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Published by Richards & Co.

Richards & Co.; Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/193112
Date
1800-1899
Description
Print originally used as the frontispiece for the third edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1797. A balloon flies above a Greek architectural square where are gathered a large group of men, buildings, inventions and discoveries significant to the history of Western science, art and philosophy.
 
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Subject
Frontispiece, Animals, Library buildings, Architecture -- Greece, Mathematics, Plato, Skeleton, Musical instruments, Moses (Biblical leader), Science -- Study and teaching
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