Renaissance Perspectives I

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Vitruvian man from notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, c 1490 Lucia Paccioli demonstrates
dividing line to demonstrate divine proportion. c 1494
Plus Ultra, motto of Charles V showing Pillars of Hercules, after 1516 Japanese kimono with Portuguese ship design, 15th century
Arabian constellations Centauros
and Ceran combining astrological and navigational , 15th century
Medieval trade routes and African coast vital to later renaissance trade