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With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.
The monk was Fra Mauro, a 15th-century version of Google Earth. Famous for his cartographic skills, he had been commissioned by King Alfonso of Portugal to produce a map of the world.
In the 15th century, a medieval monk known as Fra Mauro bucked cartographic tradition and carefully crafted a massive eight-foot by eight-foot map of the then-known world. Created for King Afonso V of Portugal, this Mappa Mundi (World Map) features over 3,000 locations across Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Maps made in the 15th century; Maps of the world before Columbus; Maps of the world by century
The map of the world created by the astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 - c. 170 CE). From a 15th-century book by Leinhart Holle. Made by the German cartographer Donnus Nicholas Germanus.
Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days. Empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics.
Published in 1507 and composed of 12 individual sheets, Martin Waldseemüller's world map is the first known to use the name "America" in describing the New World.
Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that Christopher Columbus studied this map and that it influenced his thinking before his fateful voyage.
Included in one of only four Ptolemaic atlases to be printed in the late 15th century, this map represents the Ptolemaic concept of the world. It was accompanied by a series of striking, hand-colored woodcuts that became some of the earliest and most famous geographical images.
From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.