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E226 - Various Europena - i12907-12908-12909-12910-12911-12912
World map by Pierre Desceliers. Source: Wikipedia
Chet van Duzer
The World for a King on Amazon.com
Chet Van Duzer is an American historian of cartography, specializing in medieval and Renaissance maps. He was born in 1966 and grew up in Northern California, and graduated from UC Berkeley. He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester. Van Duzer has published extensively in the field of cartography, including his recent book "Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence". Source: perplexity.ai
Carta Marina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands;[1] commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus in 1539.
[ 2024-07-30 23:36:20 ]
Carta Marina LOC
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03037/?r=0.028,-0.402,1,1.478,0
[ 2024-07-30 23:39:38 ]
1933 Keizo Shimada Japanese Manga Pictorial Map of the World
https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/worldpictorial-keizo-1933-5
[ 2025-05-14 18:04:56 ]
Japanese World Map with Stereotypes - 1932
Ulm Ptolemy - 1482
Wikipedia | raremaps.com | perplexity
One of my favorite maps of all time, the story of this map is the story of Western civilization, which owes a debt to Islam. Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD, knew and wrote about Europe, Africa and Asia, in a book called Geographia, which included the first system of longitude and latitude, as well as about 8,000 lat-long coordinates for cities. When the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, Ptolemy’s book made its way to Bagdad and, during the Islamic Golden Age, from roughly 750 to 1250, this book was translated from Latin into Arabic. With the fall of Bagdad and the awakening of the Renaissance, this book made its way to Europe and, in 1482, Ptolemy’s book and this map were created and published in Ulm.
Write a 200-word summary of the map titled the Ulm Ptoley world map of 1482.
The Ulm Ptolemy world map of 1482 is a landmark in cartographic history, notable for being the first printed world map produced north of the Alps and the first to appear in color, with the seas rendered in a vibrant blue. Published by Lienhart Holle in Ulm, this map was based on the manuscript work of Donnus Nicolaus Germanus and engraved by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, whose signature appears on the map—the earliest known example of a signed world map engraving16.
The map follows the Ptolemaic tradition but incorporates some contemporary updates, such as detailed depictions of Scandinavia and Greenland, reflecting the latest geographical knowledge of the time456. However, it omits Portuguese discoveries along the African coast and retains a closed Indian Ocean, linking Asia and Africa with a speculative southern continent12. Surrounding the map are twelve wind heads, each named, adding decorative and symbolic elements16.
Printed from woodblocks rather than copperplates, the map is visually distinctive, with bold, sturdy lines and rich coloring. The Ulm edition also introduced four new regional maps to the atlas, marking a significant evolution from earlier Italian editions. The 1482 Ulm Ptolemy remains highly prized for its artistic quality and historical significance456.
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/14277/untitled-map-of-the-world-1482-ulm-ptolemy-world-map-ptolemy-holle
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/8154/untitled-map-of-the-world-1486-ulm-ptolemy-world-map-ptolemy-holle
- https://www.raremaps.com/essay/5/the-ulm-ptolemy-of-1482-and-1486
- https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/ptolemy-s-world/tour-of-maps/1482---ulm
- https://apps.lib.umn.edu/bell/map/PTO/TOUR/1482u.html
- https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5780582
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/23096/
- https://demo.mediainfo.com/item/230
- https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/ptolemy-world-map-1482-0
- https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/egypt-ptolemy-14
How did Geography by Ptolemy from classical times until the renaissance?
Ptolemy’s Geography (or Geographia) was a transformative work that shaped the understanding and representation of the world from classical antiquity through the Renaissance. Written around 150 AD, it introduced a systematic approach to mapping the world, using mathematical principles and a coordinate system of latitude and longitude based on a prime meridian at the "Fortunate Isles" (Canary Islands)15. Ptolemy’s work synthesized earlier geographic knowledge, notably refining the methods of Marinus of Tyre, and included detailed instructions for mapmaking, a gazetteer with coordinates for thousands of locations, and regional as well as world maps15.
