World Map 18th Century

Description: World map of the Turkish encyclopedist Ibrahim Hakki Erzurumi published in 1756.















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World Map 2nd Century

Description: Ptolemy world map ca. 150 AD. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), was a mathmatician, geographer, astronomer and astrologer who lived in the Hellenistic culture of Roman Egypt. One of his main works is his Geographia, a compilation of the known geography in the Roman Empire. This map is a reconstruction made in the 15th century.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: The world map of the Spanish cartographer, conquistador and explorer Juan de la Cosa created in 1500 is the earliest world map showing part of the Americas. Juan de la Cosa sailed the first 3 voyages with Columbus and was the captain of the Santa María.

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World Map 12th Century

Description: World map made by the Arab cartographer and geographer Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi in 1154 under the court of King Roger II of Sicily.






















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World Map 15th Century

Description: World map made between 1457 and 1459 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. The map is a circular planisphere drawan on parchment and set in a wooden frame.

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Detail Europe

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World Map 15th Century

Description: The Kangnido Map created in Korea in 1402 is one of the oldest known world maps from East Asia.

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Details

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World Map 17th Century

Description: World map published in 1627 by the German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler.

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World Map 14th Century

Description: The Hereford Mappa Mundi is a world map dating to ca. 1300, derived from the T and O maps and the largest known medieval map.

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Detail showing the British Isles

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map published by Nicola van Sype in 1581, showing the Drake circumnavigation 1577-1580 as a dotted line.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Bunting clover leaf map with Jerusalem in the center, sourrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, published 1581 in Magdeburg/Germany.

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World Map 18th Century

Description: World map published by Vasily Kipriynov at the beginning of the 18th century.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: World map created in 1689 by the Dutch cartographer Gerrit van Schagen.

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