This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. ... Europe had entered the Age of Discovery and the expansion of printed materials brought fantastical ideas to an audience eager for more.

World map, as conceived in the Hellenistic era by Ptolemy, and whose oldest known exemplar was drawn during the 15th century by following Ptolemy’s list of coordinates and metric.

While monarchies reigned in 16th-century Europe, painters and dramatists began portraying the middle-class home with unusual “seriousness and sympathy,” says Richard Helgerson, a professor of ...

Think again Tycho Brahe, whose statue overlooks the Østervold Observatory in Denmark, was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution in 16th-century Europe. A new book explores the cultural and ...