MAKE A MEME View Large Image CantinoPlanisphere-Mascareignes.png en The most important manuscript map surviving from the early Age of Discovery the Cantino World Map is named for Alberto Cantino an Italian diplomatic agent in Lisbon who obtained it in 1502 for the Duke ...
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Keywords: CantinoPlanisphere-Mascareignes.png en The most important manuscript map surviving from the early Age of Discovery the Cantino World Map is named for Alberto Cantino an Italian diplomatic agent in Lisbon who obtained it in 1502 for the Duke of Ferrara It incorporates extensive new geographical information based on four series of voyages Columbus to the Caribbean Pedro Álvarez Cabral to Brazil Vasco de Gama followed by Cabral to eastern Africa and India and the brothers Corte-Real to Greenland and Newfoundland Except for Columbus all had sailed under the Portuguese flag This extract shows Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands http //commons wikimedia org/wiki/File CantinoPlanisphere png Anonymous 1502 Work is long out of copyright and in public domain PD-old-100 Cantino map Old maps of Madagascar Mascarene Islands
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