Florentine Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli creates a…

1457 CE

Florentine Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli creates a world map in 1457 that perpetuates an error made by Ptolemy nearly fifteen hundred years earlier, thus severely misrepresenting, by shortening, the globe’s actual circumference.

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Florence > Firenze Toscana Italy View →

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Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli View →

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Florence, Medici-ruled View →

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Renaissance, Italian View →

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Painting and Drawing View → Cartography View → Cosmography View → Geography View →

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