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Map of the world by Henricus Martellus Germanus, preserved in the British Library Map of the world by Henricus Martellus Germanus, preserved at Yale University. Henricus Martellus Germanus (fl. 1480–1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496.
Martellus world map (1490) The world map of Henricus Martellus Germanus (Heinrich Hammer), c. 1490, was remarkably similar to the terrestrial globe later produced by Martin Behaim in 1492, the Erdapfel. Both show heavy influences from Ptolemy, and both possibly derive from maps created around 1485 in Lisbon by Bartolomeo Columbus. Although ...
Henricus Martellus Germanus (Germany, fl. 1480–1496 ... Willem Blaeu and Johannes Blaeu's 1606–1626 world map Herman Moll's A new map of the whole world with ...
On the 1489 map of the world by Henricus Martellus, which was based on Ptolemy's work, Asia terminated in its southeastern point in a cape, the Cape of Cattigara. Cattigara was understood by Ptolemy to be a port on the Sinus Magnus, or Great Gulf, the actual Gulf of Thailand, at eight and a half degrees north of the Equator, on the coast of ...
Henricus Martellus Germanus also adopted the trapezoid projection in 1480 for his manuscript version of Geographia. The second recension (1466 to 1468) includes the twenty-seven tabulae antiquae and three new maps ( tabulae modernae ) covering northern Europe, Spain and France.
While Ringmann was writing the Introduction, Waldseemüller focused on the creation of a world map using an aggregation of sources, including maps based on the works of Ptolemy, Henricus Martellus, Alberto Cantino, and Nicolò de Caverio. In addition to a large 12-panel wall map, Waldseemüller created a smaller, simplified globe.
World map by Gerard van Schagen, Amsterdam, 1689. A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, ... Henricus Martellus Germanus;
The German cartographer Henricus Martellus made his famous mappamundi (World Map), soon after the Portuguese navigator, Bartolomeu Dias, sailed round the southern tip of Africa. The map is based on a Portuguese prototype (which has not survived), but the coast of southern Africa is greatly extended and dislocated.