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Published 10 years ago by TNY with 9 Comments

Italian Pietro Coppo's World Map from 1520

Notice how unknown the rest of the world was, especially the Americas.

 

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  • Splitfish
    +5

    Someone go back in time and give this guy some GPS navigation!

  • geoleo
    +2

    This is one cool map. Imagine actually trying to use this thing...

  • drummer
    +2

    It's actually pretty good considering the technology they had at the time!

  • dmt
    +2

    Africa sure is thorny.

  • tempbrianna
    +1

    just because one person didn't know about the rest of the world doesn't mean that others didn't.

  • melaniee
    +1

    Was this from when they still thought the earth was flat?

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