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Detail of painting "Vaz de Caminha reads to Commander Cabral, Friar Henrique and Master João the letter that will be sent to King Dom Manuel I". It depicts Pedro Álvares Cabral, leader of the Portuguese expediction that discovered the land that would…

This is an image of the world map designed by the 17th-century Dutch cartographer Gerard van Schagen.

This is an image of the world map created by the Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) in 1569.

Territories in the Americas colonized or claimed by European powers by 1750.

Portolan chart by Jorge de Aguiar (1492), the oldest known signed and dated chart of Portuguese origin.

Christopher Columbus portrait

This is an image of the 1529 world map created by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Ribeiro. It is considered the first scientific world map. For the first time, the expanse of the Pacific Ocean and the continuous coast of the Americas were depicted.…

This is an image of the 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemüller, who was a German cartographer. The full title of the maps is Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque lustrationes (The Universal…