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The Piri Reis map is a famous world map created by 16th-century Ottoman Turkish admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. The surviving third of the map shows part of the western coasts of Europe and North Africa with reasonable accuracy, and the coast of Brazil is also easily recognizable.
In 1402, Yi Hoe and Kwan Yun created a world map largely based from Chinese cartographers called the Gangnido map. It is currently one of the oldest surviving world maps from East Asia. [64] Another notable pre-modern map is the Cheonhado map developed in Korea in the 17th century. [65]
Mercator's 1569 map was a large planisphere, [3] i.e. a projection of the spherical Earth onto the plane. It was printed in eighteen separate sheets from copper plates engraved by Mercator himself. [4] Each sheet measures 33×40 cm and, with a border of 2 cm, the complete map measures 202×124 cm. All sheets span a longitude of 60 degrees; the ...
Map of the world from 1897. The British Empire (marked in pink) was the superpower of the 19th century. ... 19th Century Europe: A Cultural History (2008).
Modern rendering of Anaximander's 6th century BC world map Ptolemy's 150 CE world map (as redrawn in the 15th century) Anaximander, Greek Anatolia (610 BC–546 BC), first to attempt making a map of the known world; Hecataeus of Miletus, Greek Anatolia (550 BC–476 BC), geographer, cartographer, and early ethnographer
0–9. 1840–41 Royal Engineers maps of Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. 1858 van de Velde maps of Palestine and Jerusalem.
A 15th-century depiction of the Ptolemy world map, reconstituted from Ptolemy's Geographia (c. 150) While the works of almost all earlier geographers have been lost, many of them are partially known through quotations found in Strabo (64/63 BC – ca. AD 24).
19th century. Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895) Atlas do Visconde de Santarem (Paris, 1841, 1842-1844, and 1849) Bosatlas (Netherlands 1877–present) Cedid Atlas (Istanbul, 1803)o; Rand McNally Atlas (United States, 1881–present) Stielers Handatlas (Germany, 1817–1944) 20th ...