Can I buy a copy of the map Columbus used to discover America?

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

I tried to google this, but couldn't find it. I would like to have a copy of it, as well as other ancient maps. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

momeNt · Mar 30, 2017

SaltyNuts said:
I tried to google this, but couldn't find it. I would like to have a copy of it, as well as other ancient maps. Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

What is that momeNt? Is that really it? I have my doubts. But thanks in any event!

OutHouse · Mar 30, 2017

SaltyNuts said:
What is that momeNt? Is that really it? I have my doubts. But thanks in any event!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...cations-written-passages-Martellus-Atlas.html

IronWing · Mar 30, 2017

momeNt said:

Maps from that era are fascinating. Coastlines are fairly accurate in latitude but way off in longitude because there was no good way to measure longitude at sea.

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

Wow, that is really cool! Any idea where I can purchase copies of it? I'd love to have one (and other very early maps). I agree its fascinating what early people thought the world looked like, relying in some cases on stories told over the centuries and what not.

WaTaGuMp · Mar 30, 2017

Al Gore discovered America dumb asses.

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

Thanks, as always, for your insightful contribution gump. You couldn't even get that right - he discovered the INTERNET, not America....

slayer202 · Mar 30, 2017

I miss the days when ATOT had good trolls

not even worth their time anymore

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

LOL indeed slayer. I don't know about back in the day, but there are several idiots (gump is only one of them) who think its funny to come into a thread, say something stupid that is not even remotely funny at all, and leave. Somehow they get a kick out of it. I will never understand. Low self-esteem I would guess, and that somehow pumps them up.

slayer202 · Mar 30, 2017

eh not bad, keep trying

WaTaGuMp · Mar 30, 2017

SaltyNuts said:
Thanks, as always, for your insightful contribution gump. You couldn't even get that right - he discovered the INTERNET, not America....

He had to discover America first, DUH.

deustroop · Mar 30, 2017

OK, Ok, I deus troop admit that I discovered america. Umm, wasn't going to announce it until tomorrow,

Carson Dyle · Mar 30, 2017

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

"eh not bad, keep trying" Oh, I see, you are calling me the troll. Tee hee hee. So who is a troll, the guy who posts a serious question about something that seriously interests him, or a guy who keeps popping into threads he has no interest in to call people trolls? If you are not interested in old maps, the get out, and go start a topic that interests you, like My Little Pony or Good Housekeeping.

SaltyNuts · Mar 30, 2017

Moment and Outhouse, I really appreciate it. Knowing its called the Marsellus map is very helpful - I can find prints of that now. But they don't really look like the link you posted - they look crummier. If anyone happens to know a good company to get map prints from, please let me know. Thanks!

mxnerd · Mar 30, 2017

Probably one of these.
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Sorry, I did not read the article. Don't know whether these maps were before or after Columbus found America.

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Err, should be after.

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https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/columbia-or-america/maps

Portion of Juan de la Cosa's Mappa Mundi showing the New World, 1500

The Cantino planisphere, 1502

The famous Martin Waldseemuller 1507 world map

Cordiform projection world map by Gerhard Mercator, 1538

master_shake_ · Mar 30, 2017

WaTaGuMp said:
Al Gore discovered America dumb asses.

also the internet and the environment

deustroop · Mar 30, 2017

SaltyNuts said:
Moment and Outhouse, I really appreciate it. Knowing its called the Marsellus map is very helpful - I can find prints of that now. But they don't really look like the link you posted - they look crummier. If anyone happens to know a good company to get map prints from, please let me know. Thanks!

Hold on there son .
Here's the blurb under the map :
The Martellus Map was created in 1491 and is said to have been used by Christopher Columbus to navigate the Atlantic.

But that map has nothing about the Atlantic, off shore the spanish coast and less than nothing north of that. It would only help Columbus if he were heading to malta.
I'm no mariner but you push off Portugal/Spain in a row boat and accounting for the return of the current from Canada to drift you south, any one could find Cuba.

IronWing · Mar 30, 2017

mxnerd said:
Probably one of these.

https://olinuris.library.cornell.edu/columbia-or-america/maps

Portion of Juan de la Cosa's Mappa Mundi showing the New World, 1500

The Cantino planisphere, 1502

The famous Martin Waldseemuller 1507 world map

Given the very short time that the coast of the Americas had been mapped, all three of these are pretty good.

pete6032 · Mar 30, 2017

I'm pretty sure this is the one he used.

IronWing · Mar 30, 2017

pete6032 said:
I'm pretty sure this is the one he used.

The Peterson Guide to Delicious Animals

mxnerd · Mar 30, 2017

pete6032 said:
I'm pretty sure this is the one he used.

I'm pretty sure it's not.

John Connor · Mar 30, 2017

I had a treasure map I got after riding the Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland. I wanted to find the gold that said was still uncovered.

Can I buy a copy of the map Columbus used to discover America?

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