This presentation provides an overview of the Age of Discovery in the 15th-16th century, including exploration, science, alchemy, the printing press, and cartography.

1. The Age of Discovery
15th-16th Century

2. Exploring the World

3. Portuguese Expeditions

5. Vasco da Gama’s Route, 1497

9. Spanish Expeditions

13. Colonization and the Slave Trade

15. African Slave Regions, 15th-19th c.

16. Slavery in Brazil
Jean-Baptise Debrel, 19th c.

17. Portrait of an African Slave Woman
Attr. Annibale Carracci, c. 1580s

18. Advancing Science

19. The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

30. Joannes Faustus
Unknown German Painter, 17th Century

31. The Printing Press

32. Johannes Gutenberg, 16th-c. Engraving

38. Gutenberg Bible, 1455

39. Printers in 1568

41. Cartography

42. Ptolemy, c. 150, Reconstructed 15th c.

43. Cantino World Map, 1502 (Portugal)

44. Johannes Ruysch, 1507 (Low Countries)

45. Pietro Coppo, 1520 (Venice)

46. Diogo Ribeiro, 1529 (Portugal/Spain)

47. Abraham Ortelius, 1570 (Low Countries)

48. Mathematics

49. Arithmetic
Pinturicchio, 1495

50. Portrait of Luca Pacioli
Jacopo de’ Barbari, 1495

51. A Course in the Art of Measurement
with Compass and Ruler
Albrecht Dürer, 1525

54. Alchemy and Astrology

55. The Zodiac and the Body
Gregor Reisch, 1503

56. Portrait of Emperor Rudolf II
Hans von Aachen, 1590s

57. John Dee
Unknown Artist, 16th Century

58. The Alchemist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1550s-60s

59. Francesco I in His Alchemical Laboratory
Stradanus, 1570

60. The Alchemist
Stradanus, 1570

61. Alchemist’s Laboratory
Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1595

62. Astronomy

63. Nicholas Kratzer, Astronomer to Henry VIII
Hans Holbein the Younger, 1538

64. On the Revolutions of Celestial
Bodies
Nicolas Copernicus, 1543

65. Copernicus (Conversation with God)
Jan Matejko, 1872

66. The Copernican System, 1543

67. Anatomy

68. On the Structure of the Human
Body
Andreas Vesalius, 1543

73. Medicine

74. Ten Books of Surgery
Ambroise Paré, 1564

75. Leg Prosthetics

77. Paracelsus

78. Syphilis,
Albrecht Dürer, 1496

81. Zoology

82. Albrecht Dürer

83. Young Hare, 1502

84. Rhino, 1515

85. Hans Hoffmann
Late 16th Century

88. Ulisse Androvandi
Late 16th Century

89. Red Hartebeest and Mountain Coati

90. Gallus Turcicus

91. Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Late 16th Century

92. Indian Mongoose

93. Red-Flanked Dulker (Antelope)

94. Blue-Headed Quail Dove

95. Keeping Time

96. Prague Astronomical Clock, 1410

98. St. Mark’s Astronomical Clock, Venice, 1496

99. Hampton Court Astrological Clock, 1540

100. Clock in the Form of a Ship for Rudolf II
Attr. Hans Schlottheim, c. 1580

103. Table Clock
David Ramsay, 1610

104. Ballistics

105. Mortar Trajectory, Niccolò Tartaglia

106. Music

107. The Sense of Hearing, Detail
Jan Bruegel the Elder, c. 1617