Illustration of Amerigo Vespucci discovering the southern cross in the sky with an astrolabe. Eighteenth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reper

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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. Colorized.

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Size: 3300px × 3277px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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