File:Conceptions Colomb map-en.svg

DescriptionConceptions Colomb map-en.svg	English: Columbus’s geographical conceptions
Date	28 December 2013
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Author	Mindriot
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Translated from Conceptions Colomb map-fr.svg which was created by Ewan_ar_Born.

Based upon a map published in Jean Amsler, « La Renaissance (1415-1600) », Histoire universelle des explorations, tome II, Nouvelle Librairie de France, 1968, p. 56/57 (encart couleur).

[1: brown shades] Contour of the lands and extent of the Asian continent towards the east according to Columbus. This geograpic notion is based notably on the works of Martin Behaim, german cosmographer and author of a mappa mundi dated 1492.

[2: black line] First known cartographic representation of the new lands discovered in the west from the map traced by Juan de la Cosa, captain and cartographer, in 1500.

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