World Map 16th Century

Description: Another world map by the French physician and mathematician Laurent Fries published in his Ptolemy Atlas in 1541. 

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Heart-shaped world map projection from the French scientist Oronce Finé first published in 1536.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: The Fool's Cap Map of the World dates from ca. 1580-1590 and is one of the big mysteries in the history of cartography. It is unknown why, when and by whom the map was made, but could be a kind of social criticism of its time.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map published in 1544 by the German scientist and cartographer Sebastian Münster. His work "Cosmographia" of 1544 was one of the most successful books of the 16th century with numerous editions in different languages.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: "Cosmographical map or universal description of the world with the actual path of the winds" made by the French hydrographer and carthographer Jean Cossin in 1570.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Gores for constructing a globe published after 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. His world maps and globes are known as the first maps using the name "America". 

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Orbis Typus Universalis - world map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1506, first published in 1513.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map from the French cartographer Nicholas Desliens, published in 1566, showing the world upside down.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: 1520 World Map from the German humanist, astronomer and cartographer Petrus Apianus, also known as Peter Apian.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map published in 1589 by the Dutch cartographer and engraver Gerard de Jode.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of the Portuguese cartographer Domingo Teixeira drawn in 1573 with the sea routes of Vasco da Gama and Hernando de Magallanes. Moreover the map shows the the meridian of Tordesillas, which devided the new discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map made by the French mapmaker Guillaume Brouscon in 1543.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Theatre of the World) made by the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570, who is generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map made by Laurent Fries, woodcut 1522.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: The Caverio Map (also called Caveri Map or Canerio Map) is a world map drawn by the Genoese cartographer Nicolay de Caveri, circa 1505.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Orbis Terrarum published by the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius in 1594.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: Map of the world 1552 by the Siebenbuerger Saxon humanist and Protestant Reformer Johannes Honterus.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: "Orbis Terrarum" from the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius, published in 1590.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: The "Dieppe maps" are several maps produced in the school of cartographers in Dieppe, France during the 16th century as this world map made by the Scottish cartographer Johne Rotz, published 1542 in the Boke of Idrography.


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World Map 16th Century

Description: "A Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection", also known as the Wright–Molyneux Map. This Map is the first world map produced in England and based on the projection of the English mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright.


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