OpenHistoricalMap
OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain. Learn More. Start Mapping. OpenHistoricalMap collaboratively stores and displays map data throughout the history of the world.
Largest Early World Map - Monte's 10 ft. Planisphere of 1587
2017年11月26日 · An extraordinary 60 sheet manuscript world map made in 1587 by Urbano Monte has been added to the David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University. At 10 foot square, this map or planisphere is the largest known early map of the world.
The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World | Smithsonian
The Waldseemüller Map: Charting the New World. Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the world. Toby Lester. December...
Map of Europe, 1500 AD - Brilliant Maps
2023年3月3日 · The map above shows the patchwork of kingdoms, principalities, bishoprics, duchies, republics, cities, sultanates, etc. in and around Europe in 1500 CE/AD. Some countries such as France and England are easily recognisable and largely occupy the same areas as their modern incarnations.
Map, 1500/1599 - Library of Congress
Ninety-six maps dated from 1572-1595 are interleaved within the 53 map sheets of this 1570 ed., including sheets from the "Parergon theatri" of 1579-90 and maps from the "Addimentum... Contributor: Ortelius, Abraham - Llwyd, Humphrey - Diesth, Aegid.
Early world maps - Wikipedia
With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.
What was Europe like in the 1500s? - Vivid Maps
2015年12月8日 · Looking at a map of Europe in 1500, it is effortless to suppose that the outlines of modern nation-states would take the shapes recognizable in the 21st century. But this impression is tricky: The conception of the nations as a kind of organism or ecosystem with an economy and distinguishing political and legal systems was forming.