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La Sfera (The Sphere) [Object]
Small folio, original vellum manuscript on paper containing water colour maps and drawings as well as cosmological diagrams in colours. Florentine merchant and diarist Gregorio Dati wrote his highly popular 1,152-line...
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De Somnio Scipionis (Commentary on ‘The Dream of Scipio’) [Object]
A twelfth-century copy of Macrobius’s popular book, first written early in the 5th century CE. Small folio, diced russia. Hand-coloured manuscript on vellum illustrated by a series of fine illuminated...
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Typus Cosmographicus Universalis (World Map) [Object]
One of the museum founders, Dallas Pratt, was delighted to acquire this world map by Sebastian Münster, not because it reveals new geographical discoveries – it is somewhat outdated –...
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Imagines Constellationum Australium (Southern Celestial Planishpere) [Object]
Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian Jan Coronensis Honter used woodblocks to create his paired star maps, as did Albrecht Dürer before him. (Durer's work, 'The Constellations of the Northern Sky...
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Florida et Apalche (Florida and Apalche) [Object]
One of nineteen maps included in the first regional atlas of America, which featured eight maps devoted to North America. The atlas is called a supplement ('Augmentum') to the 'Geographia'...
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Ptolemaic World Map from ‘Geographia’ [Object]
When the works of the classical geographer, astronomer and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy began to emerge from obscurity in the early 1400s, his most famous book 'Geographia' (sometimes called 'Cosmographia') was...
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Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri… [Object]
‘Modern’ maps of Spain, France, Italy and Palestine were included in this edition of Ptolemy, which was translated by Francesco Berlinghieri into Italian verse and produced in Florence in 1480. Contains...
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Portolan Chart [Object]
Portolan manuscript chart on vellum depicting the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Atlantic (north-west extending to ‘Isla de Brazill’; south-west to Canaries), North Sea to ‘Costa de Frixa’, and the Red Sea. Portolans...
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Views of Mexico City (formerly Tenochtitlán) and Cusco from ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’ (Cities of the World) [Object]
Maps of Mexico City and Cusco from ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum’. Hand coloured copperplate engraving. Both maps represent the cities and the surrounding hills. Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) was founded by the Aztecs...
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July 17, 2019
Celebrating 50 years since the mission of Apollo 11
[19th century – taken from Emerin Semple scrapbook] We’re celebrating the first lunar landing this year at the American Museum […]
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September 12, 2018
New name, new gardens, new discoveries
With the launch of the transformed Mount Vernon and new New American Garden, we’ve taken the decision to change our […]
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June 1, 2018
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; oh and a loud bang and hot dog too
The 4th of July is one of those dates to remember; it seems to stick in the memory even if […]
Latest blog posts
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July 17, 2019
Celebrating 50 years since the mission of Apollo 11
[19th century – taken from Emerin Semple scrapbook] We’re celebrating the first lunar landing this year at the American Museum […]
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September 12, 2018
New name, new gardens, new discoveries
With the launch of the transformed Mount Vernon and new New American Garden, we’ve taken the decision to change our […]
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June 1, 2018
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; oh and a loud bang and hot dog too
The 4th of July is one of those dates to remember; it seems to stick in the memory even if […]
