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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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