EditorialMap of Terrae Del Evogo Pars. The Americas. Image of the coastline and native peoples. . Francofurti ad Moenum : Theodoro de Bry. America.-Part VI.-Latin. Americ? pars sexta. Siue Histori? ab Hieronymo Bezono ... script?, sectio tertia ... In hac ....
EditorialAmericae sive novi orbis, no va descriptio. 16th century Map of America, by Ortelius. Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm. Anvers : De l'Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, pour Abraham Ortel, autheur mesme de ce liure, 1587. Source: Maps.C.2.d.2 before page 6.
EditorialMap of America Sive Novvs Orbis Respectv Evropaeorvm Inferior Giori Terresttres Pars. America sive novus orbis respectu Europaeorum infrerior globi terrestris pars, 1596. Francofurti ad Moenum : Theodoro de Bry. Source: C.115.h.3.(1) between 4-5. Langu...
EditorialInvention of the Stirrup, design for 'Staphae, sive stapedes,' pl. 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and ink, black chalk, brush and gray and brown wash on ...
EditorialVestal virgin Tuccia carries water in a colander to prove her innocence, The Vestal virgin Tuccia, by the river Tiber who is portrayed by a river god, carries water in a colander to prove her innocence. Romulus and Remus are sitting in the foreground w...
EditorialMap of America Sive Novvs Orbis Respectv Evropaeorvm Inferior Giori Terresttres Pars. America sive novus orbis respectu Europaeorum infrerior globi terrestris pars, 1596. Francofurti ad Moenum : Theodoro de Bry. Source: C.115.h.3.(1) between 4-5. Langu...
EditorialTitelblatt ans Johannes Lambertus' ... Photometria both the size and levels of light, colors and shades 1, Title page from Johann Heinrich Lamberts '... Photometria sive de mensura and gradibus luminis, colorum et umbrae' from the 18th century, title p...
EditorialBarcinonensium. "Marca Hispanica sive limes hispanicus". Book written in Latin by Pierre de Marca (1594-1662). In 1656 he was commissioned to formalise the border treaty between the kingdoms of France and Spain, a task that was reflected in this collec...
EditorialThe introduction of the silkworm at the court of emperor Justinian, design for 'Ser, sive sericus vermis,' plate 8 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and brown...
EditorialInvention of the Stirrup, design for 'Staphae, sive stapedes,' pl. 9 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and ink, black chalk, brush and gray and brown wash on ...
EditorialTheatrum Sive Coliseum Romanum, Print made by unknown artist, sixteenth century, after Ambrogio Brambilla, active ca. 15791599, Italian, Published by Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi, 16271691, Italian, Published by Claude Duchet, died ca. 1585, French, Publi...
EditorialAntonio Tempesta, Theseus and the Minotaur (Minotaurum Theseus vincit), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 74, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 15551630 Rome), Published after 1606...
EditorialMedea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decerptio iuventam restituit Medea), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 64.
EditorialAn organ. A. Kircheri ... Mùsurgia Universalis, sive Ars mag. Rome, 1650. Illustration of an organ. Image taken from A. Kircheri Mùsurgia Universalis, sive Ars magna Consoni et Dissoni in x. Libros digesta... Originally published/produced in Rome, ...
Editorial16th century map of Russia. Atlas sive cosmographicae Meditationes de fabrica Mundi et fabricati figura. Dusseldorf : Albertus Busius, 1595. Source: Maps.C.3.c.3, 26. Language: Latin.
EditorialApollo at Vulcan's Forge. Metamorphoseon sive Transformationum Ovidianarum libri quindecim, ?neis formis ab A. Tempesta incisi, etc. Antwerp, 1606. Source: 11355.a.12, plate 33. Language: Latin.
EditorialDifferent types of timing, Illustration of various mechanisms of 17th century timekeeping, Iconism VII, p. 662, 1664, Athanasius Kircher, Kaspar Schott: P.Gasparis Schotti [...] technica curiosa sive mirabilia artis, libris XII [...]. Pars II. Liber no...
EditorialThe city of Brugg, Argaw, Switzerland, View from Brugg, to p. 326, 1723, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive, itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis MDCCII, MDCIII, MDCCIV, MDCCV, MDCCVI, MDCCVII, MDCCIX, MDCCX, MDCCXI (...
EditorialText page from Griendels Micrographia nova, Text page in which Griendel describes the fight between a flea and a louse under the microscope, from the 17th century, p. 16, 1687, Johann Franz Griendel: Micrographia nova: sive nova & curiosa variorum minu...
EditorialEscaped, Illustration of a flea from the 17th century, fig. IV, to p. 16, 1687, Johann Franz Griendel: Micrographia nova: sive nova & curiosa variorum minutorum corporum singularis cujusdam & noviter ab [...]. Norimbergae: Sumptibus Johannis Ziegeri, 1687.
EditorialOven and its components 2, Illustration of a stove and related components, such as lower and upper part, grate, stove, bowl, lid and flue, 17th century, Fig. 3, p. 62, 1658, Johann Rudolph Glauber: Miraculum mundi, sive plena perfectaque descriptio adm...
EditorialBad Pf?fers, Bad Pf?fers with aqueducts with foreground, Tab. 2 (Iter 3), after p. 152, 1723, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Ouresiphoites Helveticus, sive, itinera per Helvetiae alpinas regiones facta annis MDCCII, MDCIII, MDCCIV, MDCCV, MDCCVI, MDCCVII, MD...