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Manuscript copy of sheet 6 of Waldseemüller’s Carta marina Names Waldseemüller, Martin, 1470-1519, cartographer Schöner, Johann, 1477-1547
Americae sive qvartae orbis partis nova et exactissima descriptio English title: America, or the fourth part of the world, newly and most accurately described. Names Gutiérrez, Diego, active 1554-1569. ...
Americae et proximar regionvm orae descriptio. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Second state. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Proof sheets for celestial globes, created by the German cartographer Johann Schöner, a prominent astronomer and mathematician. These buttons are considered the oldest known celestial buttons. They were found ...
A New, More True and Complete Description of the Whole World, First Published by Alonzo de Santa Cruz, Principal Cosmographer to Emperor Charles V, 1542. Other Title Nova verior ...
This map from Culhuacán in the present-day Delegación de Ixtapalapa, Mexico City, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas ...
Noua, et integra uniuersi orbis descriptio (A new and complete description of the whole world).
The first circumnavigation of the globe was the voyage of 1519–22 by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), undertaken in the service of Spain. The only known first-hand account ...
The Island and City of Metropolitan Goa of India Portuguese title: A ilha e cidade de Goa metropolitana da India Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563-1611) was a Dutch traveler ...
This map from Ixcatlán, Santa María, in the present-day state of Oaxaca, Mexico, is from the Relaciones Geográficas collection in the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of ...
Journey and Life of the Patriarch Abraham This map tracing the life of the patriarch Abraham was published in Antwerp in 1590 by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), the Flemish publisher ...
Names Hans and Hanni Kraus Sir Francis Drake Collection (Library of Congress)
Atlas of the Azores and Madeira Islands. This 16th-century pen-and-ink watercolor map, from an atlas of Madeira and the Azores, shows the island of Madeira. This island was discovered ...
Map of the Sea The Carta marina of the Swedish geographer and historian Olaus Magnus is one of the earliest accurate cartographic depictions of the Scandinavian peninsula. Drafted in ...
A Modern and Complete Map of the World by the Royal Mathematician Oronce Fine of the Dauphiné. An astronomer and mathematician, from 1531 the first chair of mathematics in ...
Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Recto, North Atlantic Ocean. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. ...
Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 6 Verso, The Mediterranean Sea. The map presented here is from the Miller Atlas in the collections of the National Library of France. ...
This nautical map of the world was produced by the Genoese cartographer Nicolo di Caverio based on Portuguese documents. The map can be dated to 1506, as it contains ...
Universale della nuovamente parte del mondo ritrovata.
Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh, Equestris ordinis Viri, Anno Dn̄i. MDLXXXV regni Vero Sereniss. nostræ Reginæ Elisabethæ XXVII, hujus vero ...
The first maritime charts were produced at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Their main purpose was to represent with the greatest possible accuracy coastlines and ports, ...
Sixth Map of Asia, including Arabia Felix, Carmania, and the Persian Gulf This map from Ptolemy’s Geographia was published in 1578 and reprinted on many occasions between 1584 and ...
Claudius Ptolemaeus (circa 100–circa 170), known as Ptolemy, was an astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of Greek descent who lived and worked in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. In his ...
This topographical map of Mexico City and its surroundings dates from around 1550, some three decades after the conquest of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán by Hernán Cortés in ...
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