World Map 15th Century

Description: The "Columbus map" which perhaps was drawn by Christopher Columbus and his brother Bartolomeo in Lisbon around 1490 before the discovery of the New World, showing the known world in their time.


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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of the Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer and painter Johannes Ruysch published in 1507. Ruysch's work is the second oldest known printed map showing the New World.


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World Map 16th Century

Description: World maps of the Northern and Southern hemisphere published in 1593 by the Dutch cartographer and engraver Gerard de Jode.


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World Map 17th Century

Description: World map Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore made by the Dutch cartographer Claes Janszoon Visscher in the 17th century, published in 1652.


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World Map 18th Century

Description: World map with the trade winds from the German or Dutch cartographer Herman(n) Moll first published in England 1719. Picture from Atlas Minor, 3rd edition, London 1736.


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World Map 14th Century

Description: World map made around 1420 by the Italian cartographer Pietro Vesconte.


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World Map 14th Century

Description: World map from the English chronicler and Benedictine monk Ranulf Higdon, published in the late 14th century.


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World Map 19th Century

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


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World Map 16th Century

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


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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.


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World Map 18th Century

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


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