After flourishing in the Roman and Byzantine worlds, Geography faded in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages, as religiously symbolic maps (like T-O maps) dominated5. However, the text was preserved and expanded upon by Islamic scholars, who translated and commented on it, keeping its scientific legacy alive5. The Renaissance saw a revival: Byzantine scholars reintroduced the text to Western Europe, leading to a Latin translation in 1406 by Jacopo d’Angelo15. Printed editions with reconstructed maps appeared from 1477 onward, revolutionizing European cartography by emphasizing empirical observation and mathematical accuracy over medieval symbolism145. Ptolemy’s methods influenced explorers, mapmakers, and the broader development of geographic science well into the modern era35.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_(Ptolemy)
- https://digitalmapsoftheancientworld.com/ancient-maps/ptolemys-map/
- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo56698759.html
- https://www.folger.edu/explore/collection-highlights/ptolemy-edition-of-1513/
- https://www.mixplaces.com/ptolemys-geography
- https://www.thoughtco.com/ptolemy-biography-1435025
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy
- https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/hs-california-history/ptolemys-geography
- https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/explorations/item/5384
- https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/ptolemys-geography-in-the-renaissance/
[ 2025-06-01 18:46:28 ]
World Map - Mercator - 1569
World Map - Ribeiro - 1529
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/universal-chart/nAWRIyonfTojLw?hl=en
https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/ribeiro-planisphere-1529-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_1569_world_map#/media/File:Propaganda_Map.jpg
[ 2026-01-02 05:14:38 ]
King/Hamy World Map - 1520
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/48627/
https://www.huntington.org/verso/maps-scholars-and-goonies-treasure
[ 2026-01-02 05:25:58 ]
Catalan Estense World Map - 1450
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233258171/view
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Catalan-Estense_World_Map
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-catalan-estense-wo-azWICluzSzOPd1DDVxOHCw#0
The Catalan-Estense world map is a mid‑15th‑century mappamundi, preserved in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, that consciously reworks and extends the model of the Catalan Atlas of 1375. It is often treated by historians of cartography as a later derivative or “update” of the Catalan Atlas tradition rather than as an entirely independent conception.
What the Catalan-Estense map is
- The Catalan-Estense world map is a large manuscript world map, usually dated to around 1450–1460 and associated with the Majorcan cartographic school.myoldmaps
- It combines a portolan-style treatment of coasts and navigation lines with a mappamundi-like encyclopedic depiction of peoples, rulers, cities, and regions across Eurasia and Africa, continuing the hybrid style pioneered on Majorcan charts.ica-proc.copernicus+1
Relationship to the Catalan Atlas
- In hydrography and orography (coastlines, river networks, and major mountain ranges) across Eurasia, the Catalan-Estense map closely follows the forms and patterns of the Catalan Atlas, especially in north‑western Europe and the Mediterranean, indicating direct dependence on Cresques’ work or closely related models.myoldmaps
- The general world layout—from the Atlantic and Mediterranean through the Middle East to inner Asia—reflects the same synthesis of portolan geography with information from travel literature (e.g., Marco Polo) that characterizes the Catalan Atlas, suggesting that the Estense map belongs to the same textual and cartographic tradition.facsimiles+2
Ways the Estense map adapts and updates the Atlas
- While echoing the Catalan Atlas’ structure, the Catalan-Estense incorporates 15th‑century additions and revisions, for example in its portrayal of parts of Asia and in some toponyms, showing how Cresques’ model was adapted to newer geographical knowledge.myoldmaps
- The Estense map also participates in the same ideological and representational program—using banners, enthroned rulers, and richly painted city icons—but adjusts the political and commercial emphases to a later context, much as the Catalan Atlas had encoded the concerns of the Crown of Aragon in the 1370s.ballandalus.wordpress+1
How historians characterize the relationship
