1400s World Map

1400s World Map. Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period

The flat display cases on the ground floor of the historic Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library enable us to show twelve large maps alongside one another to allow the viewer to make comparisons between maps made at various periods and times in the crucial years surrounding the discovery, from the European perspective, of the new world. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period

The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm Free shipping on many items | Browse your favorite brands | affordable prices. Map of A facsimile of a world map from the fifteenth century, showing a conventional map of the older period, which is given in Santarem's Atlas as a "Mappemonde qui se trouve au revers d'une Médaille du Commencement du XVe Siècle."

. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period 1400 AD Kingdom of Maracca was Founded-The Kingdom of Malacca was founded on the Malay peninsular in the current day Indonesia

. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days