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MAJ5035887: Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci (Americus Vespucius) (1451/1454-1512), Italian merchant and navigator uses his astrolabe to measure the Southern Cross. Illustration taken from “Il grandi navigatori italiani”” by Giuseppe Fanciulli illustrated by Beryl Hight Tumiati, 1931., Tumiati, Beryl (b.1890) / Bridgeman Images
GIA5035944: Plate taken from the manuscript “” Treat de la sphere”” (De sphaera mundi or Tractatus de sphaera) by Jean de Sacro Bosco (Giovanni Sacrobosco or John of Holywood or Halifax, c. 1195 - 1256) astrologer, astronomer. His study takes over the Almageste of Claude Ptolemee. 14th century CPM / Bridgeman Images