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Montage of 8 pages (the third to sixth leaves) of the original 1375 Catalan Atlas Detail of the Catalan Atlas, the first compass rose depicted on a map. The Catalan Atlas (Catalan: Atles català, Eastern Catalan: [ˈatləs kətəˈla]) is a medieval world map, or mappa mundi, probably created in the late 1370s or the early 1380s (often conventionally dated 1375), [1] [2] that has been ...
He called the result "cattalo" in 1888. [9] Mossom Martin Boyd of Bobcaygeon , Ontario first started the practice in Canada, publishing about some of his outcomes in the Journal of Heredity. [ 10 ] After his death in 1914, the Canadian government continued experiments in crossbreeding up to 1964, with little success.
The Contarini–Rosselli map of 1506 was the first printed world map showing the New World. The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini and engraved by Francesco Rosselli. It is a copper-engraved map and was published in Venice or Florence in 1506. The only surviving copy is in the British Library.
Why no mention of D.C. "Bud" Basolo (ca. 1923 – December 7, 2012) in the the article? Basolo was a key figure in the development of the Beefalo breed. Having worked on cross-breeding in the 1960s and by the 1970s having succeeded in creating the Beefalo hybrid, he was notable in the business before the World Wide Web and Wikipedia ever existed.
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Latin: [tʰɛˈaːtrũː ˈɔrbɪs tɛˈrːaːrũː], "Theatre of the Lands of the World") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.Written by Abraham Ortelius, strongly encouraged by Gillis Hooftman [2] and originally printed on 20 May 1570 in Antwerp, [3] it consisted of a collection of uniform map sheets and supporting text bound to form a book for which ...
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
The Goode homolosine projection is a pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite map projection used for world maps. Image 2 United Nations Human Development Index map by country (2016) Image 3 The world map by Gerardus Mercator (1569), the first map in the well-known Mercator projection
The map is based on traditional accounts and earlier maps such as the one of the Beatus of Liébana codex, and is very similar to the Ebstorf Map, the Psalter world map, and the Sawley map (erroneously for considerable time called the Henry of Mainz map). It is not a literal map, and does not conform to geographical knowledge of the time.