- Modern scholarship generally treats the Catalan-Estense as one of the most important witnesses to the later reception of the Catalan Atlas: it preserves key Cresques‑type conventions while documenting their transformation in the decades just before the great age of oceanic exploration.ica-proc.copernicus+1
- Taken together, the Catalan Atlas and the Catalan-Estense world map illustrate the continuity of the Majorcan school’s cartographic language from the late 14th to the mid‑15th century, and show how a single influential atlas could generate a family of related world maps over time.historyofinformation+2
- https://pitt.libguides.com/silkroads/catalanatlas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Atlas
- https://smarthistory.org/catalan-atlas/
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ap-african-american-studies/unit-1/west-africa/catalan-atlas-1375
- https://ballandalus.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/cartography-maritime-expansion-and-imperial-reality-the-catalan-atlas-of-1375-and-the-aragonese-catalan-thalassocracy-in-the-fourteenth-century/
- https://www.facsimiles.com/facsimiles/catalan-atlas
- https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3420
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r999Tkf0oto
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIcsSMQp7Q
- https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/looking-beyond-globalization-in-the-catalan-atlas-of-the-fourteenth-century/
- https://www.carleton.edu/library-exhibitions/facsimilies/catalan-atlas/
- https://ica-proc.copernicus.org/articles/1/69/2018/ica-proc-1-69-2018.pdf
- https://www.cresquesproject.net/catalan-atlas-legends
- https://www.myoldmaps.com/late-medieval-maps-1300/245-andreas-walsperger/246-catalan-estense.pdf
- https://femturisme.cat/en/news/650-years-of-the-catalan-atlas
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/640476949304851/posts/6845718985447252/
- https://scalar.usc.edu/works/a-nostalgic-filter/catalan-atlas
[ 2026-01-02 05:40:14 ]
Vallard Atlas - 1547
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/53387
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallard_Atlas
[ 2026-01-02 05:52:30 ]
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World map by Pierre Desceliers. Source: Wikipedia
Chet van Duzer
The World for a King on Amazon.com
Chet Van Duzer is an American historian of cartography, specializing in medieval and Renaissance maps. He was born in 1966 and grew up in Northern California, and graduated from UC Berkeley. He is a member of the board of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester. Van Duzer has published extensively in the field of cartography, including his recent book "Henricus Martellus's World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence". Source: perplexity.ai
Carta Marina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina
Carta marina et descriptio septentrionalium terrarum (Latin for Marine map and description of the Northern lands;[1] commonly abbreviated Carta marina) is the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names, created by Swedish ecclesiastic Olaus Magnus in 1539.
[ 2024-07-30 23:36:20 ]
Carta Marina LOC
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03037/?r=0.028,-0.402,1,1.478,0
[ 2024-07-30 23:39:38 ]
1933 Keizo Shimada Japanese Manga Pictorial Map of the World
https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/worldpictorial-keizo-1933-5
[ 2025-05-14 18:04:56 ]
Japanese World Map with Stereotypes - 1932
Ulm Ptolemy - 1482
Wikipedia | raremaps.com | perplexity
One of my favorite maps of all time, the story of this map is the story of Western civilization, which owes a debt to Islam. Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD, knew and wrote about Europe, Africa and Asia, in a book called Geographia, which included the first system of longitude and latitude, as well as about 8,000 lat-long coordinates for cities. When the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, Ptolemy’s book made its way to Bagdad and, during the Islamic Golden Age, from roughly 750 to 1250, this book was translated from Latin into Arabic. With the fall of Bagdad and the awakening of the Renaissance, this book made its way to Europe and, in 1482, Ptolemy’s book and this map were created and published in Ulm.
Write a 200-word summary of the map titled the Ulm Ptoley world map of 1482.
The Ulm Ptolemy world map of 1482 is a landmark in cartographic history, notable for being the first printed world map produced north of the Alps and the first to appear in color, with the seas rendered in a vibrant blue. Published by Lienhart Holle in Ulm, this map was based on the manuscript work of Donnus Nicolaus Germanus and engraved by Johannes Schnitzer of Armsheim, whose signature appears on the map—the earliest known example of a signed world map engraving16.
