Memoir on a mappemonde by Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name America: now in the Royal Collection at Windsor.
Memoir on a mappemondeby Leonardo da Vinci, being the earliest map hitherto known containing the name America; now in the Royal Collection at Windsor.
The most famous of all these early maps is the Catalan Mappemonde of 1375, preserved in the great library at Paris.
Molineaux is known to have used Drake’s reports and perhaps his map, in making his mappemonde of 1600, of which an outline sketch of a part of the Pacific coast is annexed.
The mappemonde is in the Grenville copy, and was in a copy possessed by Rodd, the London dealer, fifty years ago.
The great mappemonde of Gerard Mercator, introducing his well-known projection, followed in 1569.
Reference has been made elsewhere to the conspicuous work of Gerard Mercator, which was a sort of culmination of his geographical views, in his great mappemonde of 1569.
This adds further to the uncertainty of what is called the Cabot mappemonde of 1544.
He accompanied the expedition of 1500, and declared that the country where Cabral landed was identical with a tract marked upon a Mappemonde belonging to Pero Vaz Bisagudo, a Portuguese.
The Mappemonde is a compromise between, or combination of, the portolano and the Mediaeval theoretical map, and is quite a landmark in the history of cartography.
Apian had been employed to make the mappemondefor it, which was to show the new discoveries.
Sketched from a photograph of the original mappemondein the great library at Paris.
Apianus in French, at Antwerp, with a folding mappemonde (p.
The name, however, came very slowly into use, appearing only occasionally in some book, till in 1522 it gained a more permanent place on a mappemonde in the Geographia of Ptolemy.
Latin editions of Apianus at Antwerp and Cologne, with a folding mappemonde (Carter-Brown, i.
Editions of Apianus in Latin at Antwerp and Paris, and in Dutch at Antwerp, with mappemonde and two small maps.
A Dutch edition of Apianus, printed at Antwerp, with mappemonde (Carter-Brown, ii.
The peninsula of California, but nothing north of it, is again delineated in a Spanish mappemonde of 1573, shown in Lelewel.
Sketch of a section of the so-called Sebastian Cabot Mappemonde in the National Library at Paris, following a photographic reproduction belonging to Harvard College Library.
In 1587 there was a French text issued, the mappemonde of which is reproduced in Vivien de St. Martin’s Histoire de la géographie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mappemonde" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
