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Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art | Fra Mauro World Map, c. 1450 This is an 1804 copy of perhaps the first ‘modern’ world map, made by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro in about 1450. It points south because 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. It shows the Portuguese discoveries in Africa and questioned the authority of medieval and classical sources. The British East India Company commissioned this copy to imply that Britain was heir to the Portuguese empire.

Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art | Fra Mauro World Map, c. 1450

This is an 1804 copy of perhaps the first ‘modern’ world map, made by the Venetian monk Fra Mauro in about 1450. It points south because 15th-century compasses were south-pointing. It shows the Portuguese discoveries in Africa and questioned the authority of medieval and classical sources. The British East India Company commissioned this copy to imply that Britain was heir to the Portuguese empire.

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