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[Title page of Pliny's Natural history, with decorative border of dolphins and illustration of St. Michael lancing dragon]

[Title page of Pliny's Natural history, with decorative border of dolp...

Title page in: Historia naturalis / C. Plinus Secundus. Venice : J. de Spira, 1519. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 53.

Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.

Astronomical chart showing Antinous with bow and arrows, an eagle, and a dolphin forming the constellations. Illus. in: Urania's mirror, 1825, pl. 13.