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Allegorical scene unveiled by Time with, in the middle, a winged figure symbolizing History, sitting with an open book on her knees, and looking at four allegorical figures representing the different part of the world; beside History are Genealogy, who is showing her a family tree, Chronology, who is holding a tablet, Geography, who is working on a map with a pair of compasses, and Memory, who is pointing at philosophers standing on the right; among them is Diogenes; in the foreground, personifications of arts and sciences, with attributes; in the background, religious figures: Adam and Eve, Muhammad surrounded by disciples, Aaron and Moses and, further in the distance, a group of clerics and martyrs; in the distance, monuments such as the colossus of Rodhes, the tower of Babel, Mount Golgotha, a pyramid, the temple of Solomon; Noah's ark sails on the sea; above are the Olympian gods; frontispiece to 'Dictionnaire historique hollandais'