Subject: Astronomy
Period: 1683 (circa)
Publication: Description de l'Universe
Color: Hand Color
Size:
4 x 5.6 inches
10.2 x 14.2 cm
Two great little engravings from Mallet's Description of the Universe.  Fig. 39 depicts a telescope being used to view the Milky Way and 
Fig. 50  shows a huge Mercury in the sky above the Tower of Babel with astronomers in the foreground.
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Condition: A