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The Fra Mauro map of 1459 shows a more detailed picture of Africa as a continent, including the Cape of Diab at its southernmost point, reflecting an expedition of 1420. Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia (1545) labels the Cape of Good Hope , reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, as caput bonae spei .
Africae Tabula Nova ("New Map of Africa") is a map of Africa published by Abraham Ortelius in 1570. It was engraved by Frans Hogenberg and included in Ortelius's 1570 atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ("Theater of the World"), commonly regarded as the first modern atlas. The atlas was printed widely in seven languages and 31 total editions between ...
For the map of Europe, wall map (1554). of the Mercator map of Scandinavia (1539) by Olaus Magnus, map of Asia was derived from his own Asia-map from 1567, which in turn was inspired by that of Gastaldi (1559). [clarification needed] Also for the Africa map he referred to Gastaldi.
Johannes Leo Africanus (born al-Hasan Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: الحسن محمد الوزان الفاسي; c. 1494 – c. 1554) was an Andalusi diplomat and author who is best known for his 1526 book Cosmographia et geographia de Affrica, later published by Giovanni Battista Ramusio as Descrittione dell'Africa (Description of Africa) in 1550, centered on the geography of the ...
Portrait of Sebastian Münster by Christoph Amberger, c. 1552. Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552) [1] was a German cartographer and cosmographer.He also was a Christian Hebraist scholar who taught as a professor at the University of Basel.
The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography , written c. 150 . Based on an inscription in several of the earliest surviving manuscripts, it is traditionally credited to Agathodaemon of Alexandria .
1554 in Africa (1 C, 2 P) 1554 in Asia (6 C, 2 P) E. 1554 in Europe (16 C, 2 P) S. 1554 in South America (2 C) This page was last edited on 11 January 2022, at ...
Pages in category "1554 in Africa" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Battle of Tadla; C.