Planisphere - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:28:27 +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 Planisphere - 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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]]> Cantino planisphere https://historylab.es/cantino-planisphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cantino-planisphere Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:24 +0000 https://historylab.es/cantino-planisphere/ Planisphere commissioned in 1502 by Alberto Cantino, an 'orator' sent by Ercole I d'Este to Portugal

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]]> The planisphere, made in 1502, is named after Alberto Cantino ‘orator’ of Ercole I d’Este in Portugal and is considered to be one of the oldest in representing even newly discovered lands: the planisphere shows, in fact, the coasts of Florida and Brazil, as well as highlighting the ‘raya’, i.e. the line dividing Portuguese and Spanish possessions defined by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494. The map is presumably a copy from the Padrão Real (the official map of the Portuguese crown), updated with the latest geographical discoveries: Cantino managed to steal it to send it to the d’Este court despite Portuguese prohibitions on exporting maps abroad.

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]]> Kunstmann IV Planisphere https://historylab.es/kunstmann-iv-planisphere/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kunstmann-iv-planisphere Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:24 +0000 https://historylab.es/kunstmann-iv-planisphere/ German artist Otto Progel's 1836 painted copy of the original planisphere Kunstmann IV lost in a bombing raid during World War II in 1945

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]]> The original Kunstmann IV planisphere, now lost, was anonymous and undated but is attributed to Jorge Reinel and his father, Pedro Reinel, who would have made it around 1519, when they were working for the Casa de Contratación (House of Contracts) of Spain. The planisphere constitutes a compendium of the geographical discoveries up to just before the voyage task of Magellan and Elcano. Historiography closely links the making of the planisphere to the preparation of that expedition, due to the assonance between the contents of the map (including the location of the Moluccas and the vast size of the Pacific Ocean) with the measurements indicated in the geographical memory (Lembrança geográfica) sent by Magellan to Charles V in September 1519

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