INDIA and the EASTERN HEMISPHERE, 1522
"A New Map of Both Indias" (Tabula Nova Utriusque Indiae) by Laurent Fries from Gaspar Trechsel's 1541 reprint of his 1522 maps for Ptolemy's Geography. The map follow's Waldseemüller's 1513 map but adds an array of vignettes purporting to depict the region's cultures.
- Date
- 1541
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Ptolemy, translated by Willibald Pirckheimer
- Place
- Odisha
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 1,000 × 750 pixels
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