World Map 19th Century

Description: Dutch world map from Otto Petri published in 1860.


(Highest res.: jpg, 2484 x 2042 pixel, 183 dpi, file size: 1,03 MB)

World Map 16th Century

Description: World map from the Italian captain and cartographer Antonio Millo, published between 1582-1584.


(Highest res.: jpg, 618 x 421 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 93 KB)

World Map 16th Century

Description: World map from the Italian cartographer Battista Agnese published in the Portolan Atlas 1544. The map shows the route Magellan took around the world and the route from Cadiz/Spain to Peru.


(Highest res.: jpg, 3585 x 2450 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 2,4 MB)

World Map 18th Century

Description: World map from the German geographer and cartographer Johann Baptist Homann, published in Nürnberg 1707.


(Highest res.: png, 1620 x 1400 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,8 MB)

World Map 7th Century

Description: T-O map from the 7th century, the early Middle Ages, with the description of the world according the Etymologiae of Isidore of Sevilla, who was Archbishop of Seville/Spain for more than three decades. This T and O map is a copy from the 12th century.

(Highest res.: jpg, 608 x 608 pixel, 81 dpi, file size: 72 KB)

World Map 12th Century

Description: World map from the Italian monk Beato di Liebana, made in the 12th century.


(Highest res.: jpg, 563 x 387 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 115 KB)

World Map 15th Century

Description: Historical world map from Johannes de Armsshein, published in 1482 in Ulm/Germany at the base of Ptolemy's view of the world.


(Highest res.: jpg, 8073 x 5813 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 18 MB)

World Map 17th Century

Description: World map of Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612) a Flemish artist, engraver and cartographer who worked at the base of the Mercator projection. The map is part of an atlas published in 1630.


(Highest res.: jpg, 5248 x 3688 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 5,02 MB)

World Map 15th Century

Description: World map of Hartmann Schedel published in the Schedel's World Chronicle in 1493 showing Europe, Asia and Africa. Schedel (1440-1540) was a German physician, humanist and historian, one of the first cartographers who used the printing press.


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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.

(Highest res.: jpg, 747 x 431 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 111 KB)

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.

(Highest res.: jpg, 2000 x 1485 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 4,08 MB)