This video traces the Renaissance revolution in cartography through seven pivotal artifacts. It reveals how artist-geniuses like Da Vinci and Dürer turned art into science, and how a single 1507 map permanently named a continent.
0:00 Opening
1:35 The Nuremberg Chronicle’s World Map
22:44 Battista Agnese’s Portolan Atlases
46:13 The Dieppe School Maps
1:07:28 Gemma Frisius and the Invention of Triangulation
1:27:25 Albrecht Dürer’s 1515 Terrestrial Globe
1:46:32 Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 World Map
2:04:16 Leonardo da Vinci’s Imola Plan
2:23:19 Closing
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