Amerigo Vespucci Using Astrolabe, Engraving circa 1600
Illustration of Amerigo Vespucci discovering the southern cross in the sky with an astrolabe. Eighteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times), engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle, circa 1600
Picture No
14028633
Media ID
47829790
Size
3300px x 3277px
(5.5MB)
Credit
Metropolitan Museum of Art / Science Source / Mary Evans
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date
circa 1600
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