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  2. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable.

  3. Gerardus Mercator - Wikipedia

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    Gerardus Mercator (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d ə s m ɜːr ˈ k eɪ t ər /; [a] [b] [c] 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) [d] was a Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer.He is most renowned for creating the 1569 world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing (rhumb lines) as straight lines—an innovation that is still employed in nautical charts.

  4. World map - Wikipedia

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    Early world maps cover depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern period.Old maps provide information about places that were known in past times, as well as the philosophical and cultural basis of the map, which were often much different from modern cartography.

  5. History of cartography - Wikipedia

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    In 1402, Yi Hoe and Kwan Yun created a world map largely based from Chinese cartographers called the Gangnido map. It is currently one of the oldest surviving world maps from East Asia. [64] Another notable pre-modern map is the Cheonhado map developed in Korea in the 17th century. [65]

  6. Fra Mauro - Wikipedia

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    The map covers over five square meters. The map is extremely detailed and contains many thousands of texts and illustrations. The world map took several years to complete and was the most detailed and accurate world map that had been produced up until that time. Fra Mauro created the map under a commission by King Afonso V of Portugal.

  7. Mercator 1569 world map - Wikipedia

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    The Mercator world map of 1569 is titled Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum ... in the centre of which the human race was created and whence it spread, by ...

  8. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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    In 1569, Mercator announced a new projection by publishing a large world map measuring 202 by 124 cm (80 by 49 in) and printed in eighteen separate sheets. Mercator titled the map Nova et Aucta Orbis Terrae Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium Emendata: "A new and augmented description of Earth corrected for the use of sailors". This title, along ...

  9. List of cartographers - Wikipedia

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    First world map of Piri Reis Martin Behaim's 1492 world map. Jacobus ... Shanawdithit (Canada, c. 1801–1829), created maps depicting the movement Beothuk people in ...