The Contarini–Rosselli map of 1506 was the first printed world map showing the New World. The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini...
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of Naxos Giovanni Matteo Contarini (d. 1507), cartographer who designed the 1506 Contarini–Rosselli map Zaccaria Contarini, Ambassador to King Charles...
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Contarini created a world map that Francesco Rosselli later engraved. The Contarini-Rosselli map is the first world map to have Columbus' discoveries incorporated...
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"Punta d'Asia"—"edge of Asia". Some maps, e.g., the 1506 Contarini–Rosselli map and the 1508 Johannes Ruysch map, bowing to Ptolemaic authority and Columbus's...
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Johannes Ruysch (section The Ruysch Map of 1507)
to produce world maps were published. The Contarini-Rosselli map of 1506 (now in the British Library) and Martin Waldseemüller's map of the world and...
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from Florence, Italy Contarini-Rosselli map, first printed world map showing the New World Rosselli-Gulienetti syndrome Zoila rosselli, species of sea snail...
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The Ruysch map was published and widely distributed in 1507. It uses Ptolemy's coniform projection, as does the Contarini-Rosselli 1506 map. Both document...
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first known shop to market maps commercially. His two most famous maps date from 1506 and 1508. The 1506 Contarini-Rosselli map, his only signed and dated...
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– Herman Krefting, Norwegian businessman (b. 1592) March 11 – Alvise Contarini, Italian diplomat, nobleman (b. 1597) April 1 – John of Hesse-Braubach...
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abridgment of De magistratibus et republica Venetorum (1543) by Gasparo Contarini . Arabia, seu, Arabum vicinarumq[ue] gentium Orientalium leges, ritus...
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