File:Guadeloupe sur planisphère de Cantino 1502.jpg

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English: The Cantino planisphere, completed by un unknown Portuguese cartographer in 1502, is one of the most precious cartographic monuments of all times. It depicts the world, as it became known to the European after the great exploration voyages of the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century to the Americas, Africa and India. It is now kept in the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense, Modena, Italy
Deutsch: Die Cantino-Planisphäre zeigt die den Europäern zu Beginn des 16. Jh. bekannte Welt. Sie wird heute in der Biblioteca Universitaria Estense in Modena, Italien aufbewahrt.
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