World Map 16th Century

Description: World map made by the French mapmaker Guillaume Brouscon in 1543.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (Theatre of the World) made by the Flemish cartographer and geographer Abraham Ortelius in 1570, who is generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas.

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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)

World Map 17th Century

Description: World map made by the Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu in 1664.

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World Map 17th Century

Description: Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula made by the Dutch timber merchant Joannes de Ram, first published in 1683.

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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)

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.

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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)

World Map 16th Century

Description: Map of the world 1552 by the Siebenbuerger Saxon humanist and Protestant Reformer Johannes Honterus.

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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)

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)