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Vignette showing a scholar standing at left and trying to calculate the height of the Colossus of Rhodes by measuring the angular size, assisted by several putti holding instruments; unsigned; after Peter Paul Rubens; illustration to the second book of Franciscus Aguilon's "Opticorum" (Antwerp: 1613). c.1613 Engraving
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