Published July 13, 2017 in A very innovative early scientific printer/publisher | Full size is 411 × 553 pixels

Ratdolt_sphaericulum

Diagram, showing eclipse of the moon; woodcut, printed in three colours, from Sphaericum opusculum by Johannes de Sacro Bosco, printed by Erhard Ratdolt, Venice 1485
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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