Northeast Africa: Map of the Nile from its source in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean, by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (16 August 1650 - 9 December 1718), 1690. A Venetian cartographer, Coronelli cites his sources for this Nile map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Pedro Páez and Jerónimo Lobo, and contrasts his work with an inset showing the “original” (that is, outdated) course of the Nile as presented by past geographers, who followed the Ptolemaic tradition of two source lakes.

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