Instruments, Travel and Science

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The engraved frontispiece of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620) shows two ships, one sailing off the pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar in a boundless ocean, the other, in the foreground, preparing to return from its voyage of exploration freighted with wealth.

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