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The Bianco map (1436). The Bianco World Map is a map created by Andrea Bianco, a 15th-century Venetian sailor and cartographer who resided on Chios.This map was a large piece of a nautical atlas including ten pages made of vellum (each measuring 26 × 38 cm).
A volvelle from a sixteenth-century edition of Sacrobosco's De Sphaera. De sphaera mundi (Latin title meaning On the Sphere of the World, sometimes rendered The Sphere of the Cosmos; the Latin title is also given as Tractatus de sphaera, Textus de sphaera, or simply De sphaera) is a medieval introduction to the basic elements of astronomy written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) c ...
At a celebratory banquet, the Venetian mayor presented them with the keys to the city and the next morning personally walked them into the Biblioteca Nazionale to view Marco Polo's last will and testament, which they had been denied access to before they left on their epic journey. [9]
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Astronomers believed that the seven naked-eye planets (including the Moon and the Sun) were carried around the spherical Earth on invisible orbs, while an eighth sphere contained the fixed stars. Motion was provided to the whole system by the Primum Mobile, itself set within the Empyrean, and the fastest moving of all the spheres. [5]
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853.. The Stones of Venice examines Venetian architecture in detail, describing for example over eighty churches.
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According to historian Christopher Wright it was a perfect example of the "entwining of crusading purposes in the Levant with the vigorous pursuit of Venetian interests along the way", as the Venetians used the expedition to try and put pressure on Emperor John II Komnenos to restore the trading privileges that he had revoked by trying to seize ...