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facsimile of late-17th-century engraved title-plate

Detail from 17th-century title-page engraving, showing humanism’s most privileged arts and sciences personified as women, with the allegorical figures of Theologia (Theology), Jurisprudentia (Jurisprudence), Metaphysica (Metaphysics), Dialectica (Logic), Rhetorica (Rhetoric), Physica (Physics), Medicina (Medicine), Mathesis (Mathematics), and Jus. Canonicum (Moral Ethics).

The title-page was designed for Tomus II of Ars Magna Sciendi (The Great Art of Knowledge) — an early book on memory systems and symbolic logic, written by Athanasius Kircher, and published at Amsterdam in 1669.

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