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Cantino World Map, 1502

The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is the earliest surviving map showing Portuguese geographic discoveries in the east and west. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. The map is notable for portraying a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast, and for depicting the African coast of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with a remarkable accuracy and detail. It contains unique historical information about the maritime exploration and the evolution of nautical cartography. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant nautical chart where places (in Africa and parts of Brazil and India) are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes. While it enlightened the Italians to many new territories yet unknown to them, it was obsolete within months due to subsequent mapping voyages by the Portuguese.
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Cantino World Map, 1502
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The Cantino planisphere or Cantino world map is the earliest surviving map showing Portuguese geographic discoveries in the east and west. It is named after Alberto Cantino, an agent for the Duke of Ferrara, who successfully smuggled it from Portugal to Italy in 1502. The map is notable for portraying a fragmentary record of the Brazilian coast, and for depicting the African coast of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans with a remarkable accuracy and detail. It contains unique historical information about the maritime exploration and the evolution of nautical cartography. The Cantino planisphere is the earliest extant nautical chart where places (in Africa and parts of Brazil and India) are depicted according to their astronomically observed latitudes. While it enlightened the Italians to many new territories yet unknown to them, it was obsolete within months due to subsequent mapping voyages by the Portuguese.
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5370 x 2631 px | 40.4 MB
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45.5 x 22.3 cm | 17.9 x 8.8 in (300 dpi)
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