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Antique Maps of Africa. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Antique Maps of the World. Gallery of authentic historic rare world maps from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Antique Maps of Africa. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
1 : 120000000 Description This is Sebastian Münster's 1550 map of the world, one of the most distinctive produced during the Age of Discovery. In the mid-sixteenth century, it was the best summation of the rapidly expanding known world available to the literate European. The map was included in Münster’s magnum opus, Cosmographia Universalis, for over forty years was the primary source for anyone who wished knowledge of the world. Consequently, this map would have had a disproportionate impact, providing the first presentation of a circumnavigable world for nearly half a century...
Hamarich, the capital of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king Prester John. A Visually Compelling MapOf the early maps of Africa, Münster's is the most entertaining, with its decorative elements such as parrots, an elephant, and a giant Cyclops. The grand ship shown sailing near the Cape of Good Hope does more than decorate: it reinforces the news that those waters were navigable, a reality not reflected in Ptolemy's mapping of the world until scholars began revising the 2nd century geographers' work at the end of the 15th century. By the time atlases such as Ortelius' began entering ...