Establishment of Longitudes, Nova Reperta, 1590

Illustration of a ship sailing on the ocean during the Age of Discovery. A man at the back of the ship examines the ship's longitudinal placement on the globe. This is a colorized version of The Discovery of the Establishment of the Longitudes, the sixteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times), engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, and published by Philips Galle c.1590. This image has been colorized

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1590 1600 1600s Cartographic Cartographical Collaert Enhancement Inventions Measurement Navigational Nova Reperta Seventeeth Sixteenth Solaris

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