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Martellus World-Map

The world map of "Henricus Martellus Germanus" (Heinrich Hammer the German), Florence, c. 1489. The first map with the Dragon Tail. It is a mixture of Ptolemy, recent Portuguese discoveries and unknown sources. Displays the Cape of Good Hope, rounded by Bartolomeo Dias in 1488.

Date
c. 1489
Mapmaker / publisher
Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Claudius Ptolemaeus)
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,348 × 1,641 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Martellus World-Map" (c. 1489). Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Claudius Ptolemaeus), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martellus_World-Map.jpg

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