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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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  • Bartolomeo Pareto (1455) Genoese map (1457) Map of Juan de la Cosa (1500) Cantino planisphere (1502) Piri Reis map (1513) Dieppe maps (c. 1540s-1560s)...
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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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    some time between 1500 and 1510.: 107  Furthermore, the Portuguese Cantino planisphere of 1502 and several other European maps dating from the first decade...
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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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  • onwards in Europeans sources. Early 16th century European maps such as Cantino planisphere, showing the knowledge of Malay Peninsula before the actual arrival...
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