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The Planisphere of Domingos Teixeira is a hand-painted parchment map of the world made by a Portuguese cartographer in 1573, during the reign of Sebastian of Portugal. It is conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. [1]
"Terra Brasilis" by Pedro Reinel and Lopo Homem, Miller Atlas, in the French National Library in Paris Map of the Atlas Miller showing the Indian Ocean. The Miller Atlas, also known as Lopo Homem-Reineis Atlas, is a richly illustrated Portuguese partial world atlas dated from 1519, including a dozen charts.
The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. It measures 220 x 105 cm. [1]
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The Padrão Real ([pɐˈðɾɐ̃w ʁiˈal]) or "Royal Register" was the official and quasisecret Portuguese master map during the Age of Exploration, used as a template for the maps of all official Portuguese expeditions. It formed the complete record of Portuguese discoveries both public and secret.
The full map catalogue is known as the National Topographic System (NTS). [16] A government proposal to discontinue publishing of all hardcopy or paper topographic maps in favor of digital-only mapping data was shelved in 2005 after intense public opposition. [17]
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy's Geography and using his second map projection. The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation.
A map issued by the Fundação Mata do Buçaco lists 86 "remarkable trees" in the forest, one of which is a Tasmanian mountain ash growing near the hotel. [28] English wine writer Hugh Johnson commented on the tree in his book Hugh Johnson in the Garden , opining that it is "surely Europe's most magnificent". [ 29 ]