Map Resources

 

for Mapping a New World

 

January 15

We will be discussing the developing of mapmaking in the 15th and 16th centuries.  I have placed images on reserve in the library (list of images on reserve), and you may view almost all of these on-line, which I have listed below.
 

T/O Maps

Isadore of Seville

Byzantine/Oxford T/O map

Mappamundi

Portolan Charts

Portolan Chart of Juan de la Cosa (1500)

Portolan Maps:   Aglese Atlas

Ptolemy, Cosmographia (Ulm, 1486)

Cantino's World Map (1502)

Caveri World Map (1502-4)

Giovanni Contarini (1506)

    detail

Martin Waldessemuller (printed map--1507)

Martin Waldeseemuller

Johannas Ruysch (1507)

Francesco Rosselli (1508)

Vesconte de Maggioli Portalan Map(1511)

    Portolan Chart

Johann Schorer, Globe (1520)

Juan Vespucci (1524)

Diego Ribero (1529)

Typus Cosmographicus Universalis (1532)

Oronce Fine (1532)

Sebastian Cabot (1544)

    detail

    detail

Gerardus Mercator (1587)

Ortelius,  Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

John Speed (1627)

Willem Blaeu

        Britain (1645)

        Europe (1635)

Regional Maps:

    Civitates Orbis Terrarum (1572-1618)

    Christopher Saxton (1579)

        Lancaster
 
 

Additional Map Resources:

The History of Cartography site offers extensive links to on-line maps.

Though somewhat later than the sixteenth century, the New York Public Library has a good on-line exhibit of navigation and mapping in the seventeenth century.
 

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