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  2. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...

  3. Waldseemüller map - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the map showing the names "Catigara" and "Mallaqua" where "was slain St. Thomas". The Waldseemüller map or Universalis Cosmographia ("Universal Cosmography ") is a printed wall map of the world by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, originally published in April 1507. It is known as the first map to use the name "America".

  4. Hereford Mappa Mundi - Wikipedia

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    The Hereford Mappa Mundi ( Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. The map is drawn in a form deriving from the T and O pattern, dating from c. 1300. It is displayed at Hereford Cathedral in ...

  5. Old World - Wikipedia

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    Old World. This T and O map, from the first printed version of Isidore 's Etymologiae ( Augsburg, 1472), identifies the three known continents ( Asia, Europe and Africa) as respectively populated by descendants of Sem ( Shem ), Iafeth ( Japheth) and Cham ( Ham ). The " Old World " ( Latin: Mundus Vetus) is a term for Afro-Eurasia that ...

  6. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description. The tablet describes the oldest known ...

  7. Fra Mauro map - Wikipedia

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    The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian ( Venetian) cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography ." [1] It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame that measures over two by two meters.

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