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Español: Simulación generada por computadora de la temperatura de la superficie terrestre durante el Cretácico medio (hace unos 100 millones de años). El modelo predice que la temperatura global promedio era unos 4,8 ºC más alta que ahora. Dibujado a partir de Willis y McElwain 2002, a su vez redibujado de Barron y Washington 1984
Mappa Mundi in La Fleur des Histoires, 1459-1463, showing at top Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat. To modern eyes, mappae mundi can look superficially primitive and inaccurate. However, mappae mundi were never meant to be used as navigational charts and they make no pretence of showing the relative areas of land and water.
De Natura Rerum, Chapter XLVIII, 2 (translation): . So the earth may be divided into three sides (trifarie), of which one part is Europe, another Asia, and the third is called Africa.
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1784 sketch of the triptych containing the Hereford Mappa Mundi, showing side panels. The map has been interpreted from a topographical and encyclopedic perspective, but more recent approaches have attempted to see the map as a work of art, that conveys meanings through symbolism and associations. [2]
Born as Diogo Ribeiro, he was the son of Afonso Ribeiro and Beatriz d’Oliveira. [3] However, there is no known record of the date and place of his birth.
Juan de la Cosa's map is a manuscript nautical chart of the world drawn on two joined sheets of parchment sewn onto a canvas backing. It measures 96 cm high by 183 cm wide. A legend written in Spanish at the western edge of the map translates as "Juan de la Cosa made this (map) in the port of Santa Maria in the year 1500". [1]
The rhumb-line construction scheme and geographic lines in the Cantino planisphere. Adapted from Gaspar (2012), Plate 3. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant example of the so-called latitude chart, which was developed following the introduction of astronomical navigation, during the second half of the fifteenth century.