Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan

mondonoir:

“Here is contained how the method of navigation was discovered towards India and the discovery of unknown islands and terra firma not known before.”

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Terra Firma Nulli Antecessoribus Cognita, Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Manuscript written in 1512 by Bernardo of Albenga.



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