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Planisphere by Domingos Teixeira - 1573
Series title
At the Heat of the MapsThis nautical planisphere was made in 1573 by Domingos Teixeira, a member of a prominent lineage of Portuguese cartographers. It represents the extent of European knowledge after a century and a half of exploratory voyages. Only Oceania and the confines of Asia and America remained unknown. This portolan bore a strong geopolitical significance because it depicts the meridian and anti-meridian defined by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 which drew a demarcation line between the areas of influence of the two main Western colonial powers of the time, Spain and Portugal.
A map kept at the French national library BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Maps and Plans Department, shelf mark number GE SH ARCH-3
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00:03:49
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Color
Sound
Sound
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French
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HD
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