Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 58 of
58
with 100 triples per page.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio abstract "Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (Latin: A New and Most Exact Description of America or The Fourth Part of the World) is an ornate geographical map of the Americas, made in 1562 by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and Flemish artist Hieronymus Cock. The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa. Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California".The map consists of six neatly joined engraved sheets. Measuring 93×86 cm, it remained the largest map of America for a century. It has a longitude grid, the equator, the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, but no latitude grid. The map also lacks the Tordesillas meridian, demarcating the Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the New World. Along with mermaids and other sea creatures, the map features objects that had been popularized in Europe after the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, such as parrots, cannibals, Patagonian giants and an erupting volcano in central Mexico. One of the depicted Patagonian giants is handing an arc to a conquistador. The top left corner features the goddess Victoria behind the arms of Spain and France, which are carried by three putti. It is believed that the alliance between the two kingdoms, forged by the marriage of Philip II and Elisabeth of Valois, is the reason why two arms are positioned close to each other. The map uses the Classical Latin letter "V" instead of "U".There are two extant copies of the map, one in the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) and the other in the British Library (London). The actual total number of copies is not known. The Library of Congress' copy was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Gotha until its sale at a 1932 auction in Munich. It was then acquired by an American book dealer who in turn sold it to Lessing J. Rosenwald. In 1949 Rosenwald gave the map to the Library of Congress.".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio thumbnail Gutiérrez,_the_Americas,_1562.jpg?width=300.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageID "42139751".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageLength "3846".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageOutDegree "34".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageRevisionID "598655992".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Americas.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink British_Library.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Category:1562_works.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Category:Old_maps_of_the_Americas.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Central_America.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Conquistador.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Diego_Gutiérrez_(cartographer).
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Elisabeth_of_Valois.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Equator.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Etymology_of_California.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink File:Gutiérrez,_the_Americas,_1562.jpg.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Gotha.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Hieronymus_Cock.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Latin_alphabet.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Latitude.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Lessing_J._Rosenwald.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Library_of_Congress.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Longitude.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Mermaid.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Munich.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink New_World.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Origin_of_the_name_California.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Patagonia.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Philip_II_of_Spain.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Putto.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Scale_(physics).
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink South_America.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Tordesillas_meridian.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Treaty_of_Tordesillas.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Tropic_of_Cancer.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Tropic_of_Capricorn.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Victoria_(mythology).
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLink Wall_map.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageWikiLinkText "Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio hasPhotoCollection Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Commons_category.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio subject Category:1562_works.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio subject Category:Old_maps_of_the_Americas.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio hypernym Map.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio type Software.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio comment "Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio (Latin: A New and Most Exact Description of America or The Fourth Part of the World) is an ornate geographical map of the Americas, made in 1562 by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez and Flemish artist Hieronymus Cock. The map encompasses the eastern coast of North America, the entire Central and South America and parts of the western coasts of Europe and Africa.".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio label "Americae Sive Quartae Orbis Partis Nova Et Exactissima Descriptio".
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio sameAs m.0_xbbks.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio sameAs Q17012156.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio sameAs Q17012156.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio wasDerivedFrom Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio?oldid=598655992.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio depiction Gutiérrez,_the_Americas,_1562.jpg.
- Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio isPrimaryTopicOf Americae_Sive_Quartae_Orbis_Partis_Nova_Et_Exactissima_Descriptio.