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He also divided the world into three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa. He depicted the boundary of Europe as the line from the Pillars of Hercules through the Bosphorus and the area between the Caspian Sea and the Indus River. He regarded the Nile as the boundary between Asia and Africa. He speculated that the extent of Europe was much ...
Map of Africa by John Thomson, 1813. Much of the continent is simply labeled "unknown parts". Much of the continent is simply labeled "unknown parts". The map still includes Ptolemy 's Mountains of the Moon , which have since been credited to ranges varying from the Rwenzori to Kilimanjaro then the peaks of Ethiopia at the head of the Blue Nile .
Kept in the Topkapı Palace Museum, [25] the map is the remaining western third of a world map drawn on gazelle-skin parchment approximately 87 cm × 63 cm. [e] The surviving portion shows the Atlantic Ocean with the coasts of Europe, Africa, and South America. [26] The map is a portolan chart with compass roses from which lines of bearing ...
A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By H. Moll Geographer". Negroland, Nigrita, [1] or Nigritia, [2] is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans' descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.
Curiously, the labels for Africa and Europe are reversed, with Europe scribed in red and gold as 'Africa', and vice versa. An open-access high-resolution digital image of the map with more than 1,000 place and name annotations is included among the thirteen medieval maps of the world edited in the Virtual Mappa project.
A classic "T-O" map with Jerusalem at center, east toward the top, Europe at bottom left and Africa on the right. A T and O map or O–T or T–O map (orbis terrarum, orb or circle of the lands; with the letter T inside an O), also known as an Isidoran map, is a type of early world map that represents world geography as first described by the ...
The map is very large – the full frame measures 2.4 by 2.4 metres (8 by 8 ft). This makes Fra Mauro's mappa mundi the world's largest extant map from early modern Europe. The map is drawn on high-quality vellum and is set in a gilded wooden frame. The large drawings are highly detailed and use a range of expensive colors; blue, red, turquoise ...
Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, or Guillelmo Delille (French pronunciation: [ɡijom dəlil]; 28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris [1]) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.