Mapping an Atlantic World

Alida C. Metcalf

  • Mapping an Atlantic World
  • Chapter 1 The Atlantic on the Periphery
    • Fig. 1.1. The Atlantic on T-O Mappaemundi
    • Fig. 1.2. Pillars of Hercules at the Entrance to the Atlantic
    • Fig. 1.3. The Atlantic on a Medieval World Chart
    • Fig. 1.4. The Atlantic on Transitional Mappaemundi
    • Fig. 1.5 Atlantic Details on a Catalan World Chart
    • Fig. 1.6. The Atlantic on a Ptolemaic Mappamundi
    • Fig. 1.7. The Atlantic on the World Map by Henricus Martellus
    • Fig. 1.8. The Atlantic on Behaim’s Globe
  • Chapter 2 The Year 1500
    • Fig. 2.1. St. Christopher
    • Fig. 2.2. Martin Waldseemüller, Universalis Cosmographia, 1507
    • Fig. 2.3 Waldseemüller’s Globe, 1507
    • Fig. 2.4. Johannes Ruysch, Universalior cogniti orbis tabula ex recentibus confecta observationibus
  • Chapter 3 Chartmakers
    • Fig. 3.1. Atlantic Compass Rose
    • Fig. 3.2. Invisible Circles, Carta del Cantino, 1502
    • Fig. 3.3. Main Compass Rose, Carta del Cantino, 1502
    • Fig. 3.4. Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean, ca. 1320-50
    • Fig. 3.5. Grazioso Benincasa, A Portolan Chart of Europe, 1470
    • Fig. 3.6. An Illustrated Chart
    • Fig. 3.7. The West African Coastline on Two Charts
    • Fig. 3.8. Compass Roses on Carta nautica, 1471-82
    • Fig. 3.9. A Cityscape and a Landscape on Aguiar’s Portolan Chart, 1492
  • Chapter 4 From Manuscript to Print
    • Fig. 4.1. Eastern and Western Hemispheres, 1507
    • Fig. 4.2. Waldseemüller’s Fourth Part of the World on Three Maps, 1507
    • Figure 4.3. Mountains on Waldseemüller’s Universalis Cosmographia
    • Fig. 4.4. Woodcutters’ Techniques for Bodies of Water
    • Fig. 4.5. Three Windheads at the Top of Waldseemüller’s Universalis Cosmographia
  • Chapter 5 Parrots and Trees
    • Figure 5.1. Parrots Signify Brazil on Three Maps
    • Figure 5.2. The Portuguese Padrões on Three Maps
    • Figure 5.3. Engraved and Woodcut Parrots
    • Figure 5.4. The Abstraction of Trees
    • Figure 5.5. Parrots Signify Africa on Carta del Cantino
    • Figure 5.6. Elephants
  • Chapter 6 The Cannibal Scene
    • Figure 6.1. Cannibalism in Brazil
    • Figure 6.2. Johann Froschauer, Woodcut of South American Indians
    • Figure 6.3. Two Monsters among Men in South Africa
  • Chapter 7 Conclusion
    • Figure 7.1. Waldseemüller’s Carta Marina
  • Plates
    • 1. Carta Catalana
    • 2. Il Mappamondo di Fra Mauro, 1450
    • 3. Nicolò Germano, Planisfero, 1466
    • 4. Juan de la Cosa, Carta Universal, 1500
    • 5. Portolan Chart (King-Hamy), ca. 1502
    • 6. Carta del Cantino, 1502
    • 7. Nicolay de Caverio, Planisphère nautique, 1506
    • 8. Carta nautica, ca. 1471-82
    • 9. Jorge de Aguiar, Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Sea, 1492
    • 10. Pedro Reinel, Portulan, ca. 1485
    • 11. Pedro Reinel, Portulan (Atlantik), ca. 1504
    • 12. Portolan (Weltkarte), 1502-6
  • Additional Content
    • Ptolemy’s Geographia
    • Martellus’ Atlantic Chart/Map
    • Waldseemüller’s Globe, Spinning Digital Model
    • Waldseemüller’s Globe, 3D Model
    • Vespucci’s Fly
    • Rosselli’s World Map, 1508
    • Mercator’s World Map
    • The Image on the Book’s Cover
  • Acknowledgements
  • Reviews
  • About the Author
  • Contact

Reviews

Reviews of Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500

Brian Bockelman, The Americas 78(2021): 507–508.

Neil Kennedy, Global Maritime History, 04 Oct 2021.

Jörn Seemann, Cartographic Perspectives 98(2021): 66–69.

Laura Krueger, Western Association of Map Libraries 53:1(2021).

Christian Koot, Journal of Latin American Geography 20(2021): 208-210.

Allan Greer, Renaissance Quarterly 75:2 (2022): 688-690.

Timothy Wolters, The Northern Mariner 32:1(2022): 107-110.

 

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