# Cantino planisphere (1502)

- By: anonymous Portuguese (1502)
- Date: 1502
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena, Italy
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cantino_planisphere_(1502).jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/9/9c/Cantino_planisphere_%281502%29.jpg/1920px-Cantino_planisphere_%281502%29.jpg
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The Cantino planisphere, completed by an unknown Portuguese cartographer in 1502, is one of the most precious cartographic documents of all time. It depicts the world, as it became known to the Europeans after the great exploration voyages at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth century to the Americas, Africa and India. It is now kept in the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense, Modena, Italy