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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 ...
Nicolaus Germanus (c. 1420 – c. 1490) [2] was a German cartographer who modernized Ptolemy's Geography by applying new projections, adding additional maps, and contributing other innovations that were influential in the development of Renaissance cartography.
World map by Gerard van Schagen, Amsterdam, 1689. A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, ... Henricus Martellus Germanus;
Antillia (and all its companions) are conspicuously omitted in the map of Gabriel de Vallseca (1439), the Genoese map (1457), the Fra Mauro map (1459) and the maps of Henricus Martellus Germanus (1484, 1489) and Pedro Reinel (c. 1485).
He made an extensive research on maps to show that America was known long before the Age of Discovery, inspired by previous works by Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso and Enrique de Gandía. He was the first to identify all the principal fluvial system of South America in the Henricus Martellus Germanus map of 1489, using a distortion grid.
Guided by Ptolemy, the discoverers of the New World were initially trying to find their way to Cattigara. On the 1489 map of the world made by Henricus Martellus Germanus, revising Ptolemy's work, Asia terminated in its southeastern point in a cape, the Cape of Cattigara.