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    The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is a manuscript Portuguese world map preserved at the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, Italy. It is named after...
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    Quaresma, looking very much like Fernando de Noronha island, appears in the Cantino planisphere. The Cantino map was composed by an anonymous Portuguese...
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  • given by Humboldt in his Atlas géographique et physique. The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is the earliest surviving map showing Portuguese discoveries...
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    at 47°37′ W. The earliest surviving Portuguese opinion is on the Cantino planisphere of 1501 or 1502, generally considered to represent the Portuguese...
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    Caverio map (category Bibliothèque nationale de France collections)
    Mcintosh, Gregory C. (2022-05-04). "The Caverio Planisphere (c. 1506) Was Not Copied from the Cantino Planisphere (1502)". Terrae Incognitae. 54 (2): 110–161...
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    the point of arrival of Cabral's fleet. However, according to the Cantino planisphere (1502), made the year following the exploratory expedition that rescued...
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    Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa (c. 1453 – 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, and statesman. He served as viceroy of Portuguese...
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    areas, but the rhumb lines on small-scale maps such as the Teixeira planisphere were highly inaccurate. The grid can be easily spotted (as parchment...
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    reign of King Charles V, and is still preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Catalan Atlas originally consisted of six vellum leaves (each...
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  • onwards in Europeans sources. Early 16th century European maps such as Cantino planisphere, showing the knowledge of Malay Peninsula before the actual arrival...
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    some time between 1500 and 1510.: 107  Furthermore, the Portuguese Cantino planisphere of 1502 and several other European maps dating from the first decade...
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  • Thumbnail for Ptolemy's world map
    (1154) Catalan Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary...
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    discovered lands. Even prior to Vespucci, several maps, e.g. the Cantino planisphere of 1502 and the Canerio map of 1504, placed a large open ocean between...
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    collection of the Naval Museum in Madrid. Ancient world maps World map Cantino planisphere Davies 1976 Alves Gaspar 2017 Davies 1976 Alves Gaspar 2017 Alves...
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    author was not inferior to his erudition. The celestial and terrestrial planisphere of silver which he constructed for his royal patron was nearly six feet...
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    (1154) Catalan Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary...
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    to appear. A Spanish version of the letter (presumably addressed to Luis de Santángel), was printed in Barcelona by early April 1493, and a Latin translation...
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  • Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s)...
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    the 16th century. The first hint of the new name is found in the Cantino planisphere (1502), which draws extensively on the 1501 mapping expedition. The...
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  • a new world. Another form of this peninsula appeared in the 1502 Cantino planisphere smuggled out of Portugal for the Duke of Ferrara. The map has lost...
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    (1154) Catalan Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary...
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    remain of Peter the Cruel's palace. Blanche de Bourbon was held here after her abandonment by Peter for María de Padilla in 1353. The former portal, blocked...
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    Nicolau Coelho, Sancho de Tovar, Simão de Miranda, Aires Gomes da Silva, Vasco de Ataíde, Diogo Dias, Simão de Pina, Luís Pires, Pêro de Ataíde and Nuno Leitão...
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    João Fernandes Labrador in 1499 or 1500. Seen as claimed in the Cantino planisphere of 1502, Reinel-Lopo Homem chart of 1519 and Reinel map of 1535....
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    map called the Cantino planisphere which was smuggled out of Portugal, for the Duke of Ferrara, by the Italian 'spy' Alberto Cantino. On this purloined...
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  • These charts were rapidly reproduced, and appeared in say the 1502 Cantino planisphere. Maps from the 1590 Ain-e-Akbari, a Mughal document detailing India's...
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    similar to surviving maps like the 1502 Cantino Planisphere. Compared to the planisphere and the map of Juan de la Cosa (1500), the Atlantic Ocean is accurate...
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    the first early world maps. The Cantino planisphere is the only existing copy of the Padrão Real. The Teixeira planisphere was made by Domingos Teixeira...
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  • (1154) Catalan Atlas (1375) Early Modern age Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster) (1544) Contemporary...
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  • Africa and Eurasia. 1502: Unknown Portuguese cartographer made the Cantino planisphere, the first nautical chart to implicitly represent latitudes. 1504:...
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