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Guadeloupe sur planisphère de Cantino 1502
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Guadeloupe sur planisphère de Cantino 1502

The Cantino planisphere, completed by un unknown Portuguese cartographer in 1502, is one of the most precious cartographic monuments of all times. It depicts the world, as it became known to the European after the great exploration voyages of the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century to the Americas, Africa and India. It is now kept in the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense, Modena, Italy |date=1502

Date
1502
Mapmaker / publisher
Cantino_planisphere_(1502).jpg: anonymous Portuguese (1502) *derivative work: LPLT
Place
Guadeloupe
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
720 × 540 pixels

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Reason: public domain: scan (PD-old-100).

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"Guadeloupe sur planisphère de Cantino 1502" (1502). Cantino_planisphere_(1502).jpg: anonymous Portuguese (1502) *derivative work: LPLT, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guadeloupe_sur_planisph%C3%A8re_de_Cantino_1502.jpg

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