I've added the Fra Mauro map of the globe to my collection of Historical World Maps. To charge the Fra Mauro map you lot need to click on the 1450 button. You tin give notice together with then zoom together with pan the map to explore it inwards detail.
Fra Mauro's globe map was created around 1450 past times the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro. His map is a circular planisphere alongside due south orientated to the top of the map. Fra Mauro's map is i of the commencement European globe 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 pump 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 thus able to depict from his ain sense together with from the many Arab traders together with globe travelers passing through Venice. Instead of relying on traditional religious maps Fra Mauro could genuinely acquire commencement mitt accounts from sailors, merchants together with other travelers.
One surface area where Fra Mauro's interruption from the religious tradition of map making is apparent is inwards having due south at the top. Placing due south at the top was mutual inwards Arab maps of the time. In contrast, most European globe maps had due east at the top, because due east was the direction of the biblical Garden of Eden. Many European maps of the fourth dimension likewise placed Jerusalem inwards the exact pump of the map (and world). Fra Mauro's map likewise breaks alongside this tradition.
One effect of Fra Mauro's to a greater extent than scientific approach to map making is that his map is the commencement European map to demo Nippon equally an isle together with to demo that it was possible to canvass all the agency around Africa.
You tin give notice larn a petty to a greater extent than nearly the Fra Mauro map on the brusk 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.
