World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of Diego de Ribero made in 1529. Ribero was a Spanish cartographer of Portuguese origin, who worked for Charles V at the Casa de Contratación in Seville. His map is considered as the first scientific world map based on empiric latitude observations. It delineates precisely the coasts of North, South and Central America. Neither Australia nor the Antartica appear.

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Large version from 1539

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of Pietro Coppo (1470-1555) from Venice/Italy, published in 1520.

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World Map 18th Century

Description: World map made by the French geographer Guillermo Delisle in 1707.
















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World Map 16th Century

Description: Waldseemüller map from 1507. The carthographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann from southern Germany collected map data over several years, including about the most recent discoveries, to realize this world map. They incorporated the first time in history the name America on a map.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: Ancient world map made by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit in 1662, during the Golden Age of Dutch history (1584-1702) when Dutch trade, science and art were among the most acclaimed in the world.



















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World Map 6th Century

Description: World Map by Cosmas Indicopleustes arround the year 550. Cosmas was a Greek monk from Alexandria and travelled several times to India as a merchant. In his worldview the world was flat.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis made in 1606 by the Dutch cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu, who worked together with his son Joan Blaeu. First published in 1635 in their atlas Theatrum orbis terrarum.

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World Map 4th Century

Description: The Tabula Peutingeriana
This Roman map of the acient world shows the road network in the Roman Empire in the 4th century and covers Europe, parts of Asia (India) and North-Africa.

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Detail with Rome

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World Map 16th Century

Description: The Cantino planisphere is the earliest surviving map showing the new Portuguese discoveries in the world, including a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast. The antique map is named after the Italian Alberto Cantino, who smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502.

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World Map 15th Century

Description: The Bianco World Map published by the Italian sailor and cartographer Andrea Bianco in 1436.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World Map created by the Flemish cartographer Rumold Mercator in 1587, son of the famous cartographer Gerardus Mercator, who developed the modern projection of the world.

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