The Cantino Planisphere changed the world (no pun intended). Way back in 2007 there were only low quality small jpg images of the map available online. Then the exhibition “Encompassing the globe: Portugal and the world in the 16th & 17th centuries” had a website with a (for the time) much higher quality zoomable file of the map. I spent hours taking screenshots of each section at the highest zoom level and stitching them together. I gained a great appreciation for this artefact and uploaded my composite png image to Wikipedia for free use, where it can still be found 16 years later. I’m proud to be a history nerd and p0mp3y’s channel expresses this spirit so well!
Cool video! I always liked looking at maps and I find it interesting how people depicted the newly discovered land in history. Aaand I spend too much time looking at maps while playing Paradox games so... :P
The Cantino Planisphere changed the world (no pun intended). Way back in 2007 there were only low quality small jpg images of the map available online. Then the exhibition “Encompassing the globe: Portugal and the world in the 16th & 17th centuries” had a website with a (for the time) much higher quality zoomable file of the map. I spent hours taking screenshots of each section at the highest zoom level and stitching them together. I gained a great appreciation for this artefact and uploaded my composite png image to Wikipedia for free use, where it can still be found 16 years later. I’m proud to be a history nerd and p0mp3y’s channel expresses this spirit so well!
thats very kind of you! :)
Cool video! I always liked looking at maps and I find it interesting how people depicted the newly discovered land in history.
Aaand I spend too much time looking at maps while playing Paradox games so... :P
I love how these old maps has so much character and decorations
agreed