Breve compendium philosophiae [manuscript]

Dumas, Bernard, Burndy Library, donor. DSI · 1652 · 16 pictures

A seventeenth-century manuscript compendium of natural philosophy, copied by Bernard Dumas in 1652 and held by the Smithsonian Libraries through the Burndy Library donation. Its pictures are hand-drawn star charts with red-inked constellations and lettered labels, a concentric cosmic diagram with planetary symbols, and a crude face drawing, offering designers loose hand-inked star patterns and scattered dot motifs.

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