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The De Virga world map was made by Albertinus de Virga between 1411 and 1415. Albertin de Virga, a Venetian, is also known for a 1409 map of the Mediterranean, also made in Venice. The world map is circular, drawn on a piece of parchment 69.6 cm × 44 cm (27.4 in × 17.3 in). It consists of the map itself, about 44 cm (17 in) in diameter, and ...
On his 1516 world map, the Carta Marina, Waldseemüller identified the land he had called Parias on his 1507 map as Terra de Cuba and said it was part of Asia (Asie partis); that is, he explicitly identified the land discovered by Columbus as the eastern part of Asia. [58]: 8
The inhabited part of his world was circular, disk-shaped, and presumably located on the upper surface of the cylinder. [19]: 24 For constructing his world map, Anaximander is considered by many to be the first mapmaker. [24]: 23 Little is known about the map, which has not survived.
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. Approximately one third of the map survives, housed in the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul. After the empire's 1517 conquest of Egypt, Piri Reis presented the 1513 world map to Ottoman Sultan Selim I (r. 1512–1520). It is unknown how Selim used ...
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...
A more complete illustrated list of world maps of that time may be compiled from the comprehensive survey of Shirley. Comparisons with his own map show how freely he borrowed from these maps and from his own 1538 world map [34] and his 1541 globe. [citation needed] A 1550 portolan of the eastern Mediterranean showing the high quality of coastal ...
On this day in 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.The Italian explorer first found a Bahamian island, thinking he had reached East Asia. That same day, his ...