Genoese map
The Genoese map.
Indian ocean portion of the Genoese map.
The Genoese map is a 1457 world map. The map relied extensively on the account of the traveler to Asia Niccolo da Conti, rather than the usual source of Marco Polo.[1] The author is not known, but is a more modern development than the Fra Mauro world map, with fairly good proportions given to each continents. The map also depicts a three-masted European ship in the Indian Ocean, something which had not occurred yet at the time.[1]
See also
Notes
- 1 2 Whitfield 1998, p. 36
References
- Whitfield, Peter (1998). New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration. Routledge. ISBN 9780415920261.
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