zygomatic arch.     B audital bulla.     Mx Maxillary.     PMx premaxillary.     I incisors.     M molars.     CP coronoid process.     C [...]

Keywords: diagrams, animals, skulls, death, rodents, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-13

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19.—Various Barrows Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The text reads as follows:

1. Long barrow. 2. Bowl-barrow.. 3. Bell-barrow. 6. Variety of Druit barrow. 8. Cone-barrow. 9. Broad-barrow. 13. Silbury Hill.

Keywords: stonehenge, megaliths, ruins, burial mounds, views, druids, diagrams, greyscale

Places shown: Salisubury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-04-03

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20.—Varieties of Druid Barrow Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

The caption (retained in the image) reads as follows:

4, 10, 11. Varieties of Druid Barrow. 5. Another variety. 7. Twin-barrow. 12. Tumulus called Mil-barrow, Wilts. 14. Tumulus, New Grange, Drogheda.

Keywords: druids, stonehenge, megaliths, ruins, burial mounds, diagrams, views, stone circles, greyscale

Places shown: Salisbury Plain; Wiltshire; England

Added: 2005-05-01

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