File:Vespucci finding the Southern Cross.jpg

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Pate 19 from Nova Repertae (c.1600), entitled "The Development of the Mariners Astrolabe and the Discovery of America by Amerigo Vespucci".

Depiction of Amerigo Vespucci finding the Southern Cross constellation with an "astrolabium". Event described by Vespucci in his Letter to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici (dated 1500) as happening during his 1499 voyage to the Indies. Print includes Vespucci's own allusion to a relevant passage in Dante's Purgatorio (passage). Although this is one of the first recorded references to the use of the mariner's astrolabe in navigation, the artist seems unfamiliar with that instrument, and has Vespucci holding a spherical version instead; there seems to also be a quadrant on the table (also reported used by Vespucci). N.B. - this 1500 letter was not known to exist until discovered by Bandini in 1745! Artist either knew of it already, or may have drawn speculatively from a very brief reference to astrolabe in Vespucci's letter published in 1505 Mundus Novus (passage, although, unlike in the 1500 letter, there is no reference to the Southern Cross nor Dante here). Etching by Jan Collaert, based on Stradanus, 1591.
Date (Stradanus), c.1600 (Collaert)
Source Nova Repertae, c.1600 (here)
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Jan Collaert II  (1561–)  wikidata:Q6148719
 
Alternative names
Hans Collaert II
Description Flemish drawer and printmaker
Date of birth/death 1560s
date QS:P,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
/ 1561 Edit this at Wikidata		 1620 / 1628 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Antwerp
Work period from 1585 until 1620
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1585-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Antwerp Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6148719
Philip Galle  (1537–1612)  wikidata:Q1379395
 
Philip Galle
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Philipp Galle
Description Flemish drawer, engraver and publisher
Date of birth/death 1537 Edit this at Wikidata 12 March 1612 or 29 March 1612
Location of birth/death Haarlem Antwerp
Work period from 1580 until 1612
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1580-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1612-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Antwerp Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q1379395
after Stradanus

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