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Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus|Jan Collaert I|Philips Galle

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of the Compass, plate 2

ca. 1600
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27 × 20 cm (10.6 × 7.9 in)

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