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[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco hasta el cabo de Santa Elena ...].

[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

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

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, argumenta

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

Feats of Light. Book illustration from Library of Congress

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

[Geometric figure of earth, sun, and moon calculated by Aristarchus to approximate real scale of the solar system]

[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

Modo di dormire nel Golfo di Paria...

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 being cut up and eaten in background. Caribbean?]

[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

Paysan de Valladolid. A drawing of a man with a hat and a cane Norway
François Dubois - Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy (détail)

François Dubois - Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy (détail)

Français : Détail de la toile de François Dubois, Le Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy.

Paysanne des environs d'Avila - Roger de Gaignières (1642-1715)

Paysanne des environs d'Avila - Roger de Gaignières (1642-1715)

Français : Paysanne des environs d'Avila Public domain photograph related to Polish history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ortelius 1572 Ireland Map - Public domain vintage map

Ortelius 1572 Ireland Map - Public domain vintage map

Ireland as depicted on the 1572 map of Europe by Abraham Ortelius. Interesting are the prominent featuring of St. Patrick's Purgatory and the curious island of Brasil. Purgatory is a concept in Roman Catholici... More

Francois Dubois 001 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Francois Dubois 001 - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Death of Sigismund Augustus at Knyszyn

Death of Sigismund Augustus at Knyszyn

Death of Sigismund Augustus in Knyszyn in 1572 label QS:Len,"Death of Sigismund Augustus at Knyszyn" label QS:Lpl,"Śmierć Zygmunta Augusta w Knyszynie"

Jan Luyken - 1690 Don Pacieco mr

Jan Luyken - 1690 Don Pacieco mr

Don Pedro Pacieco opper krygs bouwmeester des H van Alva, nevens twee Spaensche Jonkers Opgehangen tot Vlissingen in den Jaare 1572; Size: 27,5 x 35 cm

Braun & Hogenberg - Braun Burgos HAAB

Braun & Hogenberg - Braun Burgos HAAB

Burgos Public domain photograph of 16th-century city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Braun & Hogenberg - Braun Cadiz UBHD

Braun & Hogenberg - Braun Cadiz UBHD

Cadiz Public domain photograph of 16th-century plan, map, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of 16th-century city, cityscape, free to use, no copyright ... More

Enthauptung von Johann Sylvanus 1572 aus Thesaurus Pictuarum

Enthauptung von Johann Sylvanus 1572 aus Thesaurus Pictuarum

Enthauptung von Johann Sylvanus 1572 Public domain image - related to Portuguese history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gravure de Casablanca - 1572

Gravure de Casablanca - 1572

Français : Cette gravure datant de 1572 représente Casablanca.

Port of Casablanca (c. 1572)

Port of Casablanca (c. 1572)

Depicted place: Port of Casablanca

City of Sofala, 1572 - A map of a town on a river

City of Sofala, 1572 - A map of a town on a river

Cefala - bird's-eye view of the city of Sofala (Mozambique) from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg's atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, vol. I, 1572

Primer plano de la provincia de Santafé, Diego de Torres, Cacique de Turmequé .

Primer plano de la provincia de Santafé, Diego de Torres, Cacique de T...

Español: Primer plano de la provincia de Santafé, levantado por Diego de Torres, Cacique de Turmequé (1572).

Noc św. Bartłomieja

Noc św. Bartłomieja

Transferred from pl.wikipedia to Commons by Maksim. The original description page was here. All following user names refer to pl.wikipedia. kadr z francuskiego filmu z 1916 r. źródło: http://www.gildasattic.co... More

Fernando Bertelli, Die Seeschlacht von Lepanto, Venedig 1572, Museo Storico Navale (550x500)

Fernando Bertelli, Die Seeschlacht von Lepanto, Venedig 1572, Museo St...

This fresco depicts the Battle of Lepanto, where a combined Christian force crushed the Ottoman Navy - this particular painting occupies a prominent position at one end of the Hall of Maps, in the Vatican Museu... More

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sailing order, 1572 July 3

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

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sailing order, 1572 July 3

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