Invention of the Compass, preliminary design for 'Lapis Polaris Magnes,' plate 2 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523-1605, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on paper, Recto: A scholar in his richly furnished study, seated at his desk using a compass. (He is identified in the related print as the legendary Flavius of Amalfi, thought to have invented the compass.) A low bowl stands in the right foreground supported by four lion feet over which human heads rise, representing the quarters of the globe: 'ocsidens / tramontane / levanus / meridiens.' A ship model hangs from the ceiling. Verso: an inscription in Stradanus' hand, 'brief vanden 25 jannuare 3 hebben...', Florence, Italy, ca. 1590, figures, Drawing, Drawing

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Invention of the Compass, preliminary design for 'Lapis Polaris Magnes,' plate 2 in the Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523-1605, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk on paper, Recto: A scholar in his richly furnished study, seated at his desk using a compass. (He is identified in the related print as the legendary Flavius of Amalfi, thought to have invented the compass.) A low bowl stands in the right foreground supported by four lion feet over which human heads rise, representing the quarters of the globe: 'ocsidens / tramontane / levanus / meridiens.' A ship model hangs from the ceiling. Verso: an inscription in Stradanus' hand, 'brief vanden 25 jannuare 3 hebben...', Florence, Italy, ca. 1590, figures, Drawing, Drawing

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