(Highest res.: jpg, 3000 x 2190 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,83 MB)
Thursday, July 8, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: World map made by Laurent Fries, woodcut 1522.
(Highest res.: jpg, 3000 x 2190 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,83 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 3000 x 2190 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 3,83 MB)
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
World Map 17th Century
Description: World map made by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1664.
(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4226 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 4 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4226 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 4 MB)
Saturday, June 12, 2010
World Map 17th Century
Description: Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula made by the Dutch timber merchant Joannes de Ram, first published in 1683.
(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4421 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 16,1 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 5500 x 4421 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 16,1 MB)
Thursday, June 3, 2010
World Map 17th Century
Description: World map from 1666 by Peter Goos, a Dutch cartographer, engraver and bookseller.
(Highest res.: jpg, 459 x 390 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 110 KB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 459 x 390 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 110 KB)
Monday, May 31, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: The Caverio Map (also called Caveri Map or Canerio Map) is a world map drawn by the Genoese cartographer Nicolay de Caveri, circa 1505.
(Highest res.: jpg, 1236 x 654 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 484 KB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 1236 x 654 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 484 KB)
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: Orbis Terrarum published by the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius in 1594.
(Highest res.: jpg, 2671 x 1891 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 2,12 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 2671 x 1891 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 2,12 MB)
Monday, April 5, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: Map of the world 1552 by the Siebenbuerger Saxon humanist and Protestant Reformer Johannes Honterus.
(Highest res.: jpg, 800 x 649 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 304 KB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 800 x 649 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 304 KB)
Sunday, March 7, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: "Orbis Terrarum" from the Dutch astronomer, cartographer and clergyman Petrus Plancius, published in 1590.
(Highest res.: jpg, 1747 x 994 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,27 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 1747 x 994 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 2,27 MB)
Thursday, January 7, 2010
World Map 15th Century
Description: T-O world map based on the medieval world view of the Spanish Archbishop Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636), published between 1459-1463 in La Fleur des Histoires by Jean Mansel.
(Highest res.: jpg, 600 x 819 pixel, 75 dpi, file size: 121 KB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 600 x 819 pixel, 75 dpi, file size: 121 KB)
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
World Map 18th Century
Description: World map from the French cartographer Nicolas de Fer, published in 1722.
(Highest res.: jpg, 2048 x 1365 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 1 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 2048 x 1365 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 1 MB)
Sunday, November 1, 2009
World Map 15th Century
Description: World map of the German cartographer Andreas Walsperger made in 1448.
(Highest res.: jpg, 1013 x 1024 pixel, 200 dpi, file size: 1,05 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 1013 x 1024 pixel, 200 dpi, file size: 1,05 MB)
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