The Contarini–Rosselli map of 1506 was the first printed world map showing the New World.
6-532: The Contarini–Rosselli map was designed by Giovanni Matteo Contarini and engraved by Francesco Rosselli . It is a copper-engraved map and was published in Venice or Florence in 1506. The only surviving copy is in the British Library . There had been many voyages of discovery in the immediately preceding years: Although there had been maps created after these voyages, such as Juan de la Cosa 's map of
12-530: A limited number of copies was made, to be held under lock and key. This situation changed drastically from 1506 to 1507 when three separate efforts to produce world maps were published. The Contarini-Rosselli map of 1506 (now in the British Library ) and Martin Waldseemüller 's map of the world and globe of 1507 were influential, but not very widely published. There is only one original copy of each in existence, and both of these copies were discovered in
18-547: Is the first world map to have Columbus' discoveries incorporated. It was first discovered in 1922 and currently resides in the British Library . On the map, Contarini refers to himself as "famed in the Ptolemaean art" but no other maps by him have surfaced. In a titular inscription describing his map, Contarini called the land later called America by Martin Waldseemüller the Antipodes . The inscription, placed to
24-459: The 20th century. By contrast, Johannes Ruysch 's 1507 map of the world was much more widely published and many copies were produced and still exist. It therefore had a very large influence. Giovanni Matteo Contarini Giovanni Matteo Contarini (1452-1507) was a cartographer and likely a member of a prominent Venetian family. In 1506, Contarini created a world map that Francesco Rosselli later engraved. The Contarini-Rosselli map
30-519: The west of this land said: The world and all its seas on a plane map, Europe, Lybia [i.e., Africa], Asia, and the Antipodes, the poles and zones and sites of places, the parallels for the climes of the mighty globe, lo! Giovanni Matteo Contarini, famed in the Ptolemæan art, has compiled and marked it out. Whither away? Stay, traveller, and behold new nations and a new-found world. Contarini father
36-542: The world in 1500 (based on Columbus' second voyage) and the Cantino world map (circa 1502), the information on these maps was closely guarded. These maps were commissioned by the Portuguese and Spanish governments, which wanted to create trade monopolies over the regions they depicted. The royal powers worried that leaked information about geography could make it easier for other nations to challenge their supremacy. Often
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