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Oronce Fine Map of Antarctica

Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio Creator Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555

The Oronce Fine Map represents one of the earliest and most controversial depictions of a southern polar continent, portraying a massive landmass in the Antarctic region nearly three centuries before the official discovery of Antarctica, and raising profound questions about the sources of early geographic knowledge and the intellectual frameworks through which Renaissance scholars attempted […]