Tag: 1500s

The document names the commander. It names his role. It describes his method of entry. It specifies the mechanism: rivers dried up, bronze gates...

Jacques de Vaulx, Les premières Œuvres, 1584. Southern hemisphere projection centred on the Antarctic Pole. The landmass labelled Australle Montz (Australia Mountains) is rendered...

In 1912, a Polish book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich was working through a collection of old manuscripts at the Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college...

We all know Humpty Dumpty. The rhyme is so familiar that it rarely invites discomfort: a figure perched on a wall, a fall, a...

The Tartariae Imperium, first appearing in Magini's Geographiae Universae tum Veteris tum Novae Absolutissimum in 1596, is a fantastic illustration that shows the Tartarian...