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I've added the Fra Mauro map of the basis to my collection of Historical World Maps. To charge the Fra Mauro map yous ask to click on the 1450 button. You tin together with then zoom together with pan the map to explore it inwards detail.

Fra Mauro's basis map was created roughly 1450 past times the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro. His map is a round off planisphere alongside southward orientated to the top of the map. Fra Mauro's map is ane of the get-go European basis maps to interruption from the tradition of Bible based cartography. In other words Fra Mauro's map favors geographical accuracy rather than religious beliefs together with mythological stories.

Fra Mauro lived inwards the Republic of Venice. Venice had for centuries been an of import midpoint of merchandise betwixt Europe together with the Middle East together with Africa. Before becoming a monk Fra Mauro had himself traveled equally a merchant together with a soldier. As a cartographer he was thence able to delineate from his ain sense together with from the many Arab traders together with basis travelers passing through Venice. Instead of relying on traditional religious maps Fra Mauro could truly acquire get-go mitt accounts from sailors, merchants together with other travelers.

One expanse where Fra Mauro's interruption from the religious tradition of map making is apparent is inwards having southward at the top. Placing southward at the top was mutual inwards Arab maps of the time. In contrast, most European basis maps had eastward at the top, because eastward was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden. Many European maps of the fourth dimension besides placed Jerusalem inwards the exact midpoint of the map (and world). Fra Mauro's map besides breaks alongside this tradition.

One number of Fra Mauro's to a greater extent than scientific approach to map making is that his map is the get-go European map to present Nippon equally an isle together with to present that it was possible to sheet all the agency roughly Africa.

You tin acquire a petty to a greater extent than nearly the Fra Mauro map on the brusque video on the British Library's Magnificent Map website.

The Fra Mauro map shown inwards my Historical World Maps comes from the David Rumsey Map Collection. It is an 1854 re-create of the original.