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2. South-up map orientation - Wikipedia

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   A south-up map of the world centered on the western Pacific Ocean and splitting the Atlantic Ocean The Blue Marble photograph in its original orientation. South-up map orientation is the orientation of a map with south up, at the top of the map, amounting to a 180-degree rotation of the map from the standard convention of north-up.

3. Ptolemy's world map - Wikipedia

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   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 .

4. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/World Map

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   This is a very nice image, but more context would make it far more encyclopedic. For example, look at Image:Carta Marina.jpeg-- we even have an article about this specific map. What is so special about this world map in particular? Enquiring minds want to know! howcheng 05:57, 26 February 2007 (UTC) Support: Wow. This is a fascinating picture.

5. File:Hecataeus world map-en.svg - Wikipedia

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   File:Hecataeus world map-en.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 616 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 247 × 240 pixels | 493 × 480 pixels | 789 × 768 pixels | 1,052 × 1,024 pixels | 2,104 × 2,048 pixels | 825 × 803 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

6. Waldseemüller map - Wikipedia

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   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". The name America is placed on South America on the main map.

7. Henricus Martellus Germanus - Wikipedia

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   Henricus Martellus Germanus ( fl. 1480-1496) was a German cartographer active in Florence between 1480 and 1496. His surviving cartographic work includes manuscripts of Ptolemy's Geographia, manuscripts of Insularium illustratum (a descriptive atlas of island maps), and two world maps which were the first to show a passage around the southern ...