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Cosmography and Astrology

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Detail of a printed book shows a colored illustrated dragons on a circular diagram with text in Latin.

Astronomicum cæsareum

Peter Apian
1540
Printed text shows a circular diagram below text in Latin.

Breves in sphaeram meditatiunculae

Bartholomaeus Mercator
1563
Cover of Instructio[n]

Instructio[n], y memoria, de las relaciones que se han de hazer, para la descripcion de las Indias

Juan López de Velasco
1577
Detail of a colored manuscript map shows the Black Sea with labels. Decorative border includes red, blue, and green ink and gilded details.

Battista Agnese atlas

Battista Agnese
1543-1545

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Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas

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map of the world with continents upside down
Exhibition opening

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Spanish calendar, wind heads in the corners

JCB collaborates with UNAM and others on Astronomical Images Workshop

February 15, 2019
16th century charts documenting the calculations of solar and lunar calculations
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Eclipses in Print

October 24, 2018
photograph of the spine and first page of la cosmography vniuerselle d'André theuet, a book printed in Paris in 1575

Conserving La cosmographie vniuerselle d'André Theuet

May 1, 2017

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Travel Literature and Fictional Accounts

Pedagogical Materials