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Saturday, December 11, 2010

World Map 18th Century

Description: World map (1745) from an unknown author.

(Highest res.: jpg, 1000 x 672 pixel, 96 dpi, file size: 165 KB)

Saturday, November 13, 2010

World Map 11th Century

Description: "Cotton" of Anglo-Saxon world map (c. 1040) appears in a copy of a classical work on geography (British Library; Cotton MSS, Tib. B. V, folio 56.)

(Highest res.: png, 1827 x 2256 pixel, 72 dpi, file size: 6,31 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)