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Illustration 'Coelum Lunea' depicting the Tower of Babel
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Illustration 'Coelum Lunea' depicting the Tower of Babel
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Illustration 'Coelum Lunae', depicting three globes, two of which have Towers of Babel sprouting from them, with scrolls in various languages across the top of the image.

From the manuscript: "Turris Babel, sive archontologia qua primo priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, secundo turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, confusio linguarum, et inde gentium transmigrationis ... describuntur et explicantur" by Athanasius Kircher

Amsterdam : Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergianna, 1679.

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