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
Site Map
1. Historical Context
Cosmography
Literary and geographic discoveries
Humanism and cartography
Ptolemy’s
Geography
and its Latin translation
Henricus Martellus Germanus
Matthias Ringmann
Martin Waldseemüller
Timeline
2. Interactive Exploration
Explore
Claudius Ptolemy
Amerigo Vespucci
Composition of the Map
Parallels
Climates
Winds
Ptolemy's
Oikumene
Kingdoms and Provinces
Toponyms (
Mundus Novus
)
Cartouches
Islands
Mountains
Main Rivers
Iconographical elements
Coats of Arms
3. "Cosmographiae introductio"
Rudiments of geometry
Sphere, axes, and Poles
Celestial circles
Theory of the sphere
Celestial zones and regions of the Earth
Parallels
Climates
Winds
Elements of cosmography
Appendix
The four ocean voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
4. Imago Mundi
Before Waldseemüller
Waldseemüller’s legacy
Other contemporary world maps
Globes
5. The Ancient World
Before Ptolemy
Ptolemy’s
Geography
6. Cathay and Cipangu
The Mendicant Orders
Marco Polo
Niccolò di Giovanni Conti
Fra Mauro’s map and the 1457
Mappa Mundi
7. The Route to the Indies
Turkish blockade of the Mediterranean
Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama
8. The New World
Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli
Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
Political division of the New World
9. The Earth
Cartographic projections
Ptolemy’s projections
The extended Ptolemaic world maps of Henricus Martellus
Francesco Rosselli’s world maps
Waldseemüller’s extended world map
Waldseemüller’s terrestrial globe
Extending the world
10. The Ocean
Sea charts
Waldseemüller’s sea chart
Navigational instruments
Vessels
Ocean navigation
11. The Sky
Navigation and celestial observation
Astronomical instruments for navigation
Measuring time
The longitude problem
Amerigo Vespucci’s "Cosmography"
12. Digital Library
Books
Maps
