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Modo di dormire nel Golfo di Paria...

Native leanto dwellings, with hammocks. Gulf of Paria, betw. Trinidad and Venezuela. Illus. in: Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuova (Venetia, 1572). No reference copy. This record contains unverified,... More

[Indians pouring molten gold into mouth of bound Spaniard; corpse bein...

Illus. in: Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, p. 50 (Venetia, 1572). Reference copy may be in SSF - CANNIBALISM. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: I... More

Feats of Light. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Scene illustrating many of the propoerties of light; such as rainbow, mirrored images, sunlight through glass causing fire; scene is of seaport with galleons in harbor; elephants crossing long bridge. Illus. in... More

Aboro, che sempre stilla acqua per le foglie, nell'isola del Ferro

Tree growing in circular-walled well. Illus. in: Girolamo Benzoni, La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, p. 179 (Venetia, 1572). Reference copy may be in SSF - ABORICULTURE. This record contains unverified, old data fro... More

Triplicus visus, directi, reflexi & refracti, de quo optica disputat, ...

Illustration showing aspects of optics: Battle scene with Archimedes' mirrors using sun to defend city of Syracuse against sailing ships, a rainbow, elephants crossing long bridge drawn in perspective, nude man... More

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region to the Pánuco River ... More

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sailing order, 1572 July 3

In the age of piracy on the high seas, sailing instructions were top-secret documents upon which rested the security of the king's fleet and his treasure. Here, Menéndez de Avilés, governor of Florida, gives ... More

[Geometric figure of earth, sun, and moon calculated by Aristarchus to...

Illus. in: De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae / Aristarchus of Samos. Pisauri : Apud. C. Francischinum, 1572, p. 30. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : L... More