An antique 15th Century woodcut engraving depicting the Persian physician and polymath Muhammad ibn Zacariya al-Razi. He is shown holding a book and an early pair of rivet spectacles. This woodcut is excised from a single from a single page of the historic Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum) published in 1493 by Hartmann Schedel with woodcuts produced by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleyenwurff. This print is famous in the history of science and optics for depicting one of the earliest representations of rivet spectacles. Woodcut engraving of Urbanus Secundus (Pope Urban II),on verso.
Approx 6cms by 8cms.
