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Map of Juan de la Cosa. Juan de la Cosa made several maps of which the only survivor is his famous world map from 1500. It is the oldest known European map that shows the New World. Of special interest is the outline of Cuba, which Christopher Columbus never believed to be an island.
Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
Map of Juan de la Cosa, shown rotated right (in the original manuscript north points left), 1500 Main article: Map of Juan de la Cosa The Juan de la Cosa , a Spanish cartographer, explorer and conquistador , born in Santoña in what was then the Kingdom of Castille, made several maps of which the only survivor is the Mappa Mundi of 1500.
Although there had been maps created after these voyages, such as Juan de la Cosa's map of the world in 1500 (based on Columbus' second voyage) and the Cantino world map (circa 1502), the information on these maps was closely guarded. These maps were commissioned by the Portuguese and Spanish governments, which wanted to create trade monopolies ...
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 ...
de la Cosa, Juan (1500), Map of Juan de la Cosa Nordenskiöld Periplus, plate XLIII. Ribero, Diego (1529), The second Borgian map by Diego Riber Nordenskiöld plates XLVIII-XLIX . Gastaldi, Giacomo (1546), Universale Müller-Baden, Emanuel (Hrsg.): Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens, Bd. 2.
This world map uses embedded text that can be easily translated using a text editor. Translated from Conceptions Colomb map-fr.svg which was created by Ewan_ar_Born . Based upon a map published in Jean Amsler, « La Renaissance (1415-1600) », Histoire universelle des explorations, tome II, Nouvelle Librairie de France, 1968, p. 56/57 (encart ...
Although there had been maps created after these voyages, such as Juan de la Cosa's map of the world in 1500 (based on Columbus' second voyage) and the Cantino world map (circa 1502), the information on these maps was closely held and guarded as state secrets. Often a limited number of copies were made.