Century16th ; Discoveries ; Geostrategy ; Journey;Trip ; Navigation ; North America ; Trade;Commerce
During the 16thcentury, French kings, thoroughly engaged in the Italian wars, had no real ocean policy, no maritime geostrategy. They came late in 17th century to build a new colonial empire, too late perhaps to give new directions or new impulses
Croatian coastlines on maps and sea charts from 16th to 19th century = Obala hrvatske na pomorskim i geografskim kartama old 16. do 19. stoljeca. (Serbo-Croate
The impact of European overseas discoveries on ship design and construction during the sixteenth century
Century16th ; Discoveries ; History of geography ; Journey;Trip ; Navigation ; Shipbuilding
The major changes for overseas travel were in size and rig, and the result, fully developed by the end of the sixteenth century, was the full-rigged galleon.
Caspar Vopel’s ventures in Sixteenth-Century celestial cartography
Astronomy ; Celestial cartography ; Germany ; History of geography ; Humanism ; Sixteenth Century
The paper concerns the undertakings in celestial cartography of the 16th Cologne cartographer C. Vopel. Copies of his printed celestial globe and of the celestial maps included on his world map are described.
America ; History of cartography ; Italians ; Old map ; Place names ; Portolan ; Sixteenth Century
The anonymous and undated Ms. Egerton 2803, a 16thcentury manuscript portolan atlas, can be found at the British Library. Although the A. cannot completely agree with some early 20th century historians of cartography who believe that Genoese
be determinated because of the variety of his interests and the extraordinary number of sources utilised. The maps representing the most peripheral regions of the 16thcentury ecumene provide a helping hand to establish the date of the relic. The analysis
Historical geography ; Hungary ; Middle Age ; Sixteenth Century ; Spatial organization ; Spatial structure
The paper describes two basic interpretations of regional organisation. With the regional organisation of the Hungarian state completed by the 16thcentury ten geographical regions can be identified in the country - some with complete and others
Early modern maps : to what extent are they metrically accurate ? A contribution to the determination of metrical accuracy in some 16th-century maps of Flanders
Belgium ; Cartographic technique ; Flanders ; History of cartography ; Map ; Modern period ; Old map ; Sixteenth Century
Century 15th ; Century16th ; Century 17th ; Century 18th ; City;Town ; Daily life ; District ; France ; Ile-de-France ; Paris ; Patrimony ; Topography ; Urban history ; Urban society