Actually, this is the true route of the Niger River, but that fact will not be confirmed until the Lander brothersвЂ™ expedition in 1830. One of the intriguing aspects of this map is the loop of the Senegal River, which is shown entering the ocean in todayвЂ™s Gulf of Guinea. A simplified caravel, similar to those used by the Portuguese (and Columbus), sails off the southern coast. Few coastal towns are noted, and there is no Madagascar yet.

Several kingdoms are noted, including that of the legendary Prester John, as well as вЂњMeroГ«,вЂќ the mythical tombs of the Nubian kings. The source of the Nile lies in two lakes fed by waters from the fabled Mountains of the Moon, graphically presented as small brown mounds. The Niger River begins and ends in lakes. The map of Africa contains many interesting-if not curious- features: a one-eyed giant seated over Nigeria and Cameroon, representing the mythical tribe of the вЂњMonoculiвЂќ a dense forest located in todayвЂ™s Sahara Desert and an elephant filling southern Africa. MГјnster was the first mapmaker to print separate maps of the four then known continents (Europe, Africa, Asia, America). By soliciting descriptions and maps from German scholars and foreigners, he was able over time to include up-to-date information in the various editions of his atlases, becoming the most influential cartographer of the mid-16th century. MГјnster was a professor of Hebrew at Heidelberg and then at Basel, where he settled in 1529 and later died of the plague. Because it was issued with some variations in both of MГјnsterвЂ™s very popular works, Geographia (1540-1552) and Cosmographia (1544-1628), the map is difficult to date precisely.

The earliest obtainable map of the whole continent of Africa. From MГјnsterвЂ™s Cosmographia uniuersalis (Basel, 1554). Territories are numbered and referenced on the m.вЂњTotius AfricГ¦ tabula, & descriptio uniuersalis, etiam ultra PtolemГ¦i limites extensa.вЂќ Woodcut map, with added color, 26 x 35 cm.

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