15Th Century World Map – Vasco da gama was a portuguese explorer and the first european to reach india by sea. Detail from fra mauro's map, a work of unprecedented thoroughness and accuracy. A babylonian world map, known as the imago mundi, is commonly dated to the 6th century bce. The same map very possibly influenced christopher columbus’ ideas about global geography.
15Th Century World Map
Team of experts takes multispectral images of the 1491 martellus world map. Text is available under the.
15Th Century World Map Chapter 1
- Historical world map from johannes de armsshein, published in 1482 in ulm/germany at the base of ptolemy's view of the world.
- Da gama was a portuguese explorer and the first european to reach india by sea.
- Henricus martellus expanded on ptolemaic maps, and also relied on sources like marco polo’s travels to imagine the old world.
- It was a text with maps that was translated into latin by jacobus angelus in about 1406 and first introduced ptolemy's geography into western europe.
- With the dawn of the age of exploration in the 15th century, though, our concept of the world started to open up once more.