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Waldseemüller's Universalis Cosmographia and the naming of America (1507–1516)

1505 - 2003

12 entries

Relaciones Geográficas: the Spanish crown's geographic survey project (1577–1586)

1577 - 1921

12 entries

Mediterranean Portolan Charts and their evolution (13th–16th centuries)

1275 - 1536

12 entries

Joan Blaeu and the rise of Dutch atlases (1596–1672)

1596 - 1673

13 entries

Evolution of navigational instruments: nautical astrolabe, cross-staff, and backstaff (14th–17th centuries)

1342 - 1700

12 entries

Dutch and English East India Company charting programs (1600–1700)

1600 - 1698

12 entries

Dieppe school charts and Franco-English coastal mapping of the New World (1540–1620)

1524 - 1635

14 entries