This is the title page to Nova Reperta [New Discoveries] by the Flemish artist Stradanus [Jan van der Straet], published in the 1580s. The volume presented a series of 24 engravings celebrating the explosion of technology and discovery occurring at this time —

the discovery of the Americas

the magnet and other instruments of navigation

gunpowder

book-printing and copper engraving

clock-making

new medicine (guaiacum for syphilis)

distillation

silk-making

stirrups

water-mills and wind-mills

olive oil and sugar production

oil pigments

eyeglasses

armor-polishing machinery

[The above links are to images in the Posner Memorial Collection, at Carnegie Mellon University.]