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Prints of the family's works are still sold today. Original maps are rare collector items. Blaeu's 1630 map of Europe Blaeu's 1614 map of the Americas. Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), who holds a position of great honor among map historians. Several of his paintings ...
Ptolemy's world map of the 2nd century already had a reasonably precise description of southern and western Europe, but was unaware of particulars of northern and eastern Europe. Medieval maps such as the Hereford Mappa Mundi still assumed that Scandinavia was an island. Progress was made in the 16th century, and Gerard Mercator gave an ...
Map of Maximus Planudes (c. 1300), earliest extant realization of Ptolemy's world map (2nd century) Gangnido (Korea, 1402) Bianco world map (1436) Fra Mauro map (c. 1450) Map of Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s) Mercator 1569 ...
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Where to categorize or find maps of Europe made in the last 70 years. ... Bradley map 1897.png 809 × 540; 518 KB. Carta Marina.jpeg 5,016 × 3,715; 5.22 MB.
Downtown Kansas City is defined as being roughly bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the east, and State Line Road to the west. The locations of National Register properties and districts are in an online map.
Aphrica, 1600, Johann Bussemacher after Matthias Quad Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne . He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders.