Book Title: Voor-bereidselen tot de bybelsche wysheid, en gebruik der heilige en kirklijke historien: uit de alder-oudste gedenkkenissen der Hebreen, Chaldeen, Babyloniers, Egiptenaars, Syriers, Grieken en Romeinen... Door een liefhebber der Joodische oudheden.

Author: Willem Goeree 1635-1711

Image Title: Maps of the Heavens and the Earth

Description: Ancient conceptions of the measurement and divisions of the sky. Apollo rides his chariot over representations of the twelve signs of the Zodiac (top); diagrams of the earth over three coins depicting Vesta, the Roman goddess of hearth and home, who also represented Earth, the sacred sphere that makes life possible. Engraved by Jan van den Aveelen (1655-1727).

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