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1300s Map Of The World

Medieval world map British Library. VeebThis map is one of the most important surviving examples of 13th-century map-making. It tells us much about the way English men and women viewed the world at this time..

Medieval world map British Library
Medieval world map British Library from orig12.deviantart.net

The Juan de la Cosa, a Spanish cartographer, explorer and conquistador, born in Santoña in the northern autonomous region of Cantabria, made several maps of which the only survivor is the Mappa Mundi of 1500. It is the first known European cartographic representation of the Americas. It is now in the Museo Naval in Madrid. Reproductions of it are given by Humboldt in his Atlas géogra…

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