Un Missionnaire - 18th Century wood engraving represents the search for & beyond the boundaries of knowledge, depicted as the edge of a sphere.
from "L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire" ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology") (1888). Illustration shows a man on earth peering through the universe to what was believed in the middle ages to lie beyond. Typically represents the quest for knowledge and the pushing of out understanding of the boundaries of the universe.
Size: 7000px × 5852px
Location: Universe
Photo credit: © Antiquarian Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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