EditorialPortrait of a Young Knight in a Landscape, probably Francesco Maria della Rovere. A young sprout of the old oak tree behind him. Inscription: MALO MORI QUAM FOEDARE. Ermine: Order of the Ermine founded in 1483. Oil on canvas (1510). Size: 218.5 x 142.2 cm.
EditorialA map of Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands. Thule insula, quam vewteplkol Islandiam ... appellari volunt ... [Louvain], [1558]. Source: Maps C.2.cc.5.
EditorialThe solar system and Planetarium, Illustration of the solar system from the 18th century, Fig. 2, p. 2, 1742, Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr: Atlas novus coelestis: in quo mundus spectabilis, et in eodem tam errantium quam inerrantium stellarum phoenomena n...
EditorialA map of Egypt. Pr?nobili Viro D.D. JOANNI, COMITI de SANDWICH VICECOMITI de HINCHINBROKE et BARONI MONTAGU de FANO Sti. NEOTI HANC TABULAM ?GYPTI, Ipsius Oculis Fidelibus nuper Subject?, ITINERIBUS ILLUSTRAT?; Tam ad Veteris quam Hodiern? Chorogr...
EditorialThe Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 17201778, Etching, Vertical rectangle. The arch is seen, partially in ruins, spanning a city street (the Corso, Rome). Below, the inscription: 'ARCUS MARCI AURELIT IMP. EX EJUS ARCHETYPI...