The map follows the Ptolemaic tradition but incorporates some contemporary updates, such as detailed depictions of Scandinavia and Greenland, reflecting the latest geographical knowledge of the time456. However, it omits Portuguese discoveries along the African coast and retains a closed Indian Ocean, linking Asia and Africa with a speculative southern continent12. Surrounding the map are twelve wind heads, each named, adding decorative and symbolic elements16.
Printed from woodblocks rather than copperplates, the map is visually distinctive, with bold, sturdy lines and rich coloring. The Ulm edition also introduced four new regional maps to the atlas, marking a significant evolution from earlier Italian editions. The 1482 Ulm Ptolemy remains highly prized for its artistic quality and historical significance456.
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/14277/untitled-map-of-the-world-1482-ulm-ptolemy-world-map-ptolemy-holle
- https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/8154/untitled-map-of-the-world-1486-ulm-ptolemy-world-map-ptolemy-holle
- https://www.raremaps.com/essay/5/the-ulm-ptolemy-of-1482-and-1486
- https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/ptolemy-s-world/tour-of-maps/1482---ulm
- https://apps.lib.umn.edu/bell/map/PTO/TOUR/1482u.html
- https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5780582
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/23096/
- https://demo.mediainfo.com/item/230
- https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/ptolemy-world-map-1482-0
- https://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/egypt-ptolemy-14
How did Geography by Ptolemy from classical times until the renaissance?
Ptolemy’s Geography (or Geographia) was a transformative work that shaped the understanding and representation of the world from classical antiquity through the Renaissance. Written around 150 AD, it introduced a systematic approach to mapping the world, using mathematical principles and a coordinate system of latitude and longitude based on a prime meridian at the "Fortunate Isles" (Canary Islands)15. Ptolemy’s work synthesized earlier geographic knowledge, notably refining the methods of Marinus of Tyre, and included detailed instructions for mapmaking, a gazetteer with coordinates for thousands of locations, and regional as well as world maps15.
After flourishing in the Roman and Byzantine worlds, Geography faded in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages, as religiously symbolic maps (like T-O maps) dominated5. However, the text was preserved and expanded upon by Islamic scholars, who translated and commented on it, keeping its scientific legacy alive5. The Renaissance saw a revival: Byzantine scholars reintroduced the text to Western Europe, leading to a Latin translation in 1406 by Jacopo d’Angelo15. Printed editions with reconstructed maps appeared from 1477 onward, revolutionizing European cartography by emphasizing empirical observation and mathematical accuracy over medieval symbolism145. Ptolemy’s methods influenced explorers, mapmakers, and the broader development of geographic science well into the modern era35.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_(Ptolemy)
- https://digitalmapsoftheancientworld.com/ancient-maps/ptolemys-map/
- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo56698759.html
- https://www.folger.edu/explore/collection-highlights/ptolemy-edition-of-1513/
- https://www.mixplaces.com/ptolemys-geography
- https://www.thoughtco.com/ptolemy-biography-1435025
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy
- https://library.fiveable.me/key-terms/hs-california-history/ptolemys-geography
- https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/galleries/explorations/item/5384
- https://sterncenter.library.jhu.edu/early-book-collections/ptolemys-geography-in-the-renaissance/
[ 2025-06-01 18:46:28 ]
World Map - Ribeiro - 1529
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/universal-chart/nAWRIyonfTojLw?hl=en
https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/ribeiro-planisphere-1529-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_1569_world_map#/media/File:Propaganda_Map.jpg
[ 2026-01-02 05:14:38 ]
King/Hamy World Map - 1520
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/48627/
https://www.huntington.org/verso/maps-scholars-and-goonies-treasure
[ 2026-01-02 05:25:58 ]
Catalan Estense World Map - 1450
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233258171/view
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Catalan-Estense_World_Map
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-the-catalan-estense-wo-azWICluzSzOPd1DDVxOHCw#0
The Catalan-Estense world map is a mid‑15th‑century mappamundi, preserved in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, that consciously reworks and extends the model of the Catalan Atlas of 1375. It is often treated by historians of cartography as a later derivative or “update” of the Catalan Atlas tradition rather than as an entirely independent conception.
What the Catalan-Estense map is
- The Catalan-Estense world map is a large manuscript world map, usually dated to around 1450–1460 and associated with the Majorcan cartographic school.myoldmaps
- It combines a portolan-style treatment of coasts and navigation lines with a mappamundi-like encyclopedic depiction of peoples, rulers, cities, and regions across Eurasia and Africa, continuing the hybrid style pioneered on Majorcan charts.ica-proc.copernicus+1
Relationship to the Catalan Atlas
- In hydrography and orography (coastlines, river networks, and major mountain ranges) across Eurasia, the Catalan-Estense map closely follows the forms and patterns of the Catalan Atlas, especially in north‑western Europe and the Mediterranean, indicating direct dependence on Cresques’ work or closely related models.myoldmaps
- The general world layout—from the Atlantic and Mediterranean through the Middle East to inner Asia—reflects the same synthesis of portolan geography with information from travel literature (e.g., Marco Polo) that characterizes the Catalan Atlas, suggesting that the Estense map belongs to the same textual and cartographic tradition.facsimiles+2
Ways the Estense map adapts and updates the Atlas
- While echoing the Catalan Atlas’ structure, the Catalan-Estense incorporates 15th‑century additions and revisions, for example in its portrayal of parts of Asia and in some toponyms, showing how Cresques’ model was adapted to newer geographical knowledge.myoldmaps
- The Estense map also participates in the same ideological and representational program—using banners, enthroned rulers, and richly painted city icons—but adjusts the political and commercial emphases to a later context, much as the Catalan Atlas had encoded the concerns of the Crown of Aragon in the 1370s.ballandalus.wordpress+1
How historians characterize the relationship
- Modern scholarship generally treats the Catalan-Estense as one of the most important witnesses to the later reception of the Catalan Atlas: it preserves key Cresques‑type conventions while documenting their transformation in the decades just before the great age of oceanic exploration.ica-proc.copernicus+1
- Taken together, the Catalan Atlas and the Catalan-Estense world map illustrate the continuity of the Majorcan school’s cartographic language from the late 14th to the mid‑15th century, and show how a single influential atlas could generate a family of related world maps over time.historyofinformation+2
- https://pitt.libguides.com/silkroads/catalanatlas
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Atlas
- https://smarthistory.org/catalan-atlas/
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/ap-african-american-studies/unit-1/west-africa/catalan-atlas-1375
- https://ballandalus.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/cartography-maritime-expansion-and-imperial-reality-the-catalan-atlas-of-1375-and-the-aragonese-catalan-thalassocracy-in-the-fourteenth-century/
- https://www.facsimiles.com/facsimiles/catalan-atlas
- https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3420
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r999Tkf0oto
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIcsSMQp7Q
- https://www.medievalists.net/2011/05/looking-beyond-globalization-in-the-catalan-atlas-of-the-fourteenth-century/
- https://www.carleton.edu/library-exhibitions/facsimilies/catalan-atlas/
- https://ica-proc.copernicus.org/articles/1/69/2018/ica-proc-1-69-2018.pdf
- https://www.cresquesproject.net/catalan-atlas-legends
- https://www.myoldmaps.com/late-medieval-maps-1300/245-andreas-walsperger/246-catalan-estense.pdf
- https://femturisme.cat/en/news/650-years-of-the-catalan-atlas
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/640476949304851/posts/6845718985447252/
- https://scalar.usc.edu/works/a-nostalgic-filter/catalan-atlas
[ 2026-01-02 05:40:14 ]
Vallard Atlas - 1547
https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/53387
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallard_Atlas
[ 2026-01-02 05:52:30 ]
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