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| Image by Davidguam via Wikimedia Commons |
This artifact attributed to Leonardo is engraved on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs. And it features a single sentence, in Latin, above Southeast Asia: Hic Sunt Dracones–“Here be dragons.” It is the first depiction of the “New World” on a globe, indicating that da Vinci knew about Columbus’ voyages when the globe was made in 1504.
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