Transcript Age of Exploration Powerpoint

Yesterday’s Unknown:
When the EARTH was the UNIVERSE
St. Brendan and
the whale from a
15th century
manuscript.
Al-Idrisi
Mappa
Mundi
(1154 CE)
Map by Ptolemy
(image recreated by Renaissance scholars based on Ptolemy’s geographic writings)
Goal = accurate representation of the world
World
Before
Columbus
-1459 –
Fra Mauro
Insularium Illustratum. Map of the known world. Henricus Martellus.1484 Medieval,
Netherlands Exploration 39 © John Poss
“America's birth certificate” – first document
on which the name “America” appears
(world map), Vesconte Maggiolo, detail:
North America, 1527
(oriented with South at the top)
Protolan atlas. Detail: New World., Battista Agnese.1544 Renaissance, Italy
Exploration 50 © Kathleen Cohen 1998
Map of the Americas. Detail.Abraham Ortelius.1587 Renaissance,Netherlands
Exploration 60 © Kathleen Cohen 1998
Columbus Discovers the New World, 1492
by Theodore de Bry after 1570
Sea monsters of the 16th century
Before 1453 Italy controlled
trade…
Venice
Genoa
After 1453
• Portugal
• Spain
• France
• Holland
• England
What did they need to explore?
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
• 1394-1460
• “Patron of
Explorers”
• School at Sagres
• Explore Africa
Vasco Da Gama
Bartholomeu Dias
Spain
Columbus
Sail West to get East
A Mariner’s Astrolabe
A Spanish Compass, ~15th C.