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  2. World map - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of historical maps - Wikipedia

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    Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...

  4. The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake - Wikipedia

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    It was first published in London in 1628 by Nicholas Bourne. [3] The book gives an account of life at sea and privateering against Spanish ships and settlements, [4] and provides detailed descriptions of various peoples encountered by the expedition [5] [6] It was also published with newly-produced maps based on the discoveries of the voyage ...

  5. File:World map.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

  6. Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) - Wikipedia

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    It was most important in reviving geography in 16th-century Europe. Among the notable maps within Cosmographia is the map "Tabula novarum insularum", which is credited as the first map to show the American continents as geographically discrete. [2] Some of its editions also contain one of the earliest preserved texts in the Latvian language. [3]

  7. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. These 5 billionaires were the biggest net-worth winners today ...

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    The world's richest people saw huge gains in their net worth on Wednesday as markets cheered the outcome of the 2024 election. Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Jensen ...

  9. 16th century - Wikipedia

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    The world map by the Italian Amerigo Vespucci (from whose name the word America is derived) and Belgian Gerardus Mercator shows (besides the classical continents Europe, Africa, and Asia) the Americas as America sive India Nova', New Guinea, and other islands of Southeast Asia, as well as a hypothetical Arctic continent and a yet undetermined Terra Australis.