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Woodcut illustration from Mercuriale's 'De arte gymnastica libri sex'
Woodcut illustration from the first text on gymnastics: Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606).  De arte gymnastica libri sex. Tertia editione correctiores, & auctiores facti. Venitiis: Apud Iuntas, 1587.