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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This week at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, from August 11-19, an interdisciplinary team is at work on a multispectral imaging project to facilitate the study of a 15th century world ...
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 ...
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India Today on MSNThe evolution of maps: From 500 BC to the modern age
The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, forever pushing the limits of the known world. Intrepid figures like Christopher ...
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 ...
Yale University's Vinland Map, which has stirred up its share of controversy over claims it was the earliest depiction of the New World, is a fake, the school said.
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