Giovanni Matteo Contarini (1452-1507) was a cartographer and likely a member of a prominent Venetian family.[1][2] In 1506, Contarini created a world map that Francesco Rosselli later engraved.[2][3] The Contarini-Rosselli map is the first world map to have Columbus' discoveries incorporated.[4][5] It was first discovered in 1922 and currently resides in the British Library.[1] On the map, Contarini refers to himself as "famed in the Ptolemaean art" but no other maps by him have surfaced.[1]
Giovanni Matteo Contarini | |
|---|---|
 The 1506 Contarini–Rosselli map | |
| Born | 1452 |
| Died | 1507 |
| Occupation | Cartographer |
In a titular inscription describing his map, Contarini called the land later called America by Martin Waldseemüller the Antipodes. The inscription, placed to the west of this land said:
The world and all its seas on a plane map, Europe, Lybia [i.e., Africa], Asia, and the Antipodes, the poles and zones and sites of places, the parallels for the climes of the mighty globe, lo! Giovanni Matteo Contarini, famed in the Ptolemæan art, has compiled and marked it out. Whither away? Stay, traveller, and behold new nations and a new-found world.[6]
Contarini father was Marco Contarini of San Cassiano.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Contarini/Roselli World Map" (PDF). MyOldMaps.com. n.d. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- ^ a b c Armstrong, Lilian (1996). "Benedetto Bordon, "Miniator", and Cartography in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice". Imago Mundi. 48: 65–92. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- ^ Baratono, Diego; Claudio, Piani (2014). LEONARDO ROMBAI: IL GLOBO DI UOVA DI STRUZZO DEL 1504 CIRCA SCOPERTO E STUDIATO DA STEFAAN MISSINNE. CENTRO ITALIANO PER GLI STUDI STORICO-GEOGRAFICI GEOSTORIE BOLLETTINO E NOTIZIARIO.
- ^ David Woodward, ed. (1987). cartography in the european renaissance: Volume 3 (Part 1). University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "First known printed world map showing America". British Library. n.d. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
- ^ “Orbem terrarum in planam et maria omnia mappam Europam Lybiam atque Asiam Antipodesque redegit distinxitque polos zonasque situs locorum atque paralelos ad magna climata mundi Janus Matheus Ptolomaea inclytus arte En Contarenus: Quo pergis? Siste viator Atque novas specta gentes orbemque recentem”; Robert J. King, “The Antipodes on Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map”, The Globe, no.91, 2022, pp. 43-60.
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