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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 500 x 356 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 70,5 KB)

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

World Map 13th Century

Description: The "Psalter World Map" is a detailed medieval world map drawn by an that has been found in a psalter drawn around 1260 by an unknown author.


(Highest res.: jpg, 3791 x 5496 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 19,4 MB)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 2800 x 1880 pixel, 2212 dpi, file size: 1 MB)

Monday, June 15, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 1970 x 1260 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 878 KB)

Thursday, June 11, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 640 x 472 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 343 KB)

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 1891 x 2288 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 971 KB)


(Highest res.: jpg, 3795 x 4600 pixel, 600 dpi, file size: 3,13 MB)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: jpg, 3391 x 2733 pixel, 305 dpi, file size: 4,85 MB)

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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.


(Highest res.: png, 1400 x 1083 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,22 MB)

Monday, March 9, 2009

World Map 14th Century

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


(Highest res.: jpg, 2218 x 2213 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 3,85 MB)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

World Map 14th Century

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


(Highest res.: jpg, 1923 x 2610 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 3,95 MB)

Friday, January 23, 2009

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)