![]() ![]() Technik: Copper print colorit: colored condition: Margins on the right and left professionally completed size (in cm): 38 x 53. ![]() It also allowed the expansion of Christianity. The age of discovery and later exploration of Europe made it possible to map the world, which led to a new worldview and distant civilizations, but also to the spread of diseases that decimated populations that were not previously in contact with Eurasia and Africa, and to enslavement, Exploitation, military conquest and economic dominance of Europe and its colonies over indigenous people. European overseas exploration led to the rise of world trade and the European colonial empires, with contact between the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) and the New World (America and Australia) creating Colombian exchange, a wide range of plant transfers, animals, and food, human populations (including slaves), communicable diseases and culture between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere. These discoveries led to numerous naval expeditions across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and land expeditions in America, Asia, Africa, and Australia that continued into the late 19th century, followed by exploration of the polar regions in the 20th century. Global exploration began with the Portuguese discoveries of the Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores in 14, the African coast after 1434, and the sea route to India in 1498 and from the Crown of Castile (Spain) the transatlantic trips of Christopher Columbus to America between 14 and the first world tour in the years 1519?1522. It regulated the distribution of the discovered countries between Portugal and Spain. The Tordesillas Treaty of 1494 is an example of this. This is evident in the overseas colonies, including the Spaniards, Portuguese, English, Dutch and French. The great European powers also expected an expansion of their political sphere of influence. ![]() that Christianity should be spread in the New World (missionary). Not only the seafarers with their discoveries, but also they brought about changes in the world view. Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei also belong to this group. In terms of content, however, it also includes astronomy, which is associated with the names of Tycho Brahe, Nikolaus Kopernikus, Isaac Newton and Johannes Kepler, among others. The idea of the age of discoveries is shaped by seafaring and discoveries overseas. The era is considered to be in the early modern period and is primarily concerned with the knowledge of seafarers and explorers. History: Popular science refers to the period from about the 15th to the 18th centuries. ![]() Map shows the world with the poles as an insert map. Technik: Copper print colorit: original colored condition: Very good size (in cm): 26 x 36. He was also the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, one of the greatest natural history artists of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1616 Merian moved to Frankfurt to work for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. Merian went on to study and work in various cities throughout France. Matthäus Merian, the famous Swiss publisher and engraver, began his career in Zürich where he learned the art of copperplate engraving. In Europe, the prospect of an open Northeast Passage to the Pacific is still prominently shown, with the coastlines of Nova Zembla, etc., still only partially charted. Korea however is shown as an island, next to vague Japan and an oversized Philippines. The East Coast is still very primitive, whereas on the West Coast California is shown as a peninsula. North America is separated from Asia by a narrow Strait of Anian. Tierra del Fuego is separated from the landmass but pre-dates the discovery New Zealand. New Guinea is attached to Magallanica but partially mapped. To the south a large mythical landmass, Magallanica, spreads across the south encompassing Antarctica and Australasia. The oceans are decorated with numerous ships and sea monsters and there is a large note about Columbus and the discovery of the New World in place of modern day Canada. Copper engraved map from Merian s Theatrum Eurpaeum, dedication to Christopher Columbus, two roundels showing north and south polar regions, ocean decorated with ships and sea monsters, central vertical fold, overall size 385 x 325mm, Frankfurt, 1638 A strong impression of Merian s edition of Blaeu s famous map of the world, also using the Mercator projection and adding German gothic script under the title and within the map. ![]()
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