Photograph of a moment of prayer in a makeshift mosque
Photograph of a moment of prayer in a makeshift mosque
Online exhibition that shows the art of the sacred books of Christianism, Judaism and Islam
Virtual exhibition of the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt
The Accademia del Cimento and the experimental method
Robert Boyle and his essay General Heads for a Natural History of a Country, Great or Small codifying the scientific literature of travel
The second expedition of Captain Cook (1772-1775), who sailed the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Sea, narrated by Georg Forster
How to make a medieval manuscript
The first modern atlas: Theatrum orbis terrarum (Theatre of the World) by Abraham Ortelius
The two globes were made in 1683 by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli and were offered to Louis XIV by Cardinal d’Estré
Terrestrial globes by Willem Janszoon, updated to the geographical discoveries of the 17th century