In this section we present some historical maps preserved at the Geography Library and the Museum of Geography of the University of Padua, the first museum of its kind in Italy dedicated to Geography. Its patrimony has recently been considerably enriched thanks to the generous donation of Armando Morbiato, thus establishing the Morbiato Collection.
The historical maps were selected and analysed by Chiara Gallanti, research fellow at the DiSSGeA, and by Chiara Forner, trainee and history student. They also undertook the task of cataloguing all of the maps. For any reference or quotation, please attribute the authorship to Chiara Gallanti and Chiara Forner.
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Affricae tabula nova
Sebastian Münster, Cosmographey, das ist Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschaften und fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens, 1588 (1614)
Africa
Giovanni Antonio Magini, Geografia cioè Descrittione universale della Terra., 1596 (1612)
Figura dell’Affrica e sue provincie
Giuseppe Rosaccio, Teatro del cielo e della terra, 1598
TABVLA AFRICÆ IIII
Giuseppe Rosaccio, Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo alessandrino, tradotta di greco nell’idioma volgare italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli, et hora nuouamente ampliata da Gioseffo Rosaccio, 1599
Africa
Philipp Clüver, Introductionis in universam geographiam tam veterem, quam novam libri sex, 1624 (1661)
Tabula geographico-hydrographica
Athanasius Kircher, De onderaardse Wereld (Mundus Subterraneus), 1665 (1682)
Facies altera hemispherii terrestris
Johann Zahn, Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica, 1696
Barbarie, Egypte, Nigritie, Guinee, Nubie, Abissinie
Gilles Robert & Didier Robert de Vaugondy, Nouvel atlas portatif, 1757 (1762)
Africa XXI
Christiaan Andreas Sepp, Nuovo atlante portatile, 1758 (1777; 1785)
L’Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats
Francesco Santini, Atlas universel dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes, 1776
Afrique dressée par M. Bonne
Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, Atlas de toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre dressé pour l’histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes, 1780
L’Africa divisa ne’ suoi principali Stati, di nuova projezione
Antonio Zatta, Atlante novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni e scoperte fatte di più celebri e più recenti geografi, 1778-1785
Carte de l’Afrique
Louis-Charles Desnos, Atlas élémentaire de la géographie contenant les quatres parties du monde, 1784
Arabic 