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In a detailed and commanding woodcut, Dürer records the arrival in 1515 of the first rhinoceros in Europe since the third century A.D. (above). Although Dürer's depiction is captivating, it is not faithful to nature, and it had a profound impact on…

Carta Marina and a description of the northern lands: and the wonderful things contained in them, carefully elaborated in the year 1539

Informative annotations explain some natural phenomena in ancient Chinese can be found on the map. For example, the six elliptical text boxes around the two hemispheres, here is one of them which explains AIR.

The map consists of two hemispheres showing the geographical regions as they were known in the 17th Century. Here are some examples mainly focus on the Skandinavisk area. Here you can see the comparison between Kunyu Quantu and Carta Marina.

The map contains various illustrations of creatures drew referring to Konr Gessner’s Historia Animalium published in 16th Century. Most of them were created with combination of myth and reality. Here are some examples.

A complete geographical map (wall map) of the world which divided into two hemipheres, Western hemisphere and Eastern hemisphere. The title reads from right to left across both maps. According to Chinese worldview during the 17th century, North and…