Astrolabium. Americus Vespuccius, cum quattuor Stellis crucem silente nocte repperit, 1605
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De ontdekking van het Zuiderkruis door Amerigo Vespucci
Uit "Americae Retectio", plaat nr. 18: Een sterrenhemel omringt Amerigo Vespucci die de omtrek van de aarde meet op basis van het sterrenbeeld van het Zuiderkruis. De ontdekkingsreiziger wordt omringd door diverse technologische instrumenten en zijn slapende bemanning. Een inzet bevat een portret van Dante Alighieri, die over hetzelfde sterrenbeeld schreef in zijn "Goddelijke Komedie".
Ioan Stradanus inuent, Ian. Collaert Sculp. Phis Galle Excudit.
Night sky scene from Stradanus' "Americae Retectio", circa 1605. Plate nr 18: A starry sky surrounds Amerigo Vespucci measuring the earth's circumference based on the constellation of the Southern Cross. The explorer is surrounded by various technological instruments and his sleeping crew. An inset includes a portrait of Dante Alighieri, who wrote about the same constellation in his "Divine Comedy". Johannes Stradanus or van der Straat, (1523-1605) was a Flemish artist but spent much of his life in Florence. Stradanus sent his original drawings of "Nova Reperta" ("New Inventions"), a Renaissance celebration of recent discoveries both scientific and geographical, to Antwerp where they were first engraved and published by Phillipe Galle. This edition was engraved by Adrian Collaert, who worked for Galle. Plate no. 18,