creators of European maps PDF

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What does Brotton mean when he says that the creators of European maps of the
Renaissance were attempting to “reconcile new information with established
classical models of the world”? (p. 156) How can we see that struggle between old
and new knowledge in the Waldseemüller map? Where did the “old” knowledge
come from? What about the “new”?
The Map ‘Universalis Cosmographia’ composed by the German cartographer Martin
Waldseemuller is considered the most expensive map by Brotton as he states that this map is
“America's birth certificate". Brotton states that the European Cartographers of renaissance
aimed at reconciling new information with classical models that established in cartography. The
map by Martin Waldseemuller gives an instance of it. Waldseemuller in framing his world map