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| Keywords: Vespucci finding the Southern Cross.jpg 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 http //books google com/books id R9QOAAAAQAAJ pg PA71 v onepage q f false 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 http //books google com/books id 8wAuAAAAMAAJ pg PA45 v onepage q f false 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 Nova Repertae c 1600 http //www 1st-art-gallery com/ after -Straet -Jan-Van-Der- giovanni-Stradano /The-Development-Of-The-Mariners-Astrolabe-And-The-Discovery-Of-America-By-Amerigo-Vespucci-1454-1512-Plate-19-From-Nova-Reperta-New-Discoveries-Engraved-By-Jan-Collaert-1566-1628-C 1600 html here 1591 Stradanus c 1600 Collaert creator Jan Collaert II creator Philips Galle after Stradanus Jan Collaert II Philips Galle Jan van der Straet Amerigo Vespucci Discovery of the Americas in art PD-old-100 | ||||
