image credits

where the images on this site come from

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  a crown of thorns held between two hands (roundel 11), from an engraved sheet of twelve emblem roundels

  after Claude Paradin, Devises heroiques (Lyon, 1551)

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  public domain (found on Cosmos Public Works; the devices first appear in Paradin, 1551)

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  a leafy vine growing up a sword (roundel 3), from an engraved sheet of twelve emblem roundels

  after Claude Paradin, Devises heroiques (Lyon, 1551)

  source

  public domain (found on Cosmos Public Works; the devices first appear in Paradin, 1551)

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  an owl beneath a radiant sun (roundel 2), from an engraved sheet of twelve emblem roundels

  after Claude Paradin, Devises heroiques (Lyon, 1551)

  source

  public domain (found on Cosmos Public Works; the devices first appear in Paradin, 1551)

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  two hands with hammers over an anvil (roundel 8), from an engraved sheet of twelve emblem roundels

  after Claude Paradin, Devises heroiques (Lyon, 1551)

  source

  public domain (found on Cosmos Public Works; the devices first appear in Paradin, 1551)

• Zodiac and planet symbols, from Noto Sans Symbols

  Google, the Noto project

  source

  SIL Open Font License 1.1

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  Plate XXV, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

  Thomas Wright · 1750

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  public domain (scan: the Getty, via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Plate XXIX, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

  Thomas Wright · 1750

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  public domain (scan: the Getty, via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  A plate from Specimens of Fancy Turning (shown inverted)

  Edward J. Woolsey · 1869

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  public domain (Philadelphia Museum of Art; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Plate XXVI, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

  Thomas Wright · 1750

  source

  public domain (scan: the Getty, via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Detail of an emblem from Emblemata amatoria, by P. C. Hooft

  unknown engraver · 1618

  source

  public domain (scan: the Getty Research Institute, via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Plate VIII, from An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe

  Thomas Wright · 1750

  source

  public domain (scan: the Getty, via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Two of Coins (Two of Pentacles), Grand Etteilla tarot (Livre de Thot)

  after Etteilla (Jean-Baptiste Alliette) · Paris, c. 1789

  source

  public domain (found on Cosmos Public Works)

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  Hands pleating linen, from the Trattato delle piegature (treatise on napkin folding)

  Mattia Giegher · 1629

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  public domain (e-rara; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Colour wheel, from Versuch eines Farbensystems

  Ignaz Schiffermüller · 1772

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  public domain (via the Internet Archive; found via the Public Domain Review)

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  Dress ornament (gold)

  Scythian · ca. 5th century BCE

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  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  Textile ornament (gold)

  Nasca artist(s) · 1–700 CE

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  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  Dress ornament (gold)

  Scythian · ca. 5th century BCE

  source

  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  Cuneiform tablet: list of magical stones

  Achaemenid or Seleucid · ca. mid- to late 1st millennium BCE

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  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  Flower-shaped clothing plaque (one of a set)

  China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia) · 7th–9th century

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  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  Bead ornament in the form of a female head (one of a set)

  Greek · 6th–5th century BCE

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  public domain (The Met, Open Access)

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  brass horse

  from Kris's collection

  Kris's own