| Giovanni Antonio Magini | |
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Venice, 1596
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This is Giovanni Magini's modern map of Africa from his edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. It is basically a slightly-reduced version of the D'Anania 1582 map of Africa, which in turn was modeled after Ortelius' 1570 map. The shape of Africa on the map is quite accurate for this period, and considerable geographical details along the African coasts are shown. Giovanni Magini (1555-1617), originally from Padua, was professor of astronomy at the University of Bologna. The finely-detailed copperplate for this map was engraved by Girolamo Porro of Padua (1550-1604). Good Condition. The above map is used as the image on page 170 of our book, The Mapping of Africa: A Cartobibliography of Printed Maps of the African Continent to 1700. Another Example : This Magini plate of Africa had an extremely long life. The map's last known appearance was in Raphael Savonarola's (or as he is commonly known, Lasor a Varea) Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum, published in Padua in 1713. In this work, the map appears set within a page of text.
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