Explorations Introduction

Ptolemy’s Geographia

Harmonia Macrocosmica

The Great Aerial Navigator, Atmospheric Machine!

The Hunt-Lenox Globe

Gaius Julius Hyginus’s De astronomia

Ancient cookery manuscript

Saturn, from the series The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings

Gart der Gesundheit

Council House of Santa Maria Toluca

Peter Apian’s Astronomicum Caesareum

The Birds of America by John James Audubon

Transparency of the moon

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La conquista del Perú

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First edition of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species

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Map of Tenochtitlán published with a letter from Hernán Cortés

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Racking (pacing); saddle; brown horse, Pronto from Eadweard James Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion

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Lima justificada: en el suceso del 25 de julio.

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Letter from Christopher Columbus to Luis de Santángel

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Thomas Geminus’s Compendiosa

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Photograph of the Colorado River by William H. Bell

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Euclid’s Elementa Geometriae

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Chemical Atlas

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