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Image: John Davis - detail from The Coasting Pilot title page 1677-1690

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Description: Miniature portrait of "Cap. Davies", i.e. navigator John Davis (1550-1605), sitting among other "Englands Famous Discoverers" and holding a late 17th-century version of his invention, the Davis quadrant. Detail from the title page of John Seller's atlas The Coasting Pilot.
Title: John Davis - detail from The Coasting Pilot title page 1677-1690
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