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The 1562 Map of America. Created by Diego Gutiérrez. The late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and other European explorers.
He does show a Strait of Anian between Asia and the Americas as well as NW and NE passages to the spice islands of the East: this he justifies on his studies of the ancient texts detailed in Legend 3 for as yet these were unexplored regions. The north polar regions as portrayed in the 1595 atlas.
It is a 13th-century copy of an original map dating from the 4th century, covering Europe, parts of Asia (India) and North Africa. The map is named after Konrad Peutinger, a German 15th–16th century humanist and antiquarian.
In late May 2003 the Library of Congress completed the purchase of the only surviving copy of the first image of the outline of the continents of the world as we know them today— Martin Waldseemüller's monumental 1507 world map.
The map represented a huge leap forward in knowledge, recognizing the newly found American landmass and forever changing the European understanding of a world divided into only three parts—Europe, Asia, and Africa.
6 kwi 2020 · Bowles's new one-sheet map of Asia, divided into its empires, kingdoms, states, and other subdivisions - laid down from observations of the most celebrated geographers. LOC 2006636624.jpg 7,943 × 6,342; 8.14 MB
Artistic Encounters between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. The great period of discovery from the latter half of the fifteenth through the sixteenth century is generally referred to as the Age of Exploration.
