AD 1472 · 15th century · Augsburg

T–O map in the first printed Etymologiae

After Isidore of Seville

A small woodcut transmits an inherited tripartite world as a portable printed diagram.

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Circular T–O world diagram printed by Günther Zainer in 1472 — Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Catalogue record

Cartographer	After Isidore of Seville
Publisher	Günther Zainer
Edition	Etymologiae, Augsburg, 1472
Medium	Woodcut in a printed book

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Bibliography

Woodward, David. “Medieval Mappaemundi.” In The History of Cartography, vol. 1, 286–370. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

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