![Map left folded. From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009. (via theartofgooglebooks)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e976caeb0c37d332b8c259ac9beddb09/tumblr_mm0segoHjO1qixa76o1_500.png)
Map left folded. From p. 297 of Iohn Huighen Van Linschoten, His Discours of Voyages Into Ye Easte [and] West Indies: Deuided Into Foure Bookes by Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1598). Original from the Complutense University of Madrid. Digitized February 10, 2009. (via theartofgooglebooks)
“Diodon sowerbi” and “Aodon dalei” which are actually the male and female (respectively) of the same species, Mesoplodon bidens. Jardine, W. (1837) The Natural History of the Ordinary Cetacea or Whales. (via biologicalmarginalia)
August Strindberg, Storm in the Skerries. “The Flying Dutchman”, 1892. {invisiblestories}
Thomas Jefferson Scalloped-Top Sea Passport Signed “Th: Jefferson” as president. Countersigned by James Madison as secretary of state. {adventures-of-the-blackgang}
Detail of a miniature of Alexander exploring the ocean in a glass barrel, accompanied by a cat and a cock; in this version of the story, his unfaithful wife tries to murder him by cutting the cord connecting him with the ship, and it is by killing the cat (not a dog) that he is able to rise to the surface; from Le livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre, France (Paris), c. 1420, Royal MS 20 B. xx, f. 77v. (article by Nicole Eddy, British Library, click through) {inacom}
“The moving Moon went up the sky.” {via invisiblestories}
Calligraphic galleon, Ottoman period, Calligrapher: Abdul Qadir Hisari
(Source: roxygen, via thearabesque)
From the Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier
