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 The Ptolemy-Crivelli World Map, Rome? c. 1480 (c. 1590) |
 The World Map of Johannes Ruysch, Rome 1507 from the Rome edition of Ptolemy's Geography, 1507 |
 The Map of the New World of Sebastian Münster, Basel 1538 from the Basel edition of Ptolemy's Geography, 1540 |
 A chart of the Caribbean, with parts of North and South America from the manuscript atlas of Sebastiao Lopes, c. 1565 |
 The World Map of Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp 1570 from the Spanish edition of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Theatro de la Tierra Universal, Antwerp, 1588 |
 The Molineux-Wright World Map, London 1599 from Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations, 1599 |
 World map from Isidore of Seville (Augsburg, 1472), reproduced from Shirley, The Mapping of the World, p. 1 |
 World map from the anonymous Rudimentum Novitorum (Lubeck, 1474) Reproduced from Shirley, The Mapping of the World, p. xxi |
 World map from Ptolemy, Geographia (Rome, 1478) |
 World map by Hanns Rúst (Augsburg, late 15th century), redrawn by J. D. S. Knight in simplified form |
 World map in Ambrosius Macrobius, In Somnium Scipionis (Brescia, 1483) |
 Babylonian World Map c. 500 B.C. Reproduced from Imago Mundi, II (1937) opp. p. 1 |