Giovanni Leardo
Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today.[2]
Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza.[3] A 1453 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1897). Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt. Figure 21.
- ↑ Evelyn Edson (2007). The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. JHU Press. pp. 188–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8589-1.
- ↑ Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps
- ↑ Wright, John Kirtland (1928). The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. American Geographical Society.
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