Giovanni Leardo

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Planisphere by Leardo (1448) Nordenskiold 1897 Figure 21 LOC Image 76.jpg
Planisphere by Leardo (1448)

Giovanni Leardo was a 15th-century Venetian geographer and cosmographer. Leardo made at least four mappae mundi, of which three survive today. [2]

Leardo's 1442 map is held at the Biblioteca Communale Library in Verona. A 1447 map does not survive, but a 1448 map is held at the Museo Civico at Vicenza. [3] A 1452 map was donated by Archer M. Huntington to the American Geographical Society, and is the oldest world map in the library there. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Nordenskiöld, Adolf Erik (1897). Periplus: An Essay on the Early History of Charts and Sailing Directions. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt. Figure 21.
  2. ↑ Evelyn Edson (2007). The World Map, 1300-1492: The Persistence of Tradition and Transformation. JHU Press. pp. 188–. ISBN   978-0-8018-8589-1.
  3. ↑ Jim Siebold, The Leardo World Maps
  4. ↑ Wright, John Kirtland (1928). The Leardo map of the world: 1452 or 1453, in the collections of the American geographical society. American Geographical Society.



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