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Geocarta Nautica Universale
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Geocarta Nautica Universale

A reproduction on 12 linen canvases in the Edward Luther Stevenson Collection of the Geocarta Nautica Universale ("Worldwide Maritime Chart") or 1523 Turin Map believed to have been made by Giovanni/Juan Vespucci from the Spanish royal standard map (Padron Real) held by the House of Trade (Casa de Contratacion) in Seville, Spain. Vespucci had been involved with the map's revision after various expeditions and with the geodesic research and arguments over the exact position of the demarcation line called for by the Treaty of Tordesillas. This is the first extant map recording the results of the Magellan expedition which Elcano returned to Seville in 1522 and the first recording the full extent of the Pacific Ocean.

Date
1523–1900
Mapmaker / publisher
Credited to Giovanni/Juan Vespucci
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
25,332 × 11,006 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-70); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Geocarta Nautica Universale" (1523–1900). Credited to Giovanni/Juan Vespucci, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geocarta_Nautica_Universale.jpg

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