World Map 19th Century

Description: Political world map illustrated by the English artist Walter Crane showing the extent of the British Empire in 1886.

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World Map 16th Century

Description: World map of the Portuguese cartographer Domingo Teixeira drawn in 1573 with the sea routes of Vasco da Gama and Hernando de Magallanes. Moreover the map shows the the meridian of Tordesillas, which devided the new discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.

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World Map 18th Century

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

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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.)

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World Map 12th Century

Description: World map made in 1190 by the German or Burgundian theologian Honorius Augustodunenesis, also known as Honorius of Autun.

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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.

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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.

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