CARTOGRAPHY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR HISTORY SINCE MORE THAN 8000 YEARS. FROM CAVE PAINTINGS TO ANCIENT MAPS OF THE OLD WORLD, THROUGH THE AGE OF EXPLORATION, AND ON INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, PEOPLE HAVE MADE AND USED MAPS. HERE YOU CAN SEE A COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE WORLD MAPS DESCRIBING THE KNOWN WORLD IN THEIR TIME AND AT THEIR STATE OF KNOWLEDGE.
Friday, February 17, 2012
World Map 14th Century
Description: The Catalan Atlas produced in 1375 by the Majorcan cartographers Abraham and Jehuda Cresques is the most important Catalan world map of the Middle Ages. The world map originally consisted of various leaves.
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