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Portrait of a man facing to the right in a cap and coat
Page from a facsimile of a manuscript by Dioscorides known as <i>Codex Vindobonensis</i> showing an onion in the center of the page surrounded by text in Greek with some words in Arabic
A text page in Greek
At the top of the page is a woodcut illustration of seven black rats huddled together; at the bottom is a woodcut illustration of a farm scene with a soman milking a cow on the left and a man churning butter on the right with two dogs and other livestock and a house in the background.
Illustration showing a seated Greek male figure in a toga with bare chest balancing a stick on an orb on a column with Greek text surrounding it.
Title page in Greek and Latin illustrated with a large anchor with a dolphin wrapped around it.
Book opened showing Latin text with manuscript initial letter 'I' in red ink
Book open with Arabic script on orange paper.
Detail from a title page of a wood block print of a printer's device, a dolphin wrapped around an anchor.

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Illustration showing a seated Greek male figure in a toga with bare chest balancing a stick on an orb on a column with Greek text surrounding it.

Pythagoras

An engraving on the title page of Antonio Cocchi's Del vitto Pitagorico. (Florence: Francesco Moücke, 1743)
The text reads: the Pythagorean diet.
Antonio Cocchi legitimized his theories about vegetarianism by citing Pythagoras.

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