Detail: Cosmographie universelle, selon les navigateurs tant anciens que modernes / par Guillaume Le Testu, pillotte en la mer du Ponent, de la ville francoyse de Grâce. Le Testu, Guillaume (1509-1572). - 1555
Greek cosmography: The Greeks drafted a comprehensive worldview. Thales of Millet in 650 BC imagined the roundness of the Earth. One of his disciples, Anaximander, created a map of the world centered on the Mediterranean.
The Fra Mauro map, one of the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was made around 1450 by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular world map drawn on parchment and set in a wooden frame, about two meters in diameter Cartography (from…