World Map 15th Century

Description: World map of the German cartographer Andreas Walsperger made in 1448.

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World Map 14th Century

Description: The Catalan Atlas produced in 1375 by the Majorcan cartographers Abraham and Jehuda Cresques is the most important Catalan world map of the Middle Ages. The world map originally consisted of various leaves.

Europe
Middle East

East Asia
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World Map 18th Century

Description: The so-called "Zheng He map" is a Chinese world map, probably produced in 1763 at the base of Zheng He's voyages.


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World Map 18th Century

Description: Engraved world map by the German cartographer Leonhard Euler first published 1753 in his school atlas "Geographischer Atlas".


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World Map 15th Century

Description: The "Genoese map" is a world map from an unkown Italian cartographer made in 1457.


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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 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.


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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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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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