Monday's Mappa Mundi

Henricus Martellus Germanus was a German geographer and cartographer who lived and worked in Florence from 1480 to 1496. In around 1490 Martellus created a world map. The Martellus world map is said to have been an inspiration for the Waldseemüller map of 1507.

The only surviving copy of the Martellus Map was found in the 1960's and donated to Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.