The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . Carta da TULvigarc per Ic Jsole nuocavKvUtrovatc in la parte dcllc IndiCf in tho library at Modena. (30) ThoMaggiolo family, famous for its cartography, flourished in Genoabetween, 1511 and 1648. Visconte Maggiolo, tlie founder of tliofamily, is known to have produced nineteen atlases between 1511and 1587. A map by Giaeonio Maggiolo, of date 1562, is in theBritish Museum. (37)
The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literatureWith new maps, and original American articles by eminent writersWith American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date . Carta da TULvigarc per Ic Jsole nuocavKvUtrovatc in la parte dcllc IndiCf in tho library at Modena. (30) ThoMaggiolo family, famous for its cartography, flourished in Genoabetween, 1511 and 1648. Visconte Maggiolo, tlie founder of tliofamily, is known to have produced nineteen atlases between 1511and 1587. A map by Giaeonio Maggiolo, of date 1562, is in theBritish Museum. (37) Battista Agneso laboured between 1527 and1554 in Venice, and tlie thirteen atlases he has left behind him aropieces of fine artistic work adorned with charming miniatures. Twoof these atlases, of date 1527 and 1536, are in the British Museum. In tho 15th century and tho beginning of the 16th Spanish,Portuguese, Greek, and French cartograpiicrs appear as com]>etitorswith the Italian, Catalonian, and Balearic artists. We namoonly tiio important. ,Juan do la Casa, a Basque, and acompanion of , drew in 1500 a map of tho world in wliichfor tho first time tho hitherto discovered coasts and islands of. Fig. 3.—Chart of the Mediten-aneaa (P. Vesconte, 1311). America were introduced. A map of the world by Garcia do Torero,1522, is preserved at Turin ; and two general maps, the one dating1527 (probably by Fernando Colon, son of Columbus) and the other1529 (by Diego Ribcro), exist at Weimar. Between 1558 and 1569Diego Homem produced several beautiful atlases; of these four arein Italy, and one, of date ] 568, at Dresden. Among the Frenchworld-maps a special place is due to that drawn up by order ofKing Henry II. It is published by Jomard in his Jlfonumois dcIn gtogra2)hie. As far as Italian navigation extended, and especiauy witnin thelimits of the Mediterranean, a very correct representation of theooaats and of the contours of tho several countries was secured atun ea
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