These maps are drawn from the Princeton University Library website To the Mountains of the Moon, devoted to the European exploration and mapping of Africa.
1554 Sebastian Münster
1584 Abraham Ortelius
1644 Willem Janszoon Blaeu,
1710 Herman Moll
1737 Johann Matthias Hase
1787 Jean-Baptiste Louis Clouet
1805 John Cary
1851 John Tallis
1852 Victor Levasseur
1856 J Andriveau-Goujon
1880 Eugène Andriveau-Goujon,
North Africa
1552 Sebastian Münster
1670 Olfer Dapper
1700 Pierre Mortier
1814 John Pinkerton
1851 John Tallis
Central, East and West Africa
1603 Abraham Ortelius
1730 Guillaume de L’Isle
1813 John Pinkerton
1828 Adrien Hubert Brué
1860s A. Fullarton & Co.
South Africa
1541 Martin Waldseemüller
1561 Giralamo Ruscelli
1635 Willem Janszoon Blaeu
1719 Henri Abraham Chatelain
1804 Johann Christoph Matthias Reinecke
1860s Heinrich Kiepert
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Thank you to Princetown University Library and John Delaney
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te faltaría poner algo sobre el mapa de peters o una comparativa más real. algo más actual. hoy en día sabemos que todos esos mapas tenian una perspectiva desde el norte y eurocentrista, que hacia africa y sudamerica mas pequeñas.
http://www.marilink.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/true-size-africa.jpg
http://www.marilink.net/2010/10/12/el-verdadero-tamano-de-africa/
http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/curiosidades/mapas-e-imagen-mundo.html
http://www.google.com.ar/search?q=mapa+de+peters
Thanks; what a great collection!
Willem Janszoon Blaeu,Genius…
Dear, I like very much all your maps of Africa because I work
on the palaeoenvironments of North tropical Africa, particularly of Chad basin during Holocene times, and almost the last millenium where there are some “historical” data. Your serie of maps is not complete – two older are important (but other exist again !) are here missing, the Fra Mauro map, ca. 1450 AD and the Ibn Said map (13nd c AD, see D.Lange, 1980) I can send you mail/copies.
If you can read french I can send you some published papers (give me an e-mail to send /.pdf) and presently I have an important manuscrit quite ready for publication on the Sahel during the last 3 millenia, People and Climates (in collaboration with an archaeologist).
Meileures salutations, Jean Maley
what about the maps of the Muslims? e.g. Muhammad al-Idrisi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_al-Idrisi
Ja pierdole! Wypas, że na chuja wskocz i nie złaź.
Very nice collection. But I missed the map by E.G. Ravenstein of the Royal Geographical Society.
Lovely display of maps of Africa, for people who are interested in acquiring an original antique map of Africa, or its regions, we have a good collection on-line at:
http://alteagallery.com/stock.php?subject=africa&search=subject
we ship all over the world and we supply a certificate of authenticity with each map, our antique map business has been established for 20 years. Best wishes, Altea Antique Maps & Rare Charts
also well worth checking out the Maps of Africa from the Univ of Illinois’ collections.
A selection on Flickr at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47195550@N05/sets/72157623382808472/
many, many more at:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/contentdm/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fafricanmaps