Medieval pilgrim

’s map to Jerusalem

The Hereford Mappa Mundi (c. 1285)

Fra Mauro map, 1450Fra Mauro was a monk who lived in Venice.

The Juan de la Cosa m

ap (painted on a sheep skin), 1500

The Piri Reis map, 1513

Portuguese portolan m

ap, 1571

Azores m

ap, 1500s

Black S

ea map, 1559

Cantino P

lanisphere, 1502D

rawn by A

lberto Cantino, it is the earliest m

ap show

ing Portuguese territory in B

razil

Japanese portolan map, 1600s

World m

ap by Martin W

aldseemueller, 1507

World m

ap by Willem

Blaeu, 1571

Mercator, m

ap of the Ottom

an Em

pire, 1453

World m

ap by Mercator, 1587

World m

ap by Petrus P

lanicus, 1594

Map of Japan by P

ieter van der As, 1707

“The Belgian Lion” by H

ondius, 1611

Cartoon map of Britain by Robert Dighton, 1793

The Prime Meridian, Greenwich, England (The statue is called “The Gyroscope.”)