This week's historical the world map is Oronce Fine's 'Modern together with Complete Map of the Entire World'. published inward 1531. It is the earliest known map on which the refer 'Terra australis' appears. You tin plough over the sack sentiment the map inward exceptional on Mappae Mundi, my collection of vintage the world maps (to sentiment Fine's map simply click on the 1531 button).
Terra Australis (Latin for South Land) was a hypothetical southern continent which had been believed to be past times unopen to from at to the lowest degree the fifth century onward. The beingness of Terra Australis was supposed on the thought that all the province inward the Northern Hemisphere should live on balanced past times province inward the south. It is believed that Oronce Fine based his map of Terra australis on a 1523 globe past times Johannes Schöner (now lost). The cast together with outline of Terra australis on Fine's map is presumably completely imaginary.
Under the map label 'Terra australis' are the Latin words 'center inventa sed nondum plene cognita' (recently discovered but non yet fully known). Antarctica is nonetheless labelled 'Terra Australis Incognita' (Southern Land Unknown) on the the world maps of Gerardus Mercator (1606), Pierre Mariette (1642) together with Joan Blaeu (1664) - all of which tin plough over the sack likewise live on viewed on Mappae Mundi.
The interactive version of Oronce Fine's 'Modern together with Complete Map of the Entire World' used inward Mappae Mundi has been retrieved from the Library of Congress.
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