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Its two center sheets, which showed Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and western Asia, came straight from Ptolemy. Farther to the east, it presented the Far East as described by Marco...
On his 1516 world map, the Carta Marina, Waldseemüller identified the land he had called Parias on his 1507 map as Terra de Cuba and said it was part of Asia (Asie partis); that is, he explicitly identified the land discovered by Columbus as the eastern part of Asia.
Jan 28, 2023 · Martin Waldseemüller was a brilliant German humanist, academic, cartographer and cosmographer. In the early sixteenth century he and a colleague published one of the most important maps in the history of cartography, the Universalis Cosmographia, dated 1507. Born near Freiburg in 1470, at some point he and his family moved to the city proper ...
Oct 30, 2017 · On the map, the Mediterranean separates Europe from Africa and the rivers Don and Nile mark the divide between Asia and its neighbors. Yet on this particular map, these bodies of water are marked...
Jun 23, 2022 · The boundary between Europe and Asia is simply a historical and cultural construct. Nowadays, the border between Europe and Asia is usually drawn to follow the Aegean Sea, the Sea of Marmara–Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, and the Ural River and Mountains.
Next, in 1585, Mercator presented the first three issues of his ‘modern geography’ containing 51 maps: 16 of France, 9 of The Netherlands and 26 of Germany, followed by 22 maps of southeastern Europe in 1589.
Oct 30, 2013 · Ulm does not figure on most visitor itineraries through Germany’s southwest, but it probably should: this medium-sized city of 120,000 residents happens to be Einstein’s birthplace, and home to the tallest church steeple in the world. I had known about it ever since my early teens, when I received a tall, elongated book on skyscrapers.
