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1 : 160000000 Description This is a 1561 first plate issue of Girolamo Ruscelli s double hemisphere map of the world. It is the earliest acquirable world map in this format, and is the first such to appear in a printed atlas. Like most maps in Ruscelli’s Ptolemy, the geographic details were based on Giacomo Gastaldi s (1500 - 1566) 1548 Ptolemy. Here, the double-hemispherical projection transforms this map into fully new composition. Amongst printed maps, it is predated only by the unacquirable 1555 Georgio Sideri Calapoda (fl. 1537–1565) map. The MapThe map is oriented to the north, with the three parts of the old world in the right hemisphere and the fourth part of the world - the Americas - dominating the left hemisphere. Some geographical elements appear to be derived from Gastaldi s 1546 and 1548 world maps - but unlike Ruscelli s ....
1 : 21000000 This is Girolamo Ruscelli s 1574 map Tierra Nveva, an early and influential map of what would become New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Although the cartography can be confusing by modern standards, the map covers the eastern coastline of North America from somewhere in upper Florida northwards past Cabo de Santa Maria to Larcadia (Kitty Hawk), Angoulesme (New York Harbor), Nova Scotia, and Labrador. Based on the Ptolemaic model, Ruscelli s work follows on the 1548 map of the same region by fellow Venetian Giacomo Gastaldi. Reconciling the ToponomyCartographically this map offers a fascinating look at early cartographer s attempts to reconcile the discoveries of Giovanni Verrazano with those of Jacques Cartier. Although there is some scholarly disagreement regarding the modern equivalent of the coastal toponymy, the general consensus is as follows, from south to north. Larcadia, named by Verrazano because of its forested beauty, i ....