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still follows traditional Ptolemaic models. The Cantino maps, the land that was depicted west of miiller, however, recognizes this land as a new
depiction of the Far East reflects medieval fiction these islands was probably meant to represent not entity, and he shows it, on the gores of his globe
more than fact. America is shown as a long, America but China, since Columbus and his made the same year, as quite separate from either
narrow strip divided into two sections. The islands fellow navigators thought they had approached Japan (Zipangri) or China.
of the West Indies are given suitable prominence, the coast of Asia — although the possibility cannot Brazil, discovered by Cabral in 1500, is here —
especially Spagniolia (Hispaniola), and Isabella be excluded that the authors of these maps had for the first time ever on a map — given the name
(Cuba). On the slightly earlier Juan de la Cosa and some knowledge of the coast of Florida. Waldsee- America. The Cosmographiae introductio
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