1
Historical Context
2
Interactive Exploration
3
"Cosmographiae introductio"
4
Imago Mundi
5
The Ancient World
6
Cathay and Cipangu
7
The Route to the Indies
8
The New World
9
The Earth
10
The Ocean
11
The Sky
12
Digital Library
Navigation and celestial observation
Astronomical instruments for navigation
Measuring time
The longitude problem
Amerigo Vespucci’s "Cosmography"
The Four Days (treatise on cosmography)
Geographical boundaries of the four voyages
World map and terrestrial globe
Circumnavigation of Africa
Route to the Indiies
Accidental discovery of Brazil
Brazilian coast
Cape of Good Hope
East African coast
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Indian coast
Interior of India
Zilan (Ceylan)-Taprobane
Sumatra
Torrid zone
Magnetic declination
Climates
Semidiurnal and seminocturnal arcs
Southern hemisphere
Southern sky
Antarctic Pole
Aurora Australis
The rainbow
Longitude
Longitude and lunar eclipses
Astrolabe, quadrant, and sea chart
The Fourth Part of the World
A quarter meridian
Aurora australis
Every night in that part of the sky, innumerable vapors and bright flares streak across.
Mundus Novus
, 1504 (Formisano 1992, p. 54)
