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Text from Mandeville's Travels, Translated from the French of Jean d'Outremeuse, edited by P. Hamelius, EETS OS Vol. 153 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1919), 175-6. Image from the Internet Archive. Open Library entry.

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Text from Walter Charleton, The darknes of atheism dispelled by the light of nature a physico-theologicall treatise (London: Printed by J. F. for William Lee, 1652), 133. Image from Early English Books Online.

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Text and illustration from John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London: John Norton, 1597), 1391. Image used with kind permission of the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Text from Girolamo Cardano, De rerum varietate..., Book 17 (Basel, 1557), 216. Image from Google Books.

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Text from Sir Thomas Browne, Religio medici (London: Printed for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, 1682): 115. Image from Early English Books Online.

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Illustration from Jost Amman, Charta lusoria (Nuremberg: Heußler, 1588): 3 of books. Image from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

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Text from The Historical Works of Giraldus Cambrensis, ed. Thomas Wright (London: George Bell & Sons, 1894): 36. Image from the Internet Archive. Open Library entry.

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Illustrations from Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of plants (London: W. Rawlins, 1682), Tab. 1, Tab. 36. Image used with kind permission of the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Text from Nehemiah Grew, The anatomy of plants (London: W. Rawlins, 1682), dedicatory epistle. Image used with kind permission of the Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Illustration from Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Delitiae mathematicae et physicae, Vol. 3 (Nuremberg: Endter, 1653): 583. Image from the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel.

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Text from Sir Thomas Browne's works including his life and correspondence, Vol. 3, ed. by Simon Wilkin (London: William Pickering, 1835): 406. Image from the Internet Archive. Open Library entry.

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Text from Catherine O. Wilson, The invisible world: early modern philosophy and the invention of the microscope (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995): 63. Image scanned by the author.

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Text from Nathaniel Highmore, The history of generation... (London: Printed for R. N. by John Martin, 1651): 45. Image from Early English Books Online.

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Image from the author's personal wiki of reading notes. Quote from Lorraine Daston and Katherine Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (New York: Zone Books, 1998): 236.

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Image scanned by the author, from the author's notebook.

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