Establishment of Longitudes, Nova Reperta, 1590

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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 This image has been colorized.

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