Sunday, February 1, 2015

Old World Maps

World maps through history.

Al-Idrisi’s world map in an 1154 atlas with Arabia on top:




Pietro Vesconte's world map, oriented to the east at the top, 14th century:



A map based on Ptolemy's Geographia, 1482:




Johann Ruysch's map, 1507:




Clavdii Ptolemaei Geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannes de Regio Monte in errores commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua, 1525:



Ortelius’s map of the world, 1564:


Map by Paolo Forlani based on the work of Italian cartographer, Giacomo Gastaldi, 1565:




The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, 1628:



Nicolaas Visscher, 1670:



Cedid Atlas, 1803:



A new map of the world on the globular projection, 1857:


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  1. Don BaroneMay 23, 2021 at 5:28 AM

    Hi I am looking at older maps and apparently I am seeing things that no one else seems to see. In this map:
    Al-Idrisi’s world map in an 1154 atlas with Arabia on top

    What is east ? almsot all maps from the ancient world and medieval times need to be both vertically and horizontally flipped to assume the proper perspective. On the most famous one The Mappa Mundi The Red Sea it is labeled as a tiny river as the Red sea and ignores what is obviously the real red sea. Can you help me see what is going on with these maps ?

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