(Highest res.: png, 1270 x 1859 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 5,27 MB)
Sunday, October 3, 2010
World Map 12th Century
Description: World map made in 1190 by the German or Burgundian theologian Honorius Augustodunenesis, also known as Honorius of Autun.
(Highest res.: png, 1270 x 1859 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 5,27 MB)
(Highest res.: png, 1270 x 1859 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 5,27 MB)
Thursday, September 2, 2010
World Map 16th Century
Description: World map made by the French mapmaker Guillaume Brouscon in 1543.
(Highest res.: jpg, 8497 x 7924 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 23,4 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 8497 x 7924 pixel, 300 dpi, file size: 23,4 MB)
Saturday, August 14, 2010
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.
(Highest res.: jpg, 6736 x 5160 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 32,5 MB)
(Highest res.: jpg, 6736 x 5160 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 32,5 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)
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