Gallery
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Fra Mauro's Africa (south is at the top, with the "Cape of Diab" marking the southern point)
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Part of China
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Spain, Portugal and Northern Africa
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Europe
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The Middle-East
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Depiction of a Chinese junk, an Atlantic ship and a Mediterranean ship in the Fra Mauro map.
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Ships of the world in 1460, according to the Fra Mauro map. Chinese junks are described as very large, three or four-masted ships
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The first mention of Java in a Western map
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William Frazer's 1804 copy. High Resolution Full View.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
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“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
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