GIA4764445: Adam Schall, astronomer (1592-1666) in Mandarin costume in the Pekin Observatory, in “China” by Athanase Kircher (or Athanasius Kircheri), 1667 - In the right hand leans on an armillary sphere he holds a comppas, in the left a nautical astrolabe - On the wall, below the geographic map there is a crossbow for the determination of the latitude and has the height of the left shoulder a sundial, Unknown Artist, (17th century) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4764604: Engraving in “Hypnerotomachia Polyphili” (the dream of Poliphila) by Dominican monk Francesco Colonna, Venice, 1497 printed by Aldo Manuzio (Alde Manonce) (1450 - 1515), Venetian scholar and printer: the scene represents the transformation of tree nymphs into creatures of human appearance: expression of Reincarnation., Colonna, Francesco (c.1433-1527) / Bridgeman Images
GIA4761719: The Children's Crusade: popular movements born in Germany and France in 1212, which gathered thousands of people of peasant origin behind young prophets, proclaiming themselves elected from God, to go and deliver Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre from the Gentiles. Illustration by Gustave Doré., Dore, Gustave (1832-83) / Bridgeman Images