Amerigo Vespucci - History Lab https://historylab.es Sat, 14 Jan 2023 09:50:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Amerigo Vespucci - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Interactive exploration of the Waldseemüller planisphere https://historylab.es/interactive-exploration-of-the-waldseemuller-planisphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interactive-exploration-of-the-waldseemuller-planisphere Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:42 +0000 https://historylab.es/interactive-exploration-of-the-waldseemuller-planisphere/ Interactive exploration of the planisphere drawn up in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller using measurements and information gleaned from navigators and cartographers then in the service of Spain and Portugal

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]]> The large planisphere designed by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 and consisting of 12 sheets (138 cm high and 238 cm wide) represents the most up-to-date map of the time, based on the geographical knowledge gained from Spanish and Portuguese overseas navigations, starting with those collected by Amerigo Vespucci during his sailings in the New World from 1497 to 1504 (it is in honour of Vespucci that Waldseemüller christened those lands with the name America). Interactive exploration makes it possible to appreciate the density of the information contained in the map and to decipher its structures and graphic symbols.

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]]> Amerigo Vespucci https://historylab.es/amerigo-vespucci/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amerigo-vespucci Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:40:53 +0000 https://historylab.es/amerigo-vespucci/ The era of great discovieries

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]]> During the late 15th century and throughout the 16th century, knowledge of terrestrial geography, both physical and human, made great strides. Christopher Columbus, Giovanni Caboto and Amerigo Vespucci explored North and South America and consigned them to history. Meanwhile, Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail across the Indian Ocean to Asia, while Ferdinand Magellan and Francis Drake, who completed the circumnavigation of the globe, confirmed the geographic position of North and South America, which meanwhile became part of maps and world maps, in ever-increasing numbers.

This century of exploration saw the first contacts between different peoples that brought alliances, trade, wars and slavery. These contacts laid the foundation for the modern globalized world.

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