Giacomo Gastaldi, Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell’ Africa (Venice, 1564) Cartographer_Gerard Mercator Bucknell University

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Plate 166

Like the Chuck-will’s-widow

Humboldt later complained that Pike had plagiarized his map in preparing Pike’s own account of his explorations

Giacomo Gastaldi, Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dell’ Africa (Venice, 1564) Cartographer_Gerard Mercator Bucknell UniversityGiacomo Gastaldi (ca. 15001566)Il disegno della geografia moderna de tutta la parte dellAfrica Venice: Fabio Licinio, 1564First edition, first state Probably the single most important and influential map of Africa of the sixteenth century (Betz) Giacomo Gastaldis large scale wall map of Africa, engraved and published by Fabio Licinio, is a cornerstone of Renaissance cartography. It synthesizes classical geography with information from sixteenth