• Johannes Ruysch (c. 1460? in Utrecht – 1533 in Cologne), a.k.a. Johann Ruijsch or Giovanni Ruisch was an explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript...
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    this Island. The legend is also found inscribed in the 1507/08 map of Johannes Ruysch, which reads (in English): This island Antilia was once found by the...
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  • surname include: Johannes Ruysch (c.1460–1533), Dutch explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript illustrator and painter Ruysch Map of the World,...
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    Harbour, Quebec. The Isle of Demons first appears in the 1508 map of Johannes Ruysch. It may simply be a relocated version of the older legendary island...
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    Asia". Some maps, e.g., the 1506 Contarini–Rosselli map and the 1508 Johannes Ruysch map, bowing to Ptolemaic authority and Columbus's assertions, have...
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    of the 16th–17th centuries Russia and Moscovia 1507 Planisphere by Johannes Ruysch 1539 Carta marina Olaus Magnus Moscovia, Russia on territory of Ukraine...
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  • map is currently at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Johannes Ruysch an explorer, cartographer, astronomer and painter from the Low Countries...
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  • (Dardanelles, Ottoman Empire, 1465–1554/1555), author of the Kitab-ı Bahriye Johannes Ruysch (Netherlands, c. 1466–1530), explorer, cartographer, astronomer, manuscript...
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    1507 - "A more universal map of the known world from recently completed observations" Johannes Ruysch...
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  • of Demons, between Newfoundland and Greenland, e.g. the 1508 map of Johannes Ruysch. According to Cortesão, Pizzigano's "Satanazes" is Portuguese for "satans"...
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