Compass rose from Catalan Atlas
First compass rose depicted on a map, detail from the Catalan Atlas (1375), attributed to cartographer Abraham Cresques of Majorca.
- Date
- 1375
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- atlas page
- Original size
- 570 × 618 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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