Image: Cantino planisphere (1502)
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Description: The Cantino planisphere, completed by an unknown Portuguese cartographer in 1502, is one of the most precious cartographic documents of all times. It depicts the world, as it became known to the Europeans after the great exploration voyages at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century to the Americas, Africa and India. It is now kept in the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense, Modena, Italy
Title: Cantino planisphere (1502)
Credit: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, Italy
Author: anonymous Portuguese (1502)
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