Henricus Martellus, a German cartographer working in Florence in the late 15th century, produced a highly detailed map of the known world. According to experts, there is strong evidence that ...

MARTELLUS AND COLUMBUS Contrary to popular myth, 15th-century Europeans did not believe that Columbus would sail off the edge of a flat Earth, says Chet Van Duzer, the map scholar who led the ...

Art History ‘There Is No Reasonable Doubt Here’: A Research Team at Yale Proves That the 15th-Century Vinland Map Is a 20th-Century Fake The map was hailed as a major discovery when Yale ...

The images could reveal information about the map, which purports to be a 15th-century world map with a pre-Columbian depiction of “Vinland,” a section of North America’s coastline southwest of ...

Robinson, Kenneth R.: “Chosŏn Korea in the Ryukoku Kangnido: Dating the Oldest Extant Korean Map of the World (15th Century)”, Imago Mundi 59.2 (June 2007), 177–192. Rossabi, Morris (ed.). Eurasian ...

In 15th-century Europe, the apocalypse weighed heavily on the minds of the people. Plagues were rampant. The once-great capital of the Roman empire, Constantinople, had fallen to the Turks.

Acquired by Yale University and publicized to great fanfare in 1965, the Vinland Map —supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